Party of Three

By: Sandy Lowe

Narrated by: Lori Prince

Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins

Publisher's Summary

Three friends are in for for a wild night at billionaire heiress Eleanor McGregor's 25th birthday party. Love, lust, and doing the right thing, even when it hurts, turn the evening into one that will change their lives forever.

Sarah Donovan just wants to have fun. After a failed relationship and a string of bad first dates leave her moping into her Cosmo, a hot and steamy one-night stand with a perfect stranger is just what she needs to feel desirable again.

Avery Anders can't seem to forget the long-ago, accidental kiss with the one woman she couldn't have, her friend's little sister. When they meet again the flame is hotter than ever, and temptation may be too much to resist.

Kaitlyn Forrester was a hopeless romantic until the love of her life walked out on her. Can she learn to forgive when her high school sweetheart returns to town looking to mend her broken heart?

©2019 Sandy Lowe (P)2019 Bold Strokes Books Inc

Terrific erotica featuring friends & their friends

“Party of Three” intrigued me for a couple reasons. First, this is Lori Prince narrating lesfic erotica, not just romance. Yes, I know…that alone is reason to get this audiobook!

A second reason is that I was in the middle of the interesting lesfic Pine Cone Romance series of three books. The Pine Cone series presents the stories of three different couples as events occur simultaneously in their lives. Each of the stories (Take My Hand, Take a Chance & Take Your Time) focuses on a different couple, and interestingly, each book was written by a different author. Happily, the same narrator was used for all three books so the voices were the same throughout the series.

At this point you may be wondering if I’m going to review “Party of Three”. Yes, of course I am. But here’s the interesting difference between PoT (sorry, couldn’t resist) and Pine Cone. In Pot, we also have three different couples interacting as a group, but here we have the stories unfolding sequentially instead of revisiting the same events through different perspectives.

I hope that makes sense. It was definitely enjoyable experiencing the two different methods of storytelling.

With specific regards to “Party of Three” - wow! Lori Prince needs to narrate more lesfic erotica, and new (for me) author Sandy Lowe needs to write more!!

The first couple presents recently dumped MC Sara and hot butch chef Ryan. Both are very likable and they have terrific chemistry. The sex is HOT, and their discussion of sex is just as fun!

The next couple, Spencer and Avery, are also both very likable. Spencer is a virgin who is studying to be a sex therapist, and she basically takes control to seduce Avery, who has loved her since….oh…forever!

Caitlin and Beck are the last of the three stories. I found this couple the least believable. I just couldn’t feel Caitlin’s intense interest in a woman who had unceremoniously dumped her a decade ago. Second chance stories abound these days, and they’re rarely my favorite trope, so YMMV.

I evaluate the situations as a HFM for Sara and Ryan, HEA for Avery and Spencer, and HEA for Caitlin and Beck. Their mutual “friend” Elenor is the glue that brought them back together, and she has some rather new adventures awaiting her….I hope!

5* for “Party of Three”; what a fun story and terrific narration!

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

My rating and my review was not in anyway affected by my having been provided a review copy.

Wow. What a listen

One party.
Three friends.
One heck of a read.

This is a steamy read following three friends as they sort out their love lives in short order. Writing is excellent, scenes are very hot, and narration is an absolute 100.

Highly recommended

Book full of hotness 🔥

This audiobook is about 3 friends heading over to a party that changes their lives in ways that were unexpected. It’s really made up of short erotica stories that turned out to be quite titillating...Wowza Each story is it’s own tale and each story adds its own allure and intrigue. The author does a wonderful job with finding a different way of reaching the sensual side of us all and allowing us to see the delicious freedom of erotic acts of desire... If I could replace my 5 stars ⭐️ with 5 flames of hotness 🔥 I would!

Steamy&Captivating

Loved it. All three stories were so good I listened to the whole book without stopping.
Although semi-unrealistic to be happening all in one night, it's worth the listen with the fantastic narration by Lori Prince.
Every story was worth listening to on repeat.
Hot, Hot, Hot.

