Tall, Dark & Furious by R.L. Mathewson

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

For three centuries, Trace waited for this moment, imagined all the things that he would do to the Pack that tried to kill him, and now that he was free….

All he could think about was the woman that he’d claimed as his own. She was everything that he’d always wanted and once he had his revenge, he would make her his.

Samantha had resigned herself to a lot of things over the years, being the town joke, blacking out at inopportune moments, and living with a dog that hated her, but what she hadn’t planned on was suddenly finding five large men destroying her basement, looking for a tomb that she never knew existed. In one moment, her life changed forever, leaving her to wonder how she was going to make it out of this alive.

Tall, Dark & Furious

This was a good one!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙💚❤️💜
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌍🌎
Character development: 😉☺️😟😤🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Solo Narration

The Hero: Trace – in 1665, Trace’s vampire father Ethan found out he was a Pyte, and not human. A Pyte is a result of the mating between a vampire and a human. They fled the village and the sentinal’s were after them. They moved from village to village until finally moving to the colonies. They ended up in a village where he met a shifter girl named Mary whom he thought of as a friend, while he waited until his transformation at 16 years old. After a fight with his father, Trace ran to make sure Mary was safe, but she betrayed him.

The heroine: Sam – she lives 10 miles from town with the nearest neighbor eight miles away. She lives with her dog Charlie, who seems to enjoy making her life a living hell. She broke up with her fiancée two months ago when she caught him with the grocery store checkout clerk, and he announced she was terrible in bed. Sam has a habit of fainting at the worst possible moments and between that and the episode with her fiancée, she was the town joke. She was also scared of her own basement and had been since she was a child, living with her grandmother when she got locked down there for 10 hours.

The Story: Sam works as a nurse in the emergency department at the hospital and many times seen people she trained move up over her. The doctor in charge wouldn’t promote her because he was afraid she would pass out during a trauma, even though it never happened. It only happened when she was embarrassed or anxious. One day when Sam goes down to her basement to change a fuse, she sees six armed men down there tearing her cellar apart.

Trace had been buried in the wall of that basement for hundreds of years. The men that buried him there came back to check to see if he was still there and he was able to kill them. That is when he smelled the human female. He still wanted to get revenge on the girl that betrayed him. I liked his first meeting with Sam. She thought he was some kind of monster when he came out of that wall. Of course, she passed out, which was kind of cute.

This was the most confusing book I have ever read or listened to. The beginning was good, but then it kept changing every chapter to another location and different characters and I really had no idea what was going on for quite a while. I didn’t like it. Some of them were sentinels from the prior books, some were Trace’s father and others. I got it all after a while, but it was confusing at first and at times throughout. Overall though the story was really good. I loved the storyline with the two main characters and Trace’s fathers storyline as well.

This audiobook was told in multiple points of view via solo narration. It was narrated by Celestine Wolf. I am not usually too fond of solo narration, though Celestine does a good job. She has a nice voice and is good at doing different voices for different characters.

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