Sinful Urges

A Five Points Novel

By: Clarissa Bright

Narrated by: Aleksander Papanastasopoulos, Veronica Eastwood

Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

A priest, a psychiatrist, and a demon hunter walk into a gas station.

This is where things get a little weird.

Because when they kidnap the beautiful, smart, witty, musically talented gas station attendant, aka moi, the next thing I know, I'm waking up tied to a bed and surrounded by the hottest men I've ever seen.

I'm sorry, did you think this was a joke?

Because I'm not laughing.

Not when this trio of gorgeous assholes tells me I'm possessed. Especially not when they tell me they're going to exorcise me. If there's a punchline, it's that this is only the beginning. And after they're done with me, my life will never be the same.

It turns out when a demon's forced out of your body, it leaves something behind. Something that will change you forever. Something that opens the door for the most sinful dreams I've ever had in my life. Dreams about a man I've never seen before, but he does things to me I can't explain. I don't know what's happening to me. The only people who can tell me are the ones who did this to me. But I can't stay away, even if every answer we find leads to even more questions. I need help. I need salvation. I need protection.

I need my exorcists.

To save me from these sinful urges...

...and to save me from myself.

©2022 Clarissa Bright (P)2023 Clarissa Bright

Exorcism Romance

This book was just ok for me. I enjoyed the story and think it could’ve been really interesting. It ended in a cliffhanger which I’m ok with but it felt unfinished at the cliffhanger.

I personally didn’t connect with the narrators and couldn’t really get into it.

Aggravating

Story starts out good and has potential but the FMC constantly has stupid reason for going from fine and happy to hating and accusing the MMCs of lying and being horrible, this wasn’t required and is not even believable. Didn’t need these sudden bursts of hatred to create drama, it’s more unbelievable and aggravating than suspenseful and interesting. The story would have been a lot better if these bursts of untimed and unneeded drama were left out.

Eh…unique story concept, bad narration

*received a free copy for an honest review*

I liked the unique plot line. It was different than what I’ve read before, but seemed to progress a bit slow. I will probably finish the series on ebook, but I can’t listen to the narrators again. I almost DNF’d, but said I would listen to it. The female voice was decent when voicing the mfc, but the secondary female voices were pretty obnoxious, almost Valley Girl like. The male voice I really struggled to even listen too. It was like he was simply reading the book, but not telling the story and it was hard to tell the difference between the various male characters. The priest supposedly has an accent of some kind, but it wasn’t consistent and sometimes sounded a little Irish and sometimes a little Hispanic. Spice level was low IMO. Perhaps it will increase as the series progresses. I do love the fact that it was Duet Narration. Different narrators would make a huge difference.

Different

Enjoyable listen, different twist on possession. Look forward to more and getting more of the story.

3 star listen

Ok I think I prefer the other series from this author but in saying that this 100 percent has potential. I like the premise of this storyline and I did find the humour entertaining. I just feel like nothing really happened in this book. I enjoyed the narration, I don’t th8nk I’d heard the male narrator before and he worked in well with this female narrator. I was gifted this audio a wee while ago and got around to this today. I’d continue the series once it’s on audio. I’d like to see the world building reach its potential.

I think I will eyeball read the rest of the series

I really like the story concept and it feels original which is really awesome. I’m looking forward to seeing where this goes.
Female narration is good, except when she does voices for other females. The others all sound like traditional valley girls with different pitches. But on her own I enjoy her voice. The male narrator…just not good at all. He somehow sounds really old and really young all at once. His voice doesn’t make me think of three attractive men. When he voices the priest he seems to slip in and out of random accents sometimes leaning Irish. Just really cringey most of the time.
Again, I really enjoyed the story, just most specifically didn’t enjoy the male narrator

When duet narration goes horribly wrong

I really wanted to like this audible. The story has so much potential, but the male narration had me hitting stop.
I went so far as to check to see if this was a real person and not AI. I'm still not convinced.
Veronica Eastwood did a pretty decent job. Unfortunately, both the story and her performance were overshadowed by just how bad the male voice is.
Save the credit and eyeball this one if you're still interested.

Good story

I enjoyed the story, but the narration was hard to get through, I really can't figure out if the male narrator is a real person his voice is so robotic. The female narrator, however, did a great job.

Narration definitely wasn’t for me

This is my first listen of this author and to be honest I don’t know if I will listen or read anything from them in the future. This book did not convince me unfortunately, the narration I think made the story worse (normally I don’t encounter those kind of audiobooks but this one was really hard to get through).

So I think the concept is good. I was intrigued, I gave it a shot, but the execution was subpar. First with the story, I think the guys for me were fine, I was getting confused when some were called by their last name and some by their first so I thought there were 4 guys instead of 3 haha. I also thought it weird there were more detailed physical descriptions far into the book randomly for some of the guys. I really really did not like the FMC, she irked me with her decisions and was not redeemable. She kept reverting back, the inner monologue got super repetitive. Some things she was sticking to in her arguments and being hurt didnt make sense in that moment. There was a lack of connection with some scenes/details given, like some were superfluous and didn’t tie in with the overall story or we missed some keys details and I had to re-listen to the chapter to figure out what was going on.

Narration was one of the worst I have ever listened to. I usually can get through this length of an audiobook in 2 days, it took me almost 6 days because I had to force myself to listen to it. I was not motivated to continue, I just listened to see how things ended (didnt realize at the time it was a series). The female narrator was so monotone, so lifeless in her performance, I couldnt stay engaged/couldnt connect with her. I listened a 1.4-1.5X and that didnt even help. She felt like a robot and lacked a ton of the emotions needed in this performance. The male narrator was better but his random accents for some of the guys wasn’t consistent, I was getting confused who was talking when. I am glad it was duet but it still was not a great experience. It has a lot of potential, but execution was just not there for me (writing or narrating).

Interesting!

I wasn’t a fan of the narrators. The story was very intriguing and I can’t wait to see where this all goes. The trio of exorc!sts, plus a goth musician are a very interesting group of people and I can easily see this going into RH territory. 🖤 the pace was a little slow and I can’t help but think that different narrators would help the story.