The Hurricane

De: R. J. Prescott

Narrado por: Pearl Hewitt

Emily McCarthy is living in fear of a dark and dangerous past. A gifted mathematician, she is little more than a hollow, broken shell, trying desperately to make ends meet long enough to finish her degree.

Through an unlikely friendship with the aging, cantankerous owner of an old boxing gym, Em is thrown into the path of the most dangerous man that she has ever met.

Cormac "the Hurricane" O'Connell is cut, tattooed, and dangerous. He is a lethal weapon with no safety, and everyone is waiting for the misfire. He's never been knocked out before, but when he meets Em he falls - hard. Unlike any other girl he's ever met, she doesn't want anything from him. Just being around her makes him want to be a better person.

They are polar opposites who were never meant to find each other, but some things are just worth the fight.

©2016 R. J. Prescott (P)2016 Hachette Audio

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"Enjoyable and sweet, and just a touch of angst. Good writing, good story, sweet girl, and FREAKING AWESOME guy." ( Maryse's Book Blog)

A nice second chance story

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The story is full of drama, sadness, overcoming the past and making a better life for yourself. The saddest part for me was her mother letting her stepfather do whatever he wanted to her and standing by him. They were so close before her father died and then he came along and her mother just fell apart. When most mothers would be protecting their child this mother more or less said yes beat my child and rapes her in front of me while I close the door and walk away. You can do whatever you want as long as you do not hit me just hit her.

Cormac was just living day to day with no thought of tomorrow until he met Em than his life changed as he tried to better his self and make a life for her. I really loved this character he was a protector from the start he gave so much of his self. I really felt bad for him when something happened and he thought it was his fault. No one can be there 24/7. His mother was something else and I was glad to see he saw the true her.

Em what can I say about her to have lived through all she had and still have faith in mankind is amazing. I think I would have had to kill the stepfather before I left town. I thought she was a wonderful character picking up her life and moving on getting an education and paying her way was outstanding.

I thought the author did a great job her voice was strong and real for the characters. You could feel the emotions as the characters were dealing with the drama. I didn’t hear any background noise just a few places where the audio when from normal to a little louder. The characters emotions were all over the place and I felt she did them very well. I thought the tones were even with you knowing just what each was feeling at any giving minute. Her character voices were good you had no trouble knowing who was talking. Her male to female were nice, she has a very clear easy voice to listen to. I thought she did a good narration with a lovely voice.

I thought this was a great plot but could have been made a little shorter. At times I thought not enough information had been given and at other times way too much. It wasn’t a audio I had trouble putting down and coming back to. I did want to know the ending and found it to be an interesting read. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop with her stepfather but the author keep that for later building it up to a wonderful ending. I hope he got what he so richly deserved. It was really a nice second chance story that at times was very touching. I would have liked to have known after so long where the mother stood and how she was doing. I would have also liked to have known what happen 10 years down the road with the main characters. All in all it wasn’t a bad listen I give it a 3.5 starts with a 4.5 for the narration.

One of my favorites

I’ve read this book many times, listening to it made it come alive in a new way

Great Romance

What a great romance and the voice actor did a fabulous job! I am so pleasantly surprised because I got this on sale, and I wasn't sure if I would like it. I am not even a boxing fan, but this is a character driven story with two appealing main characters and a lovely batch of well fleshed out secondary characters.

Loved the story

Excellent performance! Hard to listen to the rape and abuse parts but ultimately a survivor story.

Almost perfect

This was a sweet story. I enjoyed and felt the love these 2 had for each other. I also liked all of the other characters.

There's just one complaint I have. I really, really wish there was a MMA/Fighter series I could read that the males are not man whores prior or during meeting the forever girls. It is so over done. I get it they are men yeah, but can we just kinda leave that part out. If you have to have that part of their past, then just mention it in passing, not a detailed club/bar scene where all the slutty girls are dry fucking them and naked. I lose respect for these future hero's and have actually stopped several series because it's just so common and old.

I would love where that was left out and we focused more on their careers/family life/and funny times with their friends. This is the reason I took this book down to a 4 star rather than a 5 star.

