Given my newish love of audiobooks, I am adding them to my review lineup! If you haven’t tried listening to a book, I highly recommend it. Audiobooks weren’t on my radar at all until a few years ago when I fell in love with Tamara Leigh’s excellent audiobooks and now they are all I listen to when I am in the car.
Synopsis:~
A leather-bound journal. A single father. A woman in pursuit of freedom.
Garner Bradford, heir to the troubled Bradford Shipping empire, doesn’t know much about babies. But he’s going to have to learn fast, because he’s just become a single father to his newborn daughter. As he confesses through his journal entries, he’s not entirely sure how to keep a newborn alive, whether or not he’ll ever patch together his shattered heart, or how to forgive himself for his mistakes.
Career girl Kathleen Burke is wholly uninterested in settling down. She has big dreams, and none of them include Garner and his small hometown in Washington State. Yet she can’t seem to get her handsome boss out of her head or her heart. There’s something extraordinarily tempting about his beautifully sad green eyes….
Told through journal entries, phone conversations, and letters, Then Came You is a unique, heart-stirring romance novella by acclaimed author Becky Wade.
My take:~
Having already read and enjoyed this epistolary novella from the talented Becky Wade, I was delighted by how much the narrators made the story come alive, like I was experiencing it for the first time. Both narrators are excellent, though Ryan Hudson voicing Garner and infusing the emotions the character wrestles with, was perfection. A beautiful story, only enhanced by the narration, is well worth listening to many times over. Then Came You is one of the best audiobook experiences I have enjoyed.
With thanks to the author for my audiobook review copy. I have provided Becky Wade with Author Support Services. My views remain my own.
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June 24, 2018 at 1:25 am
Hallo, Hallo Rel,
I agree with you whole-heartedly! Since audiobooks came into my life in [2016] I have felt incredibly blessed by them! For me, I needed to find a way to segue out of reading print books exclusively as due to my chronic migraines, as the worst clusters of headaches attack me, the harder it is for me to shift back into reading. Whereas with audiobooks, I find it a more gentle segue of re-alignment! Aside from this, I’ve had the joy of listening to such a lovely cross-section of audiobook genres and narrators – I truly am addicted to hearing them now! Such a special treat!
When I first heard Garner’s story-line, I had trouble sorting out the Epistolary elements through the audiobook – as the transitions were hard at first to feel clued into but once I found my rhythm with them, I understand the flow better. I was used to these elements in print, but hadn’t heard how they would sound in audio.
Garner’s story is one of my favourites in the series – the dedication he had to his daughters and the hope he had of finding true love,.. there is so much soulfulness in this novella, it was a beautiful testament of redemption, forgiveness and second chances! I need to read your fuller thoughts – like you, I liked the choice in male narrator, who truly did a great job at bringing Garner to life! I even liked this was a dual narrative between two narrators which is quite rare!
June 28, 2018 at 7:03 pm
Jorie » Thanks for sharing, Jorie. I’m a fellow migraine sufferer, so I do understand. Sorry you struggle with them 🙁 I’ve only become an audio book fan in the last few years, but I’m definitely hooked.