Unexpected Reality

By: Kaylee Ryan

Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton, Callie Dalton

Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

Expect the unexpected. That's what they say, but it's easier said than done.  

How do you expect a change so huge it rocks you to your core?  

How do you prepare yourself for an event that will alter your life forever?  

One breath  

One second  

One minute  

One hour  

One day at a time, you learn to live with your unexpected reality.

©2016 Kaylee Ryan (P)2019 Audible, Inc.

sweet and flawed

This is my first time reading this author. I dont know how I feel. Its a very sweet..feel good but wants to be angsty story. I dont kinda-sotrta-do-dont really mind the first flip of the script. But once I let go and the baby is born....okay fine...lets go. I will say as a mother the aging of the baby bothered me..sometimes it was age appropriate and others not so much. Of course TH was narrating gold and Callie D was really good. The Lifetime plot twist at the end....major eyeroll and side eye for me. Im not angry I used a credit for this but I do think its better suited on audible escape package .

4.5 baby Knox stars!!!

I really enjoyed this story, which was a surprise because some of the reviews are harsh. But I am sooo glad I decided to see for myself. I swooned hard over Ridge. He was such a great character, even though at the beginning I was not a fan. Now Kendall I loved from the very start, she was the hardworking and sassy chick, I would love to have as a BFF. Their story is sweet and yes a little heart wrenching, but definitely worth it. I absolutely adored the narration from Callie Dalton and Teddy Hamilton as well!!!

Must Read...Loved it! Worth the credit...

I highly recommend this book and Ridge is one of my new book boyfriends. This book has all the feels in it and I just couldn't stop listening. Also, be prepared...its a tear jerker because you truly feel for the main characters while falling for the supporting characters too.

Unexpected twists

I read in a review once that the best narrators are the ones you don’t notice. Callie Dalton and Teddy Hamilton are two of my favorite. They allow the listener to focus on the story instead of their voice. As for the story, I loved it! I’m pretty good about predicting where the pot is going but this story had a few plot twists that shocked me. I’m sure good in the form of a book but I highly recommend getting the audio version.

Great story!!

Great story full of twists and turns. There’s 1 chapter toward the end that is kind of cheesy but overall it was a great book!

plot twist

The playboy finds a good girl and settles down. A good story. The plot twist near the end was good and unexpected.

So sweet

I cried. I laughed. I cannot remember the last time a book took me through so many emotions so fully.

Wow!

The book details were incredibly vague so I had no idea what I was getting into. So many twists and turns but Ridge had me from the very start! Kendall’s love and devotion to baby Knox and Ridge just warmed my heart!
I’m a HUGE fan of Teddy Hamilton’s narration! His voice is so addictive! I’ve listened to many of Callie Dalton’s narrations and she’s superb! The two of them together really make a tremendous team!

Worst book ever writ

Worst book ever. Don’t waste your credit it was horrible I can’t believe how long I waited to before I deleted This book three hours in and I I can’t get them three hours of my life back

Wow!!

I never ever wrote reviews but this book was so good that I thought others needed to know too. I can’t wait for the next in the series!

Not really the story that I had hoped for.

When the story begun, I had a sense of hope for an uplifting story for a happily ever after but unfortunately it eventually only depicted a story too close to a common real-world reality; Those who have everything, will carry on to have everything and more and those who have nothing, will never have anything more.

... Not really the story that I had hoped for. Quite insensitive also, in my personal opinion.

Melissa getting to hold Knox and have their photo taken, squeezed my heart so tight I choked up. This was my favourite part of the story, Melissa's dream of having a family finally coming true.

It wasn't the worst story but I felt that the emotions within it were only surface deep in general so I wouldn't recommend it.

This book was so weird.

I wish I could say I liked this… it had so much potential. But this was verging on comically bad.

I gave up around 80%.

Basically, the choice to have Melissa’s POV for the prologue would have worked if she was a part of the book (even if just in spirit). Then, the choice to have only Ridge’s POV for the first six chapters would have worked if it wasn’t so stunted and sporadic in emotional range and tone. THEN! It would also have worked if Kendall’s introduction wasn’t so sudden after, arguably incredibly traumatic events of the week before.

I don’t care how emotionally mature you are, if you had stumbled upon your one-night-stand pregnant with your baby and I’m a coma, only to have the baby come early, the mother wake up and died within minutes… yeah you would not be jumping into relationship territory. You’d be exhausted, traumatized, probably overwhelmed with a baby, and not working dammit.

It just… didn’t make any logical or emotional sense. From the immature adolescent bet, to re-introducing Melissa only to kill her off, to the lack of precision/detail for the entire hospital portion of the book, to Kendall’s and Ridge’s insta-love, then the 180 on Stephanie’s personality? Yeah, every portion of this book was all over the place, wanted to be emotional and angst-filled, yet never went deeper then surface level.

I didn’t believe the instant Daddy-reformed image of Ridge, I didn’t like his weird friends, and the romantic arch was shallow at best.

The only saving grace here was Teddy Hamilton, as Callie Dalton was too stilted and robotic, but not even he could save this story.

I 100% understand the criticism here, and want to echo the others that say: don’t spend a credit on this my dudes.

A knockout emotional story

Kendall and Ridge meet shortly after he faces the life changing event of becoming an unexpected single dad. But he accepts that challenge head on.
Kendall is a nurse and she is impressed with Ridge's determination to be the best dad for his son.
Excellent narration throughout bringing the story to life ❤

Just... Boring

Didn't even finish it. Boring, predictable and all the clichés (and not in a good way)