Some Kind of Monster

Friends with the Monsters, Book 2

De: Albany Walker

Narrado por: Vanessa Moyen, Lucas Webley

Naughty girls need love too.

A beautiful monster, that’s what I am. My packaging is just a little nicer than the creatures you hear about dwelling in your closet. With three baddies for my mates, things are definitely getting interesting. I think I’ve even convinced them not to kill each other.

But I have a new purpose, someone is hurting our kind. Stealing Charmed magic in arcane rituals that leave my friends drained and dead, and I won’t allow it. It’s time for them to find out why even the Monsters fear me. I am the bad guy.

Companion novel to Friends with the Monster, this is an RH story with adult themes not recommended for those under 18.

©2020 Rhonda Beyer (P)2020 Rhonda Beyer

Love this book! Can’t get enough of Lucas Webley’s voice.

Great book and a nice ending to boot.
I couldn’t wait to get this audiobook every since I read the book.
Absolutely love that it is a actual real dual narration. Lucas Webley’s voice is such a dream. I can listen to anything he narrators. Vanessa did a awesome job too. Hope for more new audiobooks from Albany Walker.

Less raunchy more story

There is definitely less Sex and more story but it's enjoyable. Kinda feels like a sequel for the sake of sequel. I think Albany did a decent job of wrapping up the stories.

Great narrators!

Book two in this duet is spicier than it’s predecessor and a very satisfying listen. I really like the duet narration. Both narrators did an excellent job bringing the story to life. Overall, the duet is worth the credits.

Fantastic!!

Absolutely loved this book and the author. The narrator’s were amazing, and telling the story. A must READ!!

unique world

i love how unique the characters and their powers are. the story is interesting, my only gripe is the spice seems excessive at times feels forced in.

Story, writing, content? V. good. Reader? It HURT.

This sequel was not as good as the first, but it continued the trend of "just about every slightly to moderately kinky thing you might know about", but versus many, many other writers this one pulls it off pretty well in both stories - and the actual story management and world are better done than most I've encountered in this theme/genre.

So, here's the thing. I believe this author writes and develops plot well. The dialogue, minus the section all this genre seems to have where the main character's, well, /character/ changes inexplicably to be whinier and suddenly seems rather stupid in a way she wasn't before (and eventually, mostly, stops being so dumb a little later, this case), is well done.

UNTIL YOU HEAR THE READERS. I have a very wide tolerance for reading styles, when the story is good enough. I got through one of my all time favorite novels with the guy reading the female MC's name totally wrong the entire 32 hours and I made it through.

A bad reader will take a great story and flatten it into obvious stereotypes and BS they have internalized, especially about women in my experience, because that's just how they assume any person (woman) would behave, not understanding the character or their sense of self and clearly not making an attempt to do so.

To be fair, Vanessa Moyen was a better reader, even good perhaps, but not more than good. If it were only her, I wouldn't be so utterly disappointed. She's the only reason there are two stars.

Lucas Webley, on the other hand...

This is written in a way where I would call it pretty close to a feminist novel, more so than most in this genre who make the attempt to be. Webley manages to make everything he says from the MC's POV whiny, and the tone is basically never what seems congruent with the way the character is read. He randomly began pronouncing female characters names incorrectly, was seemingly incapable of a woman saying anything in a tone that wasn't either an attempt at sultry or as if she was at best simple and often as if dumb, even when it makes zero sense with the dialogue or story or context up until said point, or even within the scene, and in what I find awful when it is chronic and not the periodic error: he will change voices mid dialogue because he realizes he started as a character voice for some other character...WHEN he corrects it at all.

I bought the newest novel by Walker, and Webley is still one of the narrators. I am desperately hoping he has improved, because if he hasn't I'll likely have to give up this author, which is a disappointment because so far they're in my top 3, possibly top 2 for story, world building, dialogue, interest, originality, and sex, out of the dozen or so authors I've read in the supernatural reverse harem style at this point. I don't have time to sit with a physical (digital) written book often, so it will truly be sad to me if he hasn't improved. I'm willing to offer a lot of leeway for growth, I just hope he has gotten better, because it sucks to lose out on a good author because of a disappointing and uninvested reader.

Fabulous

This book had me pretending to be a night owl. Amazing characters that were well written and has depth and personality. Narration was flawless as well.

amazing!

I listened to book one and this one. it was amazing and honestly I could stop reading. The writer's detail is on point. I can't wait for the next book!

Great book

Great book but wished they would have continued it sad to let them go the one thing I didn’t like is when the made the grim reaper be dum like he would not know a few things other then that I liked it

Meh

Story was just meh. Like you are waiting for something epic to happen and it just doesn’t. And it was a really unique idea that I wanted to enjoy