Clean Sweep [Dramatized Adaptation] by Ilona Andrews

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

On the outside, Dina Demille is the epitome of normal. She runs a quaint Victorian Bed and Breakfast in a small Texas town, owns a Shih Tzu named Beast, and is a perfect neighbor, whose biggest problem should be what to serve her guests for breakfast. But Dina is…different: Her broom is a deadly weapon; her Inn is magic and thinks for itself. Meant to be a lodging for otherworldly visitors, the only permanent guest is a retired Galactic aristocrat who can’t leave the grounds because she’s responsible for the deaths of millions and someone might shoot her on sight. Under the circumstances, “normal” is a bit of a stretch for Dina.

And now, something with wicked claws and deepwater teeth has begun to hunt at night….Feeling responsible for her neighbors, Dina decides to get involved. Before long, she has to juggle dealing with the annoyingly attractive, ex-military, new neighbor, Sean Evans—an alpha-strain werewolf—and the equally arresting cosmic vampire soldier, Arland, while trying to keep her inn and its guests safe. But the enemy she’s facing is unlike anything she’s ever encountered. It’s smart, vicious, and lethal, and putting herself between this creature and her neighbors might just cost her everything.

Clean Sweep

Strange world!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌏
Character development: 🙂🥰😎🤩
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Duet Narration ✨Full Cast – Dramatized Adaptation✨

The heroine: Dina – she is an innkeeper, which is a kind of supernatural. Many of your traditional supernaturals are in this book, like werewolves and vampires, but this one is different. Most of the supernaturals come from different planets and travel to Earth via portals or doorways. Dina is in charge of her bed & breakfast and the land and orchards she owns. Her supernatural boarders are under her protection and she takes that seriously. Her house is magic, and she has magic, including a magical broom which can turn into all sorts of weapons.

The Hero: Sean – he is a werewolf who moved to the small Texas town where Dina lives and made it his territory. He was in the military for a long time and now he wants to settle down for a more sedate life. Though he knows he is a werewolf, he doesn’t want others to know, and his parents never told him the history of werewolves. He doesn’t know that his people came from outer space and were at war with another race.

The Story: when supernatural beings called stalkers invade the town and start killing dogs in a horrible way, Dina tells Sean to protect his territory. However, Sean doesn’t know what Dina is and pretends he has no clue what she is talking about. Though he does smarten up and admit to her what she already knows. They team up to get rid of the stalkers and end up getting along well.

This was a strange story, and this world was not like most of the supernatural worlds we read about in romance. This was a clean romance, though Dina and Sean did have an attraction and there was some jealousy when a vampire comes to town. Dina was similar to a witch, but just called an innkeeper, and it meant something specific in this world. She could grant sanctuary on her land which was warded, so other supernaturals can’t get to the people there. It was a strange world, but I liked it.

This audiobook is narrated in dramatized adaptation form by a full cast of narrators. Performed by: Nora Achrati, Ryan H. Reid, Alex Hill-Knight, Karen Novack, James Lewis, Elias Khalil, Christopher Walker, Alejandro Ruiz, Peter Holdway, Holly Adams, Ken Jackson, John Kielty, Darius Johnson, Nicole Perez, Joe Mallon, Keval Shah, KenYatta Rogers, Duyen Washington, Kelly Baskin, Steve Wannall, Christopher Graybill, Nickolette Kong, K’Lai Rivera, Laura C. Harris, Martin Dickinson, Jessica Lauren Ball, and Bradley Foster Smith.

I liked the narration for the most part but a few things bothered me. The woman who did the voice of Dina, sounded older than I would have liked, and she had a good southern accent, I just would have liked her to sound quirkier to be more like the character. Also, I like full cast/dramatized narration, in that you get to hear background sounds of what the characters are doing, like walking, or doors opening and stuff like that, but I don’t like background music, which this had during some parts.

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