Audiobook This Much Is True by Adriana Locke

 Audiobook This Much Is True

By: Adriana Locke

Narrated by: Shiloh James, Lance Greenfield

Series: Marshall Family Series

Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins

Release date: 07-02-24

 

Taken from Goodreads:  When celebrity Laina Kelley bolted from her small hometown church on her wedding day, she ran to the first place that came to mind—the home of the local farrier, a gorgeous playboy who just so happens to be her first love … and biggest frenemy.

USA Today bestselling author Adriana Locke delivers a new “sweet and spicy!” standalone romance about a runaway bride who finds herself in the arms, and horse barn, of her deliciously handsome frenemy—who just so happens to be her first love.
 
This isn’t your average romance. It begins with me in a wedding dress, just not at an altar …
 
I never expected to be a runaway bride. I also never thought I’d end up on my ex’s doorstep to flee from said wedding. Now that I’m here, it’s easy to find the key in an old boot by the door and let myself inside. It’s not breaking and entering if I have a key, right?
 
It’s safe to say that Luke Marshall didn’t expect to find me on his couch in my wedding dress, my veil over my face in tears. He has no choice but to listen to my panic-induced plea for salvation. It’s only a matter of time before the tabloids get wind of my disappearing act, and my life is over.
 
Luke takes pity on me and says I can stay… on one condition.
 
I can’t sing for my supper—I have to earn it. I have to work in the barn alongside him, up to my elbows in horse manure. Oh—and because there’s only one bed, I get the couch.
 
This works … in theory. However, when sparks start flying, and the small-town farrier asks me to stay, I’ll have to decide between my life as a pop star or a second chance with my first love.

 

My Thoughts:  I listened to this audiobook in one day, while working.   This is my first from Adriana Locke and her narrators, Shiloh James and Lance Greenfield.  The narrators were good at bringing the characters and their stories to life. 

A runaway bride and second chance romance storyline are fun. I enjoyed watching Laina figure out life out of the spotlight.  Luke is the perfect person to show her the way to live a happy life.     From the moment Luke found Laina in his house the sparks were flying but there was caution to be taken.   A broken heart, again, would not be good for either of them.   They were cautious but open to figuring out what was still between them, if anything. 

There were some parts where I felt the male narrator was too matter of fact and off on his voice and that bothered me but the story was enough to carry me through those parts.  This Much is True is a fun listen and I look forward to hearing more of her stories.

Thank you Valentine PR for a copy of the book via Audible in exchange for my honest review,

 

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Meet Adriana Locke: USA Today Bestselling author, Adriana Locke, writes contemporary romances about the two things she knows best—big families and small towns. Her stories are about ordinary people finding extraordinary love with the perfect combination of heart, heat, and humor.

She loves connecting with readers, fall weather, football, reading alpha heroes, everything pumpkin, and pretending to garden.

Hailing from a tiny town in the Midwest, Adriana spends her free time with her high school sweetheart (who she married over twenty-five years ago) and their four sons (who truly are her best work). Her kitchen may be a perpetual disaster, and if all else fails, there is always pizza.

Learn more at adrianalocke.com.