Love can be very sexy

This book could qualify as a 1930’s madcap romance filled with 2020’s sex. Follow three delectable ladies as they resolve the problems created by romantic misadventures and tragedies experienced in their formative teenage years. I guarantee that you will laugh and maybe cry.
The sex is frequent, hot, serious and fun. The narrator dealt with the challenge of multiple characters well.

The first 35% is great, then it all unravels

The description owns exactly what this book is: the tale of a sex-filled night that basically splinters off into three separate stories once the three main characters, who are friends, get to the party where it all goes down. It had potential to be great fun.

The first story (between the chef and the baker) was both interesting plot-wise and hot hot HOT. It set me up to hope the stories for the other two main characters would be just as good.

Alas, they’re not. The rest of the book suffers from meandering, never-ending subplots involving Eleanor (the unofficial fourth friend who is insufferable and whose drama overtakes *hours* of the story). The constant meanderings rather than a tight focus on the central romances ultimately makes it really hard to care about the HEA once the two lovers finally get away from the group and get down. The magic of the build-up is lost, and all you’re left with are two really immature people who say a lot of lovey dovey words at each other and then have sex.

You have to admire the author’s determination to weave everyone together into one intersecting narrative, but it’s at the expense of the love stories. And I get that all the increasing outrageous happenings are supposed to be funny (and authors like Robin Alexander can pull that kind of thing off) but for me this writer misses the mark.

However, thank the mercies for good narrators! for Lori Prince was a pro as always! She made the experience better.

A must read

OMG the threesome scene in the coat closet had me dying of laughter. This was my first book of Sandy Lowe and what an introduction! Sex scenes were steamy, the humor was outstanding, I was dying of laughter!!! and all the credit had to be given to the writer ad the narrator!!! Lori Prince was AMAZING and made the story so real I felt I was watching the whole thing!!! One of my favorite books now!!

Sizzling hot...

If you're looking for sizzling hot romance, look no further. Lori Prince's narration is just perfect.

Three friends, three erotic encounters

The premise is that three friends go to a big 25th birthday bash for a billionaire heiress and have three separate erotic encounters. Each are basically their own separate story. I didn't read the book first so experienced this only via audio. I found one of the encounters somewhat titillating but the others were just so-so for me. I was trying to determine if that was because of the narration or the words themselves. Lori Prince is a favorite narrator of many and this was my first listen to one of her works. There are six different characters she needed to voice and that's certainly not easy. I think I may have gotten more out of it if I'd just read the book instead. Going to try a physical book by this author next time. I think we all have certain voice types that appeal to us and have found that narrators with low registered voices appeal to me most. I started and stopped this audiobook three times because the narrator provided free audio codes and I wanted to give it a fair listen. I can't say it was my cup of tea - though I do enjoy erotica - but I've seen reviews by others who enjoyed it a lot. Probably just a personal preference.

Wow

Narration is definitely on point. It’s a fantastic story that takes place all in one day. Looking for something beyond steamy this is definitely it.

Sexy and fun and perfect narration

Lori Prince narrating Sandy Lowe is a match made in heaven. I think I liked Party of Three even better as an audiobook than when I read it. Actually, I don’t think, I know I did, which is why I’m upgrading it from 4* to 5*. Prince has a gift for voicing ironic and self-deprecating inner thoughts and there are plenty of those in this story. She’s also excellent at sexy scenes, and there are plenty of those too. Another thing I love with Lori Prince is that you always know who’s talking, even when, like here, there are sometimes many characters, most of them women. As steamy as they are, the stories told in Party of Three are also unexpectedly romantic. One evening, three friends, three love stories. And serious fun.

Wow!

The best book I have listened to in a long time, Lori Prince really gives you each character, hope for more like this from Sandy Lowe!!

Great Narration

Lori Prince did a fantastic job with the narration of this book, found it easy to follow and each voice was indivual.