Not as good as the two previous books

Although I liked this book, I didn’t love it like the two previous books. I didn’t feel much progress was made between the two characters as I would have hoped. I thought this book drug out way longer than was needed. Just my opinion. I still can’t wait to find out where it is going to go and will continue with this series. The narrators did a good job with the characters.

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Good with slow parts.

Such a great story just too repetitive. Over and over the same feelings expressed in the same way or only slightly varied. If it was rehashing the abuse and need to heal, I’d understand but it isn’t just that. The redundancy is too much. I’ve almost stop listening several times. I don’t because I keep waiting for the needless ramblings to stop. At some point you must realize you’ve already written that almost exact same paragraph twenty times. Plus a few times it is actually contradictory, not just the changing emotions and internal struggles that contradict but the out right change of facts. There are so many levels to be explored with these characters, there is no need to fluff the story to fill pages. Other that what I’ve mentioned, this is a great story. I’m vested in the characters. I relate to their emotional hurdles and struggles to be together. I truly enjoy hearing both sides and all the internal thoughts shared with me. So it’s worth listening but very boring in between story progression.

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Slow...

The narration was fine and I enjoyed the first 2 books, but this one was really slow.

Ms. Winters’ style of overly descriptive characterizations seemed to annoy me more than usual because the story moved at a snail’s pace.

Although I’d like to find out how Elder & Pim’s story ends I don’t think I can put myself through several more hours of this kind of dialogue. I’ll look at other reviews to get this information.

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Almost aggravating!!!

Ok so this book was repeating repeating and repeating when it came to their emotions... many times I wanted to stop listening... I was getting aggravated throughout the whole freaking book... the sex parts got on my last nerves... you get turnt on then get turnt off to the point where u want to fast forward... Good story line but all this to see nothing was really conquered... Too drawn out but not enough...

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It got boring and repetitive

So 2/3 of the book is a monologue of them emphasizing their problems. Again. It’s like okay I get it! You got issues. It was so boring to hear Pim and Elder complain over and over. “I should do this, I should do that.” “I’m afraid, I’m not afraid. I want to do this. I don’t want to do this.” Blah blah blah. Other than the actual story line being so whiny, Kylie and Eric did a wonderful performance as always!

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Slow. Very slow.

Thought book one was slow well book two was very slow. I didn’t even make it half way through throughout ending the book. Very very slow. No way will I get the next books.

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No one

The reviews I read complained that this episode in the series dragged on, but I didn't notice. I thought it moved well, and the narrators did a fantastic job with their pacing and accents.

The genuine dual narration in this series is quite unusual. Its almost like a radio play.

The previous book made me cry. So did this. Its such a strong dramatization of the kind of psychological damage that sex trafficking causes. It hurts to hear it.

This is the first book I've listened to where the sex scenes made me cry.

I just want to put in a plug here for organizations like Operation Underground Railroad who fight sex trafficking. They deserve our support.

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Awesome read

As I read more and more of the books in the series I get pulled deeper and deeper into Pim and Elder’s story.

There is a war going on between Pim and Tasmin. In this book we get to see more of Pim disappear and Tasmin emerge. What I love about her is she might be bruised, scared, and ghost of her past haunting but she is not broken. Some reading this might disagree, this is just how I look at her. She truly is a strong woman. Has to be to endure all she has endured but yet keeps going.

Elder has so many secrets. His true past has always been slight a mystery. Who is he really? What made him the way his is? We have seen some of the scares his past has left on him. We have even got to see bits and pieces of his self stripped away. But in this book we get to see a little more. We get to see his past come back and haunt him. We get to see the part of himself he is trying to run from come to surface. My heart truly breaks for him. He is damaged. He feels unworthy of something good happening to him. He feels that every thing he touches he destroys. He feels unworthy of love. For this my heart truly breaks.

We get to see some progress between Elder and Pim in this book. We get to see them get closer then they every have been but we also get to see the darkness coming to claim them. The author had once said that this is not your romanic love story. It is not a romanic fairytale, well she was correct. This book is truly a dark romance and can have a lot of tiggers for some. I had went into this book knowing this and I have to say I am truly loving the story. Though every time I hear the word knickers I laugh..LOL

I had listen to the audio and let me tell you the author did and amazing job picking them out. I so love how the male narrator reads Elder’s parts and the female narrator reads Pims parts. It truly helps the book come more to life. Looking forward to doing the audio of book four.

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Not as slow as people said! Excellent

I read some reviews on this book saying that it was slow paced and sometimes even annoyingly so. I somewhat agree that some parts were slow, but it's impossible to deny that so much happened in this part of the series. And I loved every bit of these developments. I'm about to move on to the next and I was very satisfied with this book.

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Hundreds of Beautiful Moments & Some Sad Ones Too

Hundreds is the third book in the “Dollars” series. This one is on par with the first book, and I can’t wait to go on to book four now!

By the way, book three is much better than book two, for those readers/reviewers who were disappointed in the slow pace of that book. I recommend you continue on to book three — it’s well worth it.

Book three continues the rocky roller-coaster ride of a relationship between the main characters, Pim and Elder. These two very damaged and broken people can’t even get their own selves together, let alone be of any support to one another. As a reader, you really WANT them to overcome their individual issues, and you HOPE they can do this in time to salvage any kind of relationship.

As for the negatives, there are just a couple: 1. Pim does so much whining throughout this book (even while having sex) that I was ready to throw her off the yacht myself. 2. Eric Rolon, the male narrator, sounds like he is reading from cue cards or a teleprompter — flat and stiff throughout. The book needed a more emotional actor/narrator (e.g., Michael Pauley or Joe Arden) to perform as this complex male main character.

Highly recommended book nonetheless!!