Desperate Love: The Complete Trilogy
A Survival Romance for Men
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Desperate Love: The Complete Trilogy
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Narrated by:
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Soraya Li
THE COMPLETE TRILOGY.
Luke just wanted to get away.
What better place than a personal, secluded cabin in the woods to clear his mind? Besides, the quarantines were still in place, and the world wasn’t getting any better. Social media was abuzz with tales of an impending disaster, wars brewing overseas, and more.
Then it happened. One of those apocalypse predictions turns out to be true: a massive solar flare shatters the power grid worldwide. Pressing on, Luke makes it to his cabin and discovers a woman already there....
For two people in a cabin somewhere in Oregon, survival seems uncertain, a relationship even less so. But love grows in the strangest places.
Desperate Love: The Complete Trilogy collects all three novellas, and contains two bonus short stories not available anywhere else.
©2025 Misty Vixen and Lara X. Lust (P)2025 Royal Guard Publishing LLCSlice-of-life relies on the characters in order to succeed and, while the characters seemed relatively interesting to begin with, they became less so as more of their personalities and backgrounds were revealed. Much of the dialogue was full of long rants or whinging, and some of the internal monologues on love and relationships were pretty cringey. I also had to try hard to feel the burgeoning relationship between them; it didn't really seem to develop in a believable way. The talky-talky feelings stuff -- that normally carries a slice-of-life romance -- felt lacking.
Writing quality is fairly typical of self-published KU/ K+, with lots of the usual types of errors. Poorly anchored and ambiguously anchored pronouns are prevalent in the few action scenes. And there are so many misuses of transitive lay/laid that are very distracting; almost every intimate scene was ruined for me when my brain kept correcting the incorrect verbs. "They laid down." No they didn't; they lay down. "They laid back." No they didn't; they lay back. "She laid on the bed." No she didn't; she lay on the bed. "She was laying on her back." No; she was lying on her back! It was very frustrating! There are also a few inconsistencies and some aspects of the settings and events that didn't quite ring true.
Audiobook narration is excellent. Character voices are consistent and I didn't notice any mispronunciations or glitches. The female narrator does a good job with the male characters. The production quality is very high, with no obvious normalisation issues across takes.
Ultimately I was disappointed by this. It's not as good a romance for men book as I expected and it's nowhere near as good a survival book as dedicated survival titles. It was lacking in quite a few ways, but I think the ranting, whinging, and angsty exposition was ultimately what ruined it for me; too much of it read like a YA fiction.
Note: the description for this omnibus version claims it includes three novellas plus two bonus short stories. The version of the audiobook currently available on audible seems to only include the three novellas.
Too much ranting
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