First and Only by Abbie Zanders
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Sick secrets!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙❤️💚💜
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎
Character development: 🙃😊😉🥰😘
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Solo Narration
The heroine: Lexi O’Connell – she is the master chef of the Celtic Goddess restaurant in Georgia and is on vacation, returning to Pine Ridge Pennsylvania, to her roots for a two-day trip. She loved to people watch, crafting a scenario for the people she sees. She already did that for most of the other passengers on the bus, when she sees a handsome man that reminds her of someone from her past, a man named Ian whom she had been in love with for all of her adult life.
The Hero: Ian Callaghan – he is former military and works special ops for the government along with his brothers from time to time. In between missions, he works at the family’s Irish pub and is quite the ladies’ man. He is happy-go-lucky and full of charisma. Whenever he sees a beautiful woman, he immediately turns on the charm and tries to get her into bed.
The Story: Ian was one of the best characters in Dangerous Secrets, he was a big flirt and had such a devil-may-care attitude, that you couldn’t help but love him. On the bus, Ian sits down next to Lexi after a trip to the bathroom and she realizes that he is actually Ian Callaghan, and he doesn’t even know who she is. Lexi knew that Ian was never interested in her, she considered herself plain and never wanted to go out of her way to attract him, she had been saving herself for the ‘one’ at the time.
Ian was intrigued by Lexi from the start, he liked that she was the shy, quiet type and even liked that she seemed to have limited sexual experience, which was odd because he usually ran from someone like that. He hadn’t been close to innocence like that for a while and she smelled like sunshine. Lexi has some secrets though, and Ian wants to learn all of them.
I liked how attracted to Lexi that Ian was from the very start, how he noticed everything about her. He had been feeling especially restless since his brother Jake had found someone to love. Plus, he just returned from a dangerous mission, so he seemed more in tune with his emotions. The story was good and like the first book, the character building was great. The Callaghan family are terrific, they are a bunch of crazy brothers and an awesome father.
This audiobook was told in dual points of view via solo narration. It was narrated by Aiden Snow who is one of my all-time favorite male narrators. He has a soft yet very deep voice which is so sexy. I could listen to him for days. He does a great job with this book (and with everything he narrates).
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