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This is the third book in the Spade Hotel series, a billionaire romance, and romantic suspense. I loved it! Brady and Lily's story is captivating, passionate, and engaging, filled with mystery, danger, and twists and turns. Brady is handsome, alpha, and protective. Lily is beautiful, smart, and strong. They are perfect together. The tension, and the chemistry are sizzling hot. The storyline is intriguing, and enthralling. The supporting characters are great. I loved to see the characters from the first books in the series. Ava Erickson and Tor Thom did an outstanding job bringing these characters, and this story to life. I enjoyed it. Looking forward to listening to The Heartbreaker, the next book in the series. I highly recommend this series.

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✨️💚✨️Audio Book Review✨️💚✨️

Book: The Sinner
Author: Marni Mann
Rating: 5 stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

I absolutely loved this book so so so much.

There is so much unexpected suspense in this one, I was so shocked and it added so much to the story.

The spice was 🔥 and I found myself so intrigued in the FMC so quickly.

I really enjoyed the flight attendant aspect and I found the story to be super refreshing.

Throw in a crazy stalker ex ... yea I was hooked from start to finish.

You get:
• Spicy
• Dual POV
• Flight Attendant FMC
• One Night Stand
• Suspense
• Crazy Ex Boyfriend
• Billionaire MMC

I highly recommend this book! Available on KU, ebook, paperback, and audiobook.

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📚⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
🎧⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🔥🌶️🌶️🌶️

Dual narration by Ava Erickson & Tor Thom

• Close Proximity • Billionaire • DV Survivor • He Falls First • Touch Her & Die • Protective Alpha MMC •

Loved this one!! As far as the Spade brothers go, I think Brady might be my favorite. He knows what he wants and he goes for it. He doesn’t back down, and he won’t let a crazy ex stop him. I loved the morally gray route this one took.

Ava and Tor were a perfect pairing for this book. Excellent narration!

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I am simply *obsessed* with this series and The Sinner just made that obsession grow! Brady and Lily's story had so many tropes that I love. Not even sure where to start...
One night stand
Grumpy/sunshine
Billionaire/flight attendant
He. Falls. First. (I LOVE THIS ONE)
Extremely protective, touch her and die vibes.
I loved that there was some suspense mixed in twitch the ELITE spice that I have come to live from Marni Mann! An amazing story with wonderfully complex characters!

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Marni Mann is seriously the best person to go to when you need to read spice! I wasn’t expecting for Brady to win me over like this but this man came in strong with his obsessive, broody, over protective, self. I love a good he falls first & this man fell hard (love love love to see it) I think this story like was done really well, sometimes books with the women in danger can be paced really weird but I loved this one.

“I am turning you into a sinner…” “I was one long before you, baby.”

I am loving the crossover with all the characters, from the Dalton brothers to the Spade & Cole brothers. I think Brady might be my favorite sinner of them all. Although I’m excited to the series to keep going!

♠️ He Falls First
♠️ Billionaire Romance
♠️ Touch Her & 💀
♠️ Obsessive MMC 🥵
♠️ Protector

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holy cow......

This was a first for me. Marni Mann should absolutely go on my list for future reads/listens. This was steamy, electrifying, and a bit intense and scary. Brady Spade was sexy hot. He knew what he wanted and was not expecting for it all to knock him for a few loops. He never knew that this would happen to him or all that came along with her. Lily. Just Lily. We do not get a last name, but that was all okay. I was more enticed by the story unfolding. The encounter of them both being aware was connection goodness. Their coming together beyond that was gonna happen but who would have thought it would be so amazing. No one would have expected for her to just walk away. Brady mainly. The two get another chance, but that too is another walk away. Lily had a reason for everything she did. We did not see it all but when it came out as to why she was doing what she was doing it was clear that she was doing the right thing. The right thing that was working for her in the short term. Brady Spade was not going to let it all go like that.

I could go on and on. I could give more info but that is not what I want to do.. This was a good story with a flaw. I wanted to know, how. How was he doing all this? But that did not get answered so of course I just had to move on. This was a hit for me. Ava and Tor did good job.