The narrator was awesome loved her.

worth a read

loved the main characters, and the storyline. The reader is fantastic; she did different voices for characters, her voice was pleasant, and she read everything smoothly.

Powerful, emotional story!

I seriously didn't think I was going to like this story as boxing does not appeal to me at all, but it's not really about boxing at all. It's about the relationships between a close-knit group of Irish boxers, and the girl who wins the love and devotion of all of them but most particularly that of Cormac "Hurricane" O.Connell.

I loved all of these characters. The story is so well-developed, and the reader gets to know them all so well, by their actions and their dialogue. They are all quite lovable. The relationship between Emily and Cormac is so sweet and sensual. I just love them.

I listened to the audible version of this one, and the awesome Pearl Hewitt did such an amazing job. The story has multiple male, Irish characters and only three female characters, but she did such a fantastic job with each character's voice, I had no trouble at all telling them all apart.

I would definitely read more from this author, and I highly recommend listening to any audio book narrated by Pearl Hewitt.

Fabulous!

One of my favorites. I listen to it a couple of times a year and love it every time. Fabulous story with a great narrator.

A GOOD ROMANCE.. BUT NOT THE USUAL ALPHA MMA LISTEN

Beautiful and tragic Emily (Em) just wanted to be left alone, she is living in fear of being found by her violent, cruel and physically abusive Step-Father so she keeps her head down, does her work at the Coffee Shop, studies and goes to College part-time to further her Qualifications. The timid little mouse is afraid of everything - everything except the elderly gruff man who regularly comes in for breakfast and Em instinctively knows that he would never hurt her.... but he is, in a roundabout way, going to change her life.

Because he is the Trainer/Owner of an MMA Gym and O'Connell (Con), who's handsome, tattooed, sexy as sin and one of his best Fighters, has joined him and he stirs something inside Em that she never knew she was capable of feeling. But little did Em know that Con was just as nervous, just as turned on and just as aware of her too... because this fierce, bold and besotted Fighter has been secretly watching her from afar.

The fight to win Em's trust, devotion, support and love will start with a very tentative friendship and slowly grow into undying love.... but it is going to be a difficult road for these two damaged characters because Em doesn't trust easily, a Mother's greed will become toxic and a Step-Father's obsession will prove to be dangerous, bloody and life-threatening.

Em and Con are very different and yet they also have a traumatic and heartbreaking childhood in common, a childhood that shaped who they are, but in one another's arms and with each other's support and love, they each blossom and change to become strong individuals. There is a roomful of loveable secondary characters, there's humor, teasing witty banter, raw emotions, sex, passion, romance, tragedy and heartache but despite all the angst that life throws at them, love does conquers all. And, in the end, the Fighter becomes a Winner and the Mouse becomes a Survivor.

Although the storyline was set mainly in a gym with Fighters it wasn't a 'fight' based book and there's only intermittent Chapters relating to training, upcoming fights and the Championship. Personally, I like my Fighters to be a bit more Alpha and be more 'in your face' pumped up with sexual testosterone fuelled desire than Con was but I do understand that that's the last thing Em needed and that Con toned down his attitude, but not his jealousy, for her. Told from Em's POV except the Prologue and the Epilogue which was Con's POV, I think it was set in London, most of the characters were Irish, I'm sure Em was 20, it did have a NA feel about it and the narrator did a good job.

Worth a credit? This was an enjoyable listen, different because the Hero wasn't all Alpha to his woman but instead he was kind, thoughtful, considerate, understanding and patient, the secondary characters were like one big family and were at the forefront of the story as Con wooed, won and wed the woman of his dreams. A good story, a good listen and, if you want a much 'lighter' Irish Fighter, then you too will find this listen creditworthy.

lovely

I really enjoyed this book! I was so happy to finally have a male lead that loved the heroine so mich but at the same time, didn't treat her like he owned her! and the heroine was great! she wasn't stupid and didn't say she would do something and pulled back last second! so annoying when that happens! and the other cast of characters were great! they made the story that mich brighter, all in all I really enjoyed this book! and would totally recommend

p.s. the lady that read the book did the voices great, at some points when the character felt a very strong emotion she would convey it with her voice.