The Duets: A Contemporary Romance Box Set

By: Meghan Quinn

Narrated by: Joe Arden, Maxine Mitchell

Length: 31 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

Gripping, heart-stopping, and an incredibly epic journey with a twist you'll never see coming. USA Today best-selling author Meghan Quinn brings you a modern take on an old-fashioned romance that will leave you breathless and wanting more.

This isn’t a story about a love triangle. There is no triangle involved.

This isn’t a story about an accidental pregnancy. Although having a baby with her...I would.

This isn’t a story about lies and deception, even though at times I’ve lied to myself.

No, this is my story.

A story about sacrifice.

A story about a man who fell in love with the wrong girl.

A story I wish I never had to tell.

I learned a long damn time ago, the only way to achieve my dreams was to avoid distractions - at any cost.

But all it took was one single night. One night and my entire life...changed.

One night had me colliding head first with the biggest distraction of my life: Rory Oaks. Smart. Charming. Beautiful. Rory changed everything.

Quickly, my one-track mind, my goals started to bend.

Each kiss faded decade-long dreams.

And with one single interaction, I flew off course.

Box set of four books

The Upside of Falling

The Downside of Love

The Left Side of Perfect

The Right Side of Forever

©2020 Meghan Quinn (P)2020 Meghan Quinn

Great Book

This was one roller coaster ride of emotions!! Great read!!This was a very well written book it brought me to feel every emotion. Every character in the book had an emotional trauma and great chemistry between each other . It had a beautiful HEA!! And the novella at the end was a nice treat!! All the narrators did an outstanding job!!

A good Ugly cry

April’s fools day: This is not a joke and I just finished these 4 books last week! You got me good, Meghan Quinn, on these books!!! Soul crushing, heart-aching, and happy tears feelings. I am emotionally wreaked and all thanks to great writing & best performance/narration with Joe Arden & Maxine Mitchell. Oh, my goodness!!!! Seriously!!!!

The Duets Box Set is two sets of friends to lovers military romances. One reviewer said, “These breathtaking stories will make you laugh, cry, and swoon as you become invested in these characters and cheer for their HEA.”

Can you say emotional rollercoaster?

These stories, just as I have come to expect from Meghan Quinn, were wonderfully written. Add Joe Arden and Maxine Mitchell to the mix, and yeah, I LOL'd, bawled my eyes out, got mad AF, fanned myself more than once, and simply fell in love with these characters. The whole series is most definitely located high on my favorites.

Emotional, Passionate, Intense

Meghan Quinn has outdone herself with The Duets. This book is actually 4 stories in one. The Upside of Falling, The Downside of Love, The Left Side of Perfect, and The Right Side of Forever. Joe Arden and Maxine Mitchell are remarkable bringing the characters to life with their voices. They have the perfect chemistry that convey's the life issues of angst, hope, heartache, healing and love. I loved the little details that the author included the book from the setting of Colorado Springs to letters with with perfume that added such layers to the story. The friendships were amazing. The imagery really added to my enjoyment. There were some surprises I wasn't expecting either. This is an awesome listen that spans time and relationships. I loved the ALC of this book and did not let it influence my opinion.

loved it

I really enjoyed reading this author.  I look forward to reading more books by this author in the near future.

✫✫ 4 Stars ✫✫

I have to start this review off by saying I am so glad I listened to these books as a set. I would have gone crazy with the cliffhangers and the waiting. This was my first Meghan Quinn and If I am honest when book 1 ended I was unsure if there would be any more in my future but man she really did a great job and pulling me in, making me fall in love, breaking my heart, twisting up everything I thought I wanted and starting all over again. In the end she seriously did a great job pulling this all together. I loved that it felt like we got to really watch these characters grow so much over the years and become great people with beautiful lives ahead of them even if the road was hard won. With the twists in these stories this could have been very high drama and honestly it wasn't as much as I thought it would be. Yes there is some but the characters genuinely reacted and then stopped to think, then they acted like adults and handled everything with maturity and I seriously loved that. In the end I really liked these stories and will be listening to more books by Meghan Quinn!

The narration was good. When book 1 started I wasn't sure if the casting really fit for 20-ish characters but before book 1 was over I forgot all about that or who was even narrating which is great narration to me because they became the characters.

At the end of this Duet Series we also get a bonus, Mr. Klein is Fine which is part of the Stories of September Anthology. It was a sweet teaser novella narrated by Connor Crais & Maxine Mitchell. A nice break after the emotional roller coaster of the Duets.

Fantastic books!

The Duets by Meghan Quinn contains the following books: The Upside of Falling and The Downside of Love (Blue Line); and The Left Side of Perfect and The Right Side of Forever (Perfect). The four books (which can be read as standalones but why do that do yourself??) in this compilation chronicle the lives of four individuals-Rory, Ryan, Colby, and Strider. I feel like I should separate my review for each book, but somehow I cannot. This foursome was so intertwined with each other that it has become hard to separate them all. One story bled into the next and so on. At the end of it all, it was one epic love story...not only romantic love but friend love as well. The love these characters felt for each other as friends was just as powerful as the HEA they got in the end. There isn't an emotion that I didn't feel. But the one thing that I didn't expect to do as I listened was CRY. I cried both tears of sadness and joy and can tell you for certain that I will feel the loss of having finished listening to their stories. Can we say major book hangover?? Joe Arden and Maxine Mitchell did a magnificent job bringing these characters to life! A more perfect pair couldn't have been chosen. I received an advance copy of this audiobook at my request and voluntarily left this review.

Definitely worth the purchase❣️

I loved the books when they came out and the audio books add so much more to their stories! Joe & Maxine bring Colby, Stryder, Rory, Ryan & Sage to life. It takes them a while to end up with their true soulmates but their journeys to get their are epic! #pieceofcakereviewer

Great Bundle: definitely recommended!

Wow. I don't think I would have survived trying to read these separately. With each set of duets ending on cliffhangers, and how the plot twists developed, I would have gone mad! Just kidding! Not really, I would have been eagerly searching and waiting the next book. I am really happy with the final outcome for these characters, and glad I took the long journey with them.
Maxine Mitchell and Joe Arden were a phenomenal pair in the audiobook and made the story really come to life. Their narrative skills really enhanced the author's already addictive writing skills.
I do absolutely recommend this set for anyone who's looking for a lifelong journey into happiness.

Wonderful

Lots of tears but great story line for sure!! Would read it again and again and again!!!