Raze

Riven, Book 3

By: Roan Parrish

Narrated by: Kirt Graves, Tor Thom

Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's Summary

Sometimes the walls we build to save ourselves have to come tumbling down.

For the last 10 years, Huey has built his life around his sobriety. If that means he doesn't give a damn about finding love or companionship for himself, well, it's probably better that way. After all, the last thing he wants is to hurt anyone else. Until Felix Rainey walks into his bar, fresh-faced, unbearably sweet - and, for some reason Huey can't fathom, interested in him.

As the eldest of five kids, Felix Rainey spent his childhood cooking dinner, checking homework, and working after-school jobs. Now in his twenties, he's still scrambling to make ends meet and wondering what the hell he's doing with his life. When he meets Huey, he's intimidated...and enamored. Huey's strong and confident, he owns his own business-hell, he's friends with rock stars. What could he ever see in Felix?

As Huey and Felix get closer, the spark catches and soon they can't get enough of each other. But Huey's worked hard to avoid intimacy, and Felix threatens his carefully constructed defenses. Huey realizes he needs to change if he wants to truly put his past behind him-and build a future with Felix.

Contains mature themes.

©2019 Roan Parrish (P)2019 Tantor

Good end to the series

I love and own every book in this series and I am here for Huey and Felix. Sweet story about to relisten to Riven and Rend

Tor Is an Aural Drink of Iced Tea!

Tor, Tor, Tor! My, my... what your voice does to me! His voice reaches into my very soul and makes everything right. Why do I constantly blush when listening?

Loved the story. New to me author.

New to Kirt Graves. Strong performance. Beautiful voice.

Loved it ❤️

I just wrote a lengthy review that the Audible interface just erased. *Sigh... Just read the book. Or listen to the audio. It's seriously amazing and deserving of your time.

3.5 stars rounding down

For all that I loved it the first time I listened to it, this time not so much.

Felix was going above and beyond for his family and didn't deserve what Sofia put him through but for all the right he was, he was indecisive and never thought what he wanted to do if he could, so there were times that he was whiny.

Huey in his fight against his addiction he had his life structured and planned and almost completely devoid of feelings and LIFE! Felix blew through all that and brought him back to life. But I have to say some times I just didn't have the patience with his uncommunicativeness.

Both narrators did a really good job with emotions and voice nuances although Tor Thom's Caleb was a little over the top.

A book that really didn't need to happen

I love Roan Parrish but this story would have been better left unwritten. Felix was a whiney, bratty, immature kid, 25 going on 16. Huey wasn't bad and had the most character depth but I really didn't see any chemistry between them. The worst part wad that neither of them figured anything out for themselves. Every time there was a struggle someone would show up and magically give them all the wisdom they needed. Half the time that magic wise person was a complete stranger! It was sloppy and lazy storytelling.
The second worst was the complete lack of respect for previous stories' voices and accents. Thom made Caleb's voice highly effiminant and camp and that... Was just wrong. There had been none of that before. I had to pretend it was a different Caleb just to struggle through it.

KIRT GRAVES SHOULD HAVE PERFORMED SOLO!!

The story is pretty good. It's very relationship based with lots of feels. Not much else going on. What almost ruined the story for me though was Tor Thom's narration. His constant intake of breath was irritating and his performance was robotic. Kirt Graves on the other hand was more than excellent. He should have done this audio SOLO!!! He gave each character a very distinctive voice. A voice that matched their personalities.
The audio needs to be redone. I'm seriously considering returning this one, because I don't see myself listening to it again.

Loved

This isn’t a fast pace lots of suspense drama type of book but it had me tingling with more feels than I’ve gotten from a book in a long time.

Not a huge Tor Thom fan, more because of his secondary character voices but adore Kirt Graves.

So far I'm not a fan of Tor Thom

This was so, so good!
It took me awhile to get into this because I was really nervous about the entire “sobriety” thing that is a recurring theme in the series but – though it is definitely a main theme – it almost took a back seat to the really sweet and awkward romance between these two totally mismatched heroes.

I loved that Felix had to really dig deep and find his own happiness and how Huey had to admit his “patterns” were no longer helpful.

The heat is just right – a fair amount of steam but this is really more about the feels.

Highly recommended! I think it’s best when read as part of the series but it can absolutely stand on its own.

5 of 5 stars

Audio

I really enjoyed Kirt Graves’ part of this narration, he does a nice job as Felix – high strung and energetic. I wasn’t a huge fan of Tor Thom. On the one hand he did fit Huey but it was harder to listen to him because I felt like I wanted him to be less clunky in my ear and his breathing bothered me.

In any case, it’s a wonderful way to experience this story.

4 of 5 stars

Overall 4.5 of 5 stars