This is book 5 in Mari Carr’s Italian Stallions series. There’s enough info on previous characters that you aren’t completely lost - but these are best enjoyed in order.

DNF @ 37%. I wanted to like this. I was excited for this one because it was going to be full on MMF and I was looking forward to Kayden & Aldo. Unfortunately, pretty much every part fell flat for me. I was going to keep listening to have the background for future books - but I just couldn’t.

Spoilers from here on out:

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I didn’t enjoy any of the character or relationship development. Hazel was bizarrely described as strong, independent, competent, and a survivor while also managing to be a pushover, dense, and immature. For no reason she lives with and financially supports her deadbeat family members. No reason. She could have afforded to live completely on her own and had no emotional attachment to them, but she just let them bleed her dry?

Kayden & Aldo were lovers, but stopped because… they both wanted to be with women too and were afraid if they kept having sex they’d never get a ménage?

A lot of this was told in long, boring expositions.

Then - when they meet Hazel, it’s instant attraction and instant “alpha male” behavior, but in ways that felt really cringy and disrespectful.

Big chunks of this felt like rewritten (poorly) sections of previous books.

When I realized that I had checked out while this was playing in the background, I stopped.

Narration:
I’ve enjoyed all the narrators in the previous books and they were terrific here - except the voice Highpoint used for Aldo didn’t work for me. It made him sound kind of dopey. It won’t keep me from listening to to any of them in the future, as I usually tend to love all their performances.