Teach Me

By: Sloan Johnson

Narrated by: Christopher Rain

Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins

Publisher's Summary

Two words stripped Austin Pritchard of the privileged life he was used to. The moment he uttered the words "I'm gay," he realized there is no such thing as unconditional love. Now he's gone from traveling the world with his family to living on the streets, trying to figure out how he's going to stay in school.

A chance opportunity changes everything. Austin impresses the foreman and lands a job, but even more, he catches the eye of David Becker, who is determined to teach him that true love doesn't come with strings.

The only thing David had as a child was love. His family struggled to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads. That has driven him to stay focused on his goals, become a tenured professor at a university, and save enough money to build a home of his own. It's not until he sees an insecure college student working on his new house that he realizes he hasn't planned on someone to share his life with. He's about to learn that everything he's already accomplished is nothing compared to the task of making Austin see that he is worthy of love.

©2014 Sloan Johnson (P)2015 Sloan Johnson

Loving Oneself...

This is a tale about learning to see the true you and that sometimes you need a bit of help. David and Austin's story reminds us that overcoming obstacles can happen if you just get out of your own way. Thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend...

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Not really feeling it

The story isnt bad. Its just not really good either. I dont Think this author is for me since i do not Seem to get a feel for his characters. It is just listening to a good story about People that i do not care about. But maybe it is just me - i like the books where the MCs are People u miss when u finish and this one i just missing that "extra" something. Didnt like the narrator either.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Narration was wooden & stiff; mispronounced words

It was painful to listen to this book. The story was okay, but the narration was wooden and stiff. I had to speed it up to 1.5x to make it somewhat bearable. Words were mispronounced and there was no cadence or flow in the reading. I will not listen to anymore from this narrator, but would read more from the author's kindle unlimited selection.

Amazing Story

What did you love best about Teach Me?

The storyline kept you intrigued throughout

What other book might you compare Teach Me to and why?

Not really any it had such a unique quality about it I can't compare

Have you listened to any of Christopher Rain’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

This one was a first and I have since downloaded others because he did such a great job

If you could rename Teach Me, what would you call it?

Nothing it was perfect

Any additional comments?

Very well written and easy to follow that characters grabbed you in and didn't let go. To say I lost sleep listening is an understatement I loved it and will recommend it to everyone. The narrator has done a wonderful job. It was well versed and easy flow not choppy like others I have listened to

worst narration ever

This writing appears to be mediocre, but it is hard to tell because the narration is so very, very poor. There is the usual mispronunciation of words, which I have come to expect, but that is not nearly so irritating as it usually is because this narration is completely devoid of tone, characterization, and expression. It could have been read by computer.

There is no indication that the narrator is actually reading the words in any sequence as the emphasis is often on the wrong word in sentences, and the the pauses between sentences so short, including between the words of two different characters in dialogue, that they are delivered as a long monologue. The listener has to try and retrospectively piece back together what the author might have intended.

There is no attempt to differentiate between the voices/accents of the two main characters, despite being of different generations and from different parts of the USA, and neither of them are given any expression. It's very fortunate the author begins each chapter by telling us the POV, otherwise you would never know.

I can't finish the book, so I don't know how good the story ends up being. This will be the first book I have returned to Audible.

1 of 2 people found this review helpful

Fabulous

This was a story that captivated from chapter 1 and kept me ther all THE WAY THROUGH.
Thank you for the fabulous story and for such great characters

Even non romance readers will love it!

I'm not normally a romance reader, so I was a little skeptical at first. But I had a friend recommend Sloan Johnson's books. Then I noticed Teach Me was available for audiobook.

I was a huge fan of how Sloan portrayed Austin's world being on the streets.

And why David saw something in Austin. She had reasons for their actions and I couldn't get enough. Now I noticed that Dance with Destiny is available, I have not read it or any other of Sloan's work before this one but I will now. And any future books Christopher Rain produces.

Thank you.

0 of 1 people found this review helpful

A must listen, will be a repeat customer

I loved reading Teach Me and when I found out that it was available for audible I had to buy it! The narrator Christopher Rain portrayed Austin and David's characters exactly how I I hoped they would be.

I also bought Dance with Destiny, with my free subscription free audiobook, which is another Christopher Rain narration and written by Sloan Johnson. Loved it and will continue to buy their audiobooks.

0 of 1 people found this review helpful

yummy

this was tasty... so yummy and interesting and sexy.. it was fun and made me smile. i enjoyed the characters and the narrator did a good job. i liked it

Love the story

As with Godsend by the same author, I have read this book a few times and always loved it. While I felt the narrator was appropriately sombre in Godsend, it didn't work well here. Christopher Rain did use a range of voices for secondary characters, but was decidedly monotone for both main characters. I felt quite low at times listening to this rendition, while I didn't when reading the book.

as good as the ebook

The story is always 4 or 5 stars, because if I wouldn't like the story as ebook, I wouldn't listen to the audiobook.

The performance from the narrator is also very important for me. I can't listen to a lot, because my English as a non-native-speaker isn't so perfect to follow a whole story over hours, when the narrator speaks too fast or too sloppy. Normally I have to SEE the person, who is talking to me in English. It took me a little bit, to come into the narrator, but at the end, it worked. I only have to take a few breaks between. I'm just not yet finish with the book, but I listen enough to give a review.

PLEASE READ MY RATING SYSTEM!!!

To my ratings:

5* - very very good
it's like an A+

4* - very good and will be often re-listening
it's like an A

3* - it's more then a one-time-listening.
it's like a B

Great, would recommend for the story.

Story kept me engaged to the end. I wasn't a fan of the performance though.