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Vow Maker
- Mixed Messages, Book 4
- Written by: Lily Morton
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
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Dylan Mitchell wants to get married. However, after seven years of being engaged, that’s looking slightly doubtful. After going through ten wedding planners, they’re gaining a reputation somewhat akin to Henry the Eighth on the wedding circuit. Gabe has vetoed symbolic dove releases, forests of flowers, fire-eating performers, and puce as a wedding color. He’s confounded an army of wedding professionals, and now Dylan, the man who knows and loves him better than anyone, has joined the ranks of the confused. Can anything please his fiancé and get them to the altar?
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Revisiting Dylan and Gabe’s HEA wedding
- By Anne in London on 2025-01-26
- Vow Maker
- Mixed Messages, Book 4
- Written by: Lily Morton
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
Revisiting Dylan and Gabe’s HEA wedding
Reviewed: 2025-01-26
How love,y to revisit Dylan and Gabe as they try to find a wedding planner to help them create the wedding of their dreams. It would help if they knew what their dreams were. Enter Joe from Confetti Hearts as he crashes, drunk from a cocktail tasting, into their lives. We get to visit with Jude and Asa, Henry and Ivo, and touch base with Dylan’s extensive and rather eccentric extended family.
This is a novella, and every word is perfect. As usual Lily Morton’s story is expertly performed by Joel Leslie.
I was moved to happy tears a few times by the glimpse into love between these two characters, and it is worth every moment.
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Risk Taker
- Mixed Messages, Book 3
- Written by: Lily Morton
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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Henry’s the odd man out. All his friends are settling down, and his reputation as the hook-up king of London seems more like a curse than a blessing, these days. Especially when it keeps photojournalist Ivo, his best friend and the brilliant man he’s loved since they were 15, at arm’s length. But that’s where Ivo wants him, right? Putting aside his feelings, Henry decides to give up casual sex and look for the real deal. After all, he has no chance with Ivo. Or, does he?
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Finally, Henry’s story!
- By Anne in London on 2025-01-25
- Risk Taker
- Mixed Messages, Book 3
- Written by: Lily Morton
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
Finally, Henry’s story!
Reviewed: 2025-01-25
Henry and I’ve are an unlikely pair. Henry is a family lawyer, living in London, and deciding that he will stop having hookups, and start looking for a relationship partner as he comes to a realization that the love he has for his ex-step-brother will never come to pass. The night he makes this decision he arrives home to find Ivo the ex-step-brother sitting on his doorstep with a bleeding bullet wound in his side. Ivo has just come back from his latest photo journalist assignment in the war torn Middle East.
Lily Morton has written an enthralling book about recovering from trauma, the healing power of therapy, and the healing power of art. Love has always united Henry and Ivo as best friends since they were 15, and now, during Ivo’s recovery they have the time to explore their love.
There are cameo appearances from Gabe and Dylan, and Jude and Asa, from the first two novels in this series, and they are welcome additions.
As always, Joel Leslie is the perfect narrator for Lily Morton’s works.
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Rule Breaker
- Written by: Lily Morton
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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Is it really wrong to want to murder your boss? Dylan has worked for Gabe for two years. Two long years of sarcastic comments. Two long years of insults, and having to redo the coffee pot four times in the mornings to meet his exacting standards. Not surprisingly he has devoted a lot of time to increasingly inventive ways to murder Gabe. From stabbing him with a cake fork, to garrotting him with his expensive tie, Dylan has thought of everything. However, a chance encounter opens his eyes to the attraction that has always lain between them, concealed by the layers of antipathy.
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Great Listen
- By Cheri Champagne on 2020-02-13
- Rule Breaker
- Written by: Lily Morton
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
Dylan and Gabe’s love is mesmerizing
Reviewed: 2025-01-24
Dylan is Gabe’s PA, and after two years together in a professional capacity Gabe changes the rules, and they come together in a relationship of sorts. Gabe has so much baggage and trauma in his past that he wants a physical, sexual relationship only. The problem is that Dylan has fallen in love and wants more.
There’s humor, badly made coffee, snarky emails, toxic exes, good friends on both sides (Jude and Henry appear in subsequent Mixed Messages books), angst, and then finally, a satisfying HEA.
Joel Leslie is, as always, a brilliant narrator, and Lily Morton is a born story teller. She brings so much of England to life for me, and gives us a glimpse of the wild beauty of the sea cost in Devon.
Absolutely goes on my list of books to revisit.