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The Sinner (Spade Hotel #3) is a billionaire romance.

Lily and Brady’s connection was explosive from the beginning. I loved that Brady fell first and was able to push through her defenses and become her safe place. In their story you get a bit of angst, drama and an intense chemistry.

Ava Erickson and Tor Thom did a really nice job bringing these characters to life.

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I loved this insta-lust turned love story. In the beginning I thought this entire book would consist of Brady trying to fight his emotions. I’m so happy the story took a different route. The stalking gave the book a conflict without making the main characters fight each other and I loved that. As someone from Atlanta I also liked how the Author mentioned a few Atlanta specific things. While Lilly was just okay in my mind I loved Brady. He literally kept trying and fighting and taking care of his woman and it was amazing. I mean, he had a man killed and wanted to watch. Just to make sure she was safe. Lilly was nothing but a ball of anxiety all the time. I found it annoying but kept reminding myself if I was being stalked, I would be the same. Overall I loved this book the characters and the plot.

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Thank you to #Netgalley and #DreamscapeMedia for the ARC. The Sinner was full of tension, suspense and of course spice. Brady and lily's story starts fast, with lust and want. That turns to suspense, passion and love. I loved this book, it was a wild ride. Looking forward to the going back and reading book 1 and 2.

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Marni Mann is one of my go-to authors to read Billionaire Romance. It's not my go-to genre, but I like to read the good things in every genre.
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Lily is Brady's beautiful fly attendant on the first commercial flight he has taken in years. and from the first moment he sees her he can't stop thinking about her.
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After sharing a night together, she disappears as they had agreed and Brady begins to realize that he doesn't even know her last name.
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Six months later they meet again by chance and Brady realizes that it was not by mistake that he could not contact her again. Lily hides a secret and with that secret her entire life in a suitcase ready to run.
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Steamy scenes, perfect moments and an alpha man who becomes the sweetest and most attentive for the love of his life, willing to protect her and give his life for her.
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I don't want to give away spoilers, but I was really hoping something else would happen, I just don't know what. I have read other books by her and I didn't expect Brady to be capable or to get his way, but I love that Lily didn't judge him differently and that it's wasn´t a reason for a third act breakup
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The narration was smooth and Ava Erickson did a good job in Lily’s voice but I have to say that I enjoyed more Tor Thom, in the voice of Brady
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Thanks to Marni Mann and DreamScape media for give me a copy of this beautiful audio book in exchange for mi honest and voluntary opinion

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The Sinner is a spicy romance in the Spade Hotel series. Brady and Lily have an instant, undeniable attraction. Both are complex characters that I didn’t really understand. They were entrenched in their positions until they weren’t. It felt like they did a complete 180 without any reasoning. There is a lot left unsaid and more story development was needed for me to be immersed in their story.

Ava Erickson’s narration brought Lily to life. Tor Thom has a distinct voice that I enjoy. It didn’t match up to the character in this instance.

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✨ The Sinner ✨

Miss Mann came in HOT with the spice on this one. WOOOOAHHHH!!! If you are into grumpy, Alpha Males that are protective, possessive, and worship their women- you will LOVE Brady Spade. The physical attraction between Brady and Lily was dripping off the page. This felt so different from the first two books in the series- there was definitely some suspense and darker elements than normal and I was HERE FOR IT!

✨ Billionaire Romance
✨ Woman on the Run
✨ Suspense
✨ Possessive MMC
✨ Protective MMC
✨ He Falls First and Harder

📚 Book: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🔥Spice Rating: ❤️‍🔥

This book is a part of an interconnected series where characters overlap but it would be a really easy one to read on its own too!

Thank you so much to Marni Mann, Netgalley, and Valentine PR for this gifted ARC and ALC..


