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Five Star Review

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Five Star Review

By: Marie Reynard
Narrated by: Zachary Zaba, Harley Chase
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Gravity, love, and other inevitable falls.

Aiden Lucas is used to a steady stream of discreet packages arriving on his doorstep. It's part and parcel of living with one of the internet's most popular adult toy reviewers, but nothing could have prepared him for the next toy his roommate receives—something that hits a little too close to a secret Aiden has longed to confess for years.

Zayn Parvin has never found a toy worthy of five stars until an anonymous viewer sends him something downright magical—a mysterious model called the Richard Knotz that's not listed anywhere on the internet. The moment he gets his hands, and other parts of his anatomy, on this particular product, he can't stop raving about its special features.

But Zayn is human and shouldn't have been sent merchandise meant exclusively for the supernatural community. His review threatens to expose significantly more than what he usually shows in his videos, and it forces Aiden to make a choice: confess to Zayn, or let a mage wipe Zayn's memory of all things supernatural… including Aiden.

Five Star Review is a 25k steamy best friends to lovers, roommates to mates novella featuring two geeky astronomy majors, some very realistic merchandise, years of pining, a lot of astrophysics homework, and knotting. This stand-alone M/M paranormal romance is set in the Elemental Bonds/MateHub universe and guarantees a HEA for its main couple. It does not contain mpreg.

©2024 Marie Reynard (P)2025 Marie Reynard
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College student Zayn Parvin runs a popular paywalled site where he posts videos of himself trialing and rating new sex toys. As a human, he’s completely oblivious to the fact that his dreamy flatmate and best friend, Aiden Lucas, is a wolf shifter, though he has noticed a few patterns as each full moon approaches! Aiden is alarmed to find that some careless supernatural fan has sent Zayn a toy based on the famous Matehub adult entertainer, Richard Knotz. Richard is also a wolf shifter and his highly-prized toy can mimic things no human can do. Aiden can’t risk Zayn posting his review of the toy to the human population, it might expose all supernaturals, but he doesn’t want Zayn’s memory wiped of all things supernatural because that would include him.

This is a short novella (126 pp, 2.5 audio hours) in the fun and entertaining Matehub series. While it’s pitched as a standalone, it is actually set before the events of the full-length novel, Matehub: Legend (book #1), so could be read first without any spoilers. It has the same playful tone of the first book but, due to its short length, the story is simpler and the characters have less depth. It’s still very sweet, spicy, and entertaining and I enjoyed it a lot. The creative ideas are great and there’s a lot of explanation about the world-build here. 🎧 Voice actors Zachary Zaba (as Aiden) and Harley Chase (as Zayn) do another great job and they share the narration of the Matehub Forums posts (which are always entertaining).

Supernatural sex toy hijinks!

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