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SPICE
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RECOMMEND
💳 yes*

I’m glad that Hunter and her men got the happily ever after they deserved. Even though I ended up fast fastfowarding througha majority of the story, the narration was good.

It's kind of surreal to finally be at the end of this series. It has been an emotional rollercoaster full of grief, mental health challenges, overwhelming love, acceptance, spice, and so many other things. The way that this group comes together and loves each other is absolutely beautiful and the way they work together to ensure Hunter's health, wellbeing and happiness is perfect. I loved so many things about this finale and I thought it was the perfect conclusion to what has been a wonderful ride.

The audiobooks have been so good and I love that a whole cast narrated this series. It really brought so much more to the series to have so many unique voices for these characters.

I loved this audiobook, the whole series is so good but listening to it just takes the story to another level. The narrators did such a great job of bringing the characters to life, meaning I was totally absorbed in the story, again!

3.5⭐️ I came here for the great Abby spice and it delivered. 🔥Happy to see this series conclude, for me it didn’t hit as well as the Boys of Lake Chapel but I am always down for a good happily ever after.

Nice bonus touch to get Joey and the boys with cameos in this one.

I adore Greedy and Levi, to me they could have just ran away and live happily ever after. Sione felt expendable to me.

Thank you to NetGalley, Valentine PR and Abby Milsaps for the advanced listening copy all my opinions are my own.

I originally read an eARC directly from the author, and was so excited to also be sent an audio copy! My thoughts:

The story:
This series is so so special, and while I am so sad that it’s now over - this was the PERFECT ending for our favorite cohort. Abby’s series have a way of breaking your heart and putting it back together (several times). I love these characters like they’re my real friends. She handled all the delicate topics in not only this book, but the whole series, so beautifully. Her writing has such a way of brining out every single emotion.

Aaaaand as expected, the spice is this book is TOP. NOTCH. The group breeding scene………. I still haven’t recovered!

Narration:
This cast works so well together - I love that each MMC gets his own narrator, this helps really set them apart in audio, just like they are in the actual writing. I have to mention that June has become one of my absolute favorite narrators after listening to her in this series. She brings such genuine emotion into her performance and it's exquisite. She has a fan for life from her performance in this.

Thank you so much to Abby for this copy! I love rereading via audio and loving the story even more.

Updating review to include how I feel about the audio: OMG THE AUDIO ABOUT TOOK ME OUT! IT WAS INCREDIBLE! Everything that I expected, as the same narrators are in this one as the previous audios, and they did a phenomenal job! It is dual narration, and all of the different narrators did a great job bringing every character to life, and made this an incredible listening experience! So HOT, so beautiful, just, ugh EVERYTHING!

I am so so sad that this series is over, but omg did I absolutely LOVE IT!

I loved the journey that Hunter and her cohort were on throughout the series, and this conclusion is just the best way to wrap up their story! All of them, even Spence, grew so much & even though they aren't perfect, they were perfect for each other.

If you read So Rare, you know that the cliffy was a doozy! The way it brought up so many emotions for Hunter, Greedy, and even Levi made me just want to hug them all! The other side of this was that it made Hunter really think about what she wanted family wise, & man did it get HOT HOT HOT with Greedy (he'll forever be my favorite, I'm not sorry!). Spence is the literal definition of a mastermind though, so it had to happen to protect Hunter, & help along his overall plan.

Seeing Spence let down his guard with Sione made me weep! It was such a beautiful part of the book! You'll know it when you get there!

This could go on for days, but I highly recommend this one, and the entire series! I love love love these characters, their love, their dynamics, & how they just took hold of my heart! The spice is spicin', as well as the love is LOVE'in!

PS: EFF MAGNOLIA! I don't feel one ounce of sympathy for her hehe

DNF @ 47%

This was not a bad book by any means. The narrators gave a good performance, and I liked that there was a different narrator for each male lead. While I always love a duet narration performance, I know how expensive they are. I imagine this audio was already expensive with different narrators, however, I do think duet would have helped, because every male narrator did their own version of the FMCs voice. So sometimes I wasn't sure if the FMC was speaking or a female side character.

None of the above is the reason I ultimately decided to DNF this audiobook. I DNFed, because I already had low investment into this series because I found it frustrating that every book ended with the introduction of another new love interest. Don't get me wrong, I love a why choose. But I found it frustrating each time I felt like I got to know the love interests, become invested in their character and story and suddenly everything was being disrupted by another new character. <--- again, not the reason I DNFed, because while frustrating, I always ended up loving the new MMC and got passed it.

However, what really sent me over the edge was the endless baby talk. I mean zero disrespect to people who have or want children and I don't mean to be insensitive towards those who struggle to conceive or have lost babies. But it felt like every single conversation in this book was some variation of: your pregnant! Just kidding you're not actually, BUT you will need to pretend to be pregnant, reliving the trauma of a miscarriage that these characters seriously need therapy to process and screaming out "put a baby in me" during spicy scenes. It was SO MUCH about babies. It felt like every single conversation and inner monologue somehow brought up a baby. And as someone who doesn't typically care for the accidental pregnancy trope, etc. in books and the fact that I got married in September and have people constantly asking me about when I'm going to get pregnant, it unexpectedly triggered (not in a traumatic way, but in a gave me the major ick way).

Again, this is very much as case of it's not a bad book, just not for me particularly not for me at this time in my life. Which is why I'm still rating the book 3 stars here. Because at the end of the day, I like this series, these characters (even though they drive me crazy), and I probably would have enjoyed the rest of this book in normal circumstances. I just can't handle it right now.

Such a good ending to the series. Our cohort of love has found their happily ever after after no short supply of drama from the crazy mom. I found the demise of the evil mother quite satisfying. Overall I love how this ended and where our group ended up. Perfect ending to the series. As for the narrators most are great but not all are good at all of the different accents. Though it was only mildly annoying.

This was amazing. This series is so good and hearing my fave characters come to life with these amazing narrators was 10/10!!!! Those epilogues were so good too!

I listened to the audiobook, which was great! The narrators did an amazing job.
What an ending to the series! It’s been a wild ride with so many ups and downs, and it was wrapped together beautifully. Hunter and her guys went through a lot in this book as well, but the growth was amazing.

The storyline picked up right where it left off in the last book, and it brought new difficulties and hardships. I loved the plot to spice ratio, and the epilogues were so great. I loved to see how their lives changed and how much they achieved through the years. This whole series was so interesting and I loved every character ✨