Spice Rating
🤍 clean romance
💗 closed door/ fade to black
❤️ sexual content (a few detailed scenes)
❤️‍🔥 explicit, play-by-play (major part of the plot)
🖤 graphic, more than vanilla

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(Audiobook listener)

I enjoyed this book a lot. The FMC was a great character. And the situation was cool and twisty. I wish the MMC was a bit darker (😂😂 maybe I read too much dark romance) but overall really enjoyed the book. The audiobook was great. I love Ava and Tor.

4⭐️
2🌶️
4🎧

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The Sinner is the third book in the Spade Hotel series but reads totally fine as a standalone, but I am definitely going back to read all the others. It is a fun,sweet, spicy, suspenseful romance and I was completely consumed. I love suspense with my romance and this one truly killed it. The chemistry off the bat was OFF THE CHARTS.

Brady is something.. what a man 🥵 he was so in love and obsessed with his girl it made my heart melt. He did EVERYTHING to keep his girl safe. The way he spoiled her and took care of her made me feel all giggly inside. Lilly grew so much during the book, I really loved her growth and how she let him in and let her guard down after what she's been living with her ex.

I gotta praise Mann for her no third act breakup, how the characters stuck through the hardships and just surmounted it together. Absolutely obsessed, loved every second, the suspense truly made it that much better.

🎧 The narration by Ava Erickson & Tor Thom was good. Was it my favorite, no. There were some things I didn't like and that felt off to me during the spicy moments, but the author's writing and storytelling was so good that it truly didn't matter in the end.

✨️Thank you to @netgalley, @dreamscapemedia & @marnimann for my gifted ALC in exchange for an honest review.

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The audio book version was great. I love how the audio books can bring the characters to life, the narrators were great. I loved the storyline as well. Lily and Brady....Lily - omg what a strong and fierce FMC - she was such a fighter with what she was going through. Brady...fell hard and I was here for it. I love when the MMC (especially a playboy one) falls so hard for the FMC. There is so much in this book, humor, lots of spice (made me blush, but again here for it), some tears, suspense and of course an HEA. I definitely recommend this audio book if you can - just brings another level!

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Full disclosure, I stopped listening about 1/3 of the way thru. Not a fan of the narrator, but liked the book. Will be finishig with the paper copy vs listening to the rest of the audio. Not the most polished author, sometimes she goes for shock factor and full on smut vs developing the story but when you need a little steam and romance this is an ok to go to. Part of a series but can definately read as a stand alone. Recommend book but not the audio.

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Brady and Lily meet on a flight and have an instant attraction. This part was a little bit boring for me because I dont usually enjoy instalust. But then it picks up when they meet months later and Brady gets to see Lily again after she snuck out the last time.

Lily has quite the backstory that affects a lot of the story and the way that Brady behaves. I think it made this book much darker then the other ones that I have read by Marni. But in the end, Brady would do absolutely anything for the woman that he loves.

I always enjoy Tor Thom as the alpha billionaire role. He was perfect for portraying Brady in his dark moments but also his swoony possessive in love moments. Ava Erickson was an amazing Lily and really brought her to life.

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Welcome back to Spade Hotel!

I am loving this series! It's spicy and filled with playboy billionaires and The Sinner is all about Brady. What starts as a one night stand turns into so much more for Brady. He had me swooning for his instant protectiveness and with everything he does for Lily. Lily and her backstory was such a surprise and really drew me into this book. They were perfect for each other!

I listened to the audio of The Sinner and loved Ava Erickson & Tor Thom!

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3.5 ⭐️
2.5 🌶️

If I rated on my experience listening on audio it was a 3 ⭐️ read overall.

I'll be honest and say i've avoided Marni's recent releases because the storylines felt rinse and repeat * 20.

Surprisingly this book had an altered storyline, however, the insta lust component and lack of character development was definitely still there. The MMC, Brady, was narrated by Tor Thom. While I loved Tor's voice for the male speaking parts, any female parts made me cringe. Every single time I heard is female voice I was pulled out of the story.

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This was my favorite one of the series so far! I really enjoyed the narration but the darker side of this storyline drew me in!

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