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Deal Maker
- Mixed Messages, Book 2
- Written by: Lily Morton
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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Jude is a highly successful model, but a very reluctant one. His life is full of casual hook-ups with pretty men in glamorous locations, but it’s still empty. However, circumstances decreed a long time ago that this was his path. However, an accident at home one night leads to him making a new deal and accepting the offer of help from an unlikely source. It leads to an unexpected summer of falling in love with a larger-than-life man and his child. But by the end of the summer his reasons for not staying are still valid. Will he turn away? Can he?
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Asa and Jude are wonderful together
- By Anne in London on 2025-01-23
- Deal Maker
- Mixed Messages, Book 2
- Written by: Lily Morton
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
Asa and Jude are wonderful together
Reviewed: 2025-01-23
There is humor, character growth, an adorable child - Billy, and a love story of epic proportions set against a backdrop of overcoming preconceived notions, family difficulties, and responsibilities that define our lives. Dylan’s, Gabe, and Henry make appearances, and this is a lovely audiobook. As usual, Joel Leslie brings all the characters to life.
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Confetti Hearts
- Written by: Lily Morton
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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His own marriage was a whirlwind affair that ended before the ink could dry on the wedding certificate. Nevertheless, even with his divorce pending, he’s getting by. Or at least he was until he finds himself snowed in at a remote Scottish hotel with the wedding party from hell, a terrible ABBA tribute band, and his soon-to-be ex-husband.
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Charming and funny love story for Joe and Lachlan
- By Anne in London on 2025-01-21
- Confetti Hearts
- Written by: Lily Morton
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
Charming and funny love story for Joe and Lachlan
Reviewed: 2025-01-21
Joe is a wedding planner dealing with overwrought brides, drunken wedding parties, and the occasional mother of the bride and/or groom who has more in common with a velociraptor than with an actual human being. Lachlan is a forensic accountant who has his life under strict control, who meets Joe when Lachlan is a guest at a wedding Joe planned. Sparks fly, big time. There are not date dates, hot hookups, wedding disasters, snowstorms, a misunderstanding that parts Joe and Lachlan, and then a grand reconciliation.
Lily Morton can be counted on for good writing, and Joel Leslie is a worthy narrator of her works. I liked this book better than the second in the series, Something Borrowed.
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Something Borrowed
- Confetti Hitched, Book 2
- Written by: Lily Morton
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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Stan has never let his blindness hold him back, but he’s beginning to realise his love life is keeping him from moving forward. He can’t remember a time when he wasn’t in love with his best friend. Rafferty is everything to him—his partner in crime, his confidante, and the person who understands him best. But Rafferty is incapable of reciprocating Stan’s feelings. As a successful wedding planner, Rafferty is passionately committed to helping newlyweds begin their happily-ever-afters, but after a rootless childhood he’s equally determined not to seek his own.
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Friends to lovers, contemporary M|M romance
- By Anne in London on 2025-01-20
- Something Borrowed
- Confetti Hitched, Book 2
- Written by: Lily Morton
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
Friends to lovers, contemporary M|M romance
Reviewed: 2025-01-20
Charming romance where Rafferty deals with chaos as a wedding planner, and his life-long friend, Stan, overcome emotional and physical barriers to find the true love they have always had for each other.
Lovely story, and as always, Joel Leslie brings the words to life with his narration.
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Love Springs Eternal
- The Beacon Hill Sorcerer, Book 5
- Written by: SJ Himes
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
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Apprenticed to the infamous Necromancer of Boston, Daniel Macavoy has seen a lot of upheaval in his life since that fateful day. Rescued from an abusive father and the monster he was once enslaved by, Daniel has struggled with every trauma that scarred his heart and mind. Yet with the love and support of his found family, Daniel has become stronger than he ever imagined. A capable sorcerer, he's been entrusted with the ancestral family seat of the Salvatores, the legendary site of the Massacre, the culmination of the centuries long Blood Wars between the Salvatores and the Macavoys.
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Daniel’s story is Da Bomb
- By Anne in London on 2025-01-17
- Love Springs Eternal
- The Beacon Hill Sorcerer, Book 5
- Written by: SJ Himes
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
Daniel’s story is Da Bomb
Reviewed: 2025-01-17
I so enjoyed the love story between Daniel and Rory Brennan. As Rory is involved, of course Cian’s parallel story is also involved. There is magic in Sheena Jolie’s writing as she continues her world building in the Beacon Hill Sorcerer. Old friends and old adversaries are back, and there are new characters as well. Angel and Simeon have moved into a new home in Beacon Hill, and it comes with Martin the Butler. Enoch thinks of him as Martin the Butler.
