Raymond by Eve Langlais

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This avid gamer is about to discover love doesn’t mean game over. As a hacker who rarely leaves the basement, Raymond’s chances of meeting Mrs. Right are slim to none until his hermit-lifestyle is jolted. A warning to stop poking into his past comes with consequences–and intrigues this curious cat. Raymond’s only recently discovered he can shift into a lynx. He has questions, but the answers will require leaving his safe zone–and his comfy slippers–so he can find the one woman who can help. A scowling and fierce woman who makes Raymond crave a happily ever after. Whereas Lainey would rather he disappear. She isn’t falling for his awkward charm. They must remain alert and never forget they’re playing a game with an enemy who will stop at nothing to win. The stakes are their lives. Is it game over for this budding love?

Raymond

Unpredictable!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😚☹️🥹😉
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Solo Narration

The Hero: Raymond – he is a lynx shifter and was born in a lab. The scientists were experimenting on children, but if the kids didn’t manifest an ability by a certain age, Mr. X, the guy in charge, told the scientists to terminate them. The lead scientist refused to do that, so he found them a home with his sister. Raymond and his eight adopted siblings grew up on a farm with their “mom”, Nannette Hubbard, who was a wonderful lady who risked a lot by taking in all of those kids. Though now they are part of the wolf pack that lived in the same town. Raymond is a genius and a gifted hacker with mild asperger’s syndrome.

The heroine: Lainey (a.k.a. Pink Llama) – she is a hacker who liked to electronically watch others. Most recently she had been watching Raymond online and she was very good at her job. She had gone to a lot of trouble to rid the world of the huanimorph project. Lainey had barely escaped the project herself after careful planning years in the making. She had been in deep hiding ever since. She knows too much so she is afraid of being caught. She had burned down all of their labs remotely, saving the Canadian one, where she was born for last. She knew the scientists and Mr. X were still alive.

The Story: Raymond continued to look into his and his siblings’ pasts even after his brothers burned down the secret lab where they were born. While playing an online game, he gets a message from someone with the handle Pink Llama, that tells him to stop digging and asking questions or he and his family will regret it. Of course, the threat only piqued his interest into the Pink Llama.

I loved the characters in this book. Lainey was quite a badass heroine. The story was the best of the three so far. There was plenty of suspense and Mr. X was a big threat in this one. I also loved the surprises in this story, there were quite a few things in this story that I would never have predicted, and I always love a story that is original and unpredictable, especially when I don’t pick up any clues to what is coming.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via solo narration and was narrated by Grace Grant. I usually hate solo narration but was able to get this book as part of a box set, so I picked it up. Grace Grant is a pretty good narrator; she has a nice voice and her voice for the male characters isn’t bad either.

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