Worth the Chance
Giving Consent Series, Book 4
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Worth the Chance
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Narrated by:
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Z.A. Martin
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By:
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Kate Hawthorne
About this listen
Verity Jones has always been true to themself; even when it meant coming out as nonbinary at a young age and losing the love of their friends and parents. Years later, Verity is ensnared in a complicated, consuming, but purely platonic relationship with their best friend Landon. When Landon's high-school sweetheart re-enters the picture, Verity finds themself alone for the first time since college.
Content with the status quo, Aaron Hoffman finds his tight-knit circle of friends shaken up when Gregory introduces him to Landon, and Landon's roommate and business partner, Verity. From the first time they speak, Aaron is fascinated by the elusive, rose-scented person behind the bar at Rapture. Determined to know them better, Aaron focuses his attention on convincing Verity he's worth their time.
Aaron's steadfastness and patience offer Verity the stability they're looking for, giving them both a place to explore new facets to the dynamic lifestyle they'd lived in the past. Venturing into the unknown is daunting, but to find love, Verity and Aaron will need to take the chance.
Contains mature themes.
©2018 Kate Hawthorne (P)2019 TantorAaron to Verity: “What’s going on up there?” (Reader: just lots of wheel-spinning and self-doubt)
Chas to Verity: “Have you been body snatched?” (Reader: Yes!)
Verity: “God, I’m an a**hole!” (Reader: Yes. Yes, you are!)
The opending of the book is disjoint but it does get better. Verity, unfortunately, doesn’t. They are unsure, confused, unconfident, and just plain cruel to Aaron at times. They even dress down and worry about meeting the kids sports team that Aaron coaches.
There are plenty of stories about non-binary characters figuring themselves out and that’s fine. But I was really looking forward to finally reading about a strong, positive, totally in-charge NB character and I felt this was a missed opportunity. Instead of taming a big, muscly dom, Verity reverts to being solely submissive so that this reads like a run-of-the-mill MF romance with very traditional roles. The overly schmaltzy language didn’t help.
We do find out Verity’s gender at birth, but if you want to know the specifics of Verity’s current anatomy, you’ll be disappointed. The author deliberately obscures this throughout and I respect that choice but some will find the sex scenes a little vague.
Hats off to ZA Martin for narrating so well. Using ‘they’ is something many are still getting used to and I’ll bet a few he/she’s had to be edited out (the whole series is currently free on the Audible Plus catalogue).
Not the same Verity!
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