There are laugh out loud parts, Angel being in-your-face protective about his dragon, Eroch, a courtship, a jailbreak, coming into magical affinities, and surprise new characters appearing at the end, which explains the first short story in A History of Trouble.
I can listen to this series over and over.
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Mastering the Flames
- Beacon Hill Sorcerer Series, Book 4
- Written by: SJ Himes
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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Guilt-ridden after the massacre of his family, Isaac Salvatore turned to binge drinking to escape the pain. Now 24 years old, Isaac is a recovering alcoholic woefully out of practice in the magical arts, leaving his fire affinity hanging on the edge of disaster. After a month of rehab, he returns to Beacon Hill and his family, determined to remain sober, learn to control his magic, and figure out a plan for his life that doesn't involve drinking.
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Love and magic, isaac’s story is a winner
- By Anne in London on 2025-01-15
- Mastering the Flames
- Beacon Hill Sorcerer Series, Book 4
- Written by: SJ Himes
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
Love and magic, isaac’s story is a winner
Reviewed: 2025-01-15
This is Isaac’s story in the Beacon Hill Sorcerer epic. We also get Constantine’s backstory, the history of blood magic, and love and adventure.
Loved it, loved the writing by Sheena Jolie, and loved Joel Leslie’s narration.
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A History of Trouble
- A Beacon Hill Sorcerer Collection
- Written by: SJ Himes
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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"Red Wine and Blood": The Blood Wars raged for centuries across Boston. Witness a brief glimpse into the brutal history of the Wars with Ignacio Salvatore and the vampire he loves, Ashwin Metcalfe, in 1897. "A History of Trouble": Angel was joking when he asked O'Malley if someone resurrected a mammoth. Little did he know that was exactly what someone did. "A Dragon in the City": What happens when Eroch goes adventuring in Beacon Hill without Angel? Chaos, pure chaos. "Fae's Gold": Daniel is helping the newly-resurrected fae, Ruairi Brennan, become accustomed to modern-day living.
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Great collection of stories.
- By Shirley on 2019-11-15
- A History of Trouble
- A Beacon Hill Sorcerer Collection
- Written by: SJ Himes
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
Beacon Hill Socerer short stories to fill in the blanks
Reviewed: 2025-01-14
Sheena Jolie (S.J. Himes) not only writes cracking sharp long fiction, but is adept at short stories as well, which are a completely different written art form.
Especially notable is Dragon in the City written from Eroch’s point of view. Eroch is Angel’s dragon familiar, and Eroch sees Angel and Simeon as his nest mates.
Especially funny is the description of Eroch’s constant battle with the pidgins of Boston.
Of course, Joel’s Leslie shines as the narrator.
Each of these four short stories expands the Beacon Hill Sorcerer story line, and fit well in a collection rather than included in any of the main stories.
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The Necromancer’s Reckoning
- Beacon Hill Sorcerer Series, Book 3
- Written by: SJ Himes
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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For a decade, Angel Salvatore has been the most powerful sorcerer and only necromancer in all the Northeast. Never one to ask permission nor apologies, he has acted with near impunity for years. The High Council of Sorcery has come to Boston, and Angel is their target. Charged with numerous violations of practitioner laws, his freedom and family are placed in jeopardy. If found guilty, Angel's apprentice Daniel will be imprisoned to serve out the remaining years of his apprenticeship.
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Love Angelus Salvatore as a battle mate
- By Anne in London on 2025-01-14
- The Necromancer’s Reckoning
- Beacon Hill Sorcerer Series, Book 3
- Written by: SJ Himes
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
Love Angelus Salvatore as a battle mate
Reviewed: 2025-01-14
In this, the third book in the Beacon Hill Sorcerer series, we see Angel in his aspect as a battle mate fighting latches, grave robbers, and the Council of Magic. It’s a roller coaster of an adventure, and kept me on the edge of my seat from beginning to end.
Isaac has gone to Nevermore for his alcohol addiction, Daniel is deal with the aftermaths of his abuse at Dayimos’ hands (from the first book), there are vampire politics to untangle, and Eroch decides to take matters into his own wings.
This book is well written and well paced, and the partnership between Joel Leslie and Sheena Jolie is the chef’s kiss.
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