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    Riven
    Riven
    Riven
    Audiobook8 hours

    Riven

    Written by Roan Parrish

    Narrated by Chris Chambers and Iggy Toma

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Theo Decker might be the lead singer of Riven, but he hates being a rock star. The paparazzi, the endless tours, being recognized everywhere he goes-it all makes him squirm. The only thing he doesn't hate is the music. Feeling an audience's energy as they lose themselves in Riven's music is a rush unlike anything else . . . until he meets Caleb Blake Whitman. Caleb is rough and damaged, yet his fingers on his guitar are pure poetry. And his hands on Theo? They're all he can think about. But Caleb's no groupie-and one night with him won't be enough.

    Just when Caleb is accepting his new life as a loner, Theo Decker slinks into it and turns his world upside-down. Theo's sexy and brilliant and addictively vulnerable, and all Caleb wants is another hit. And another. That's how he knows Theo's trouble. Caleb can't even handle performing these days. How the hell is he going to survive an affair with a tabloid superstar? But after Caleb sees the man behind the rock star, he begins to wonder if Theo might be his chance at a future he thought he'd lost forever.

    Contains mature themes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 27, 2018
    ISBN9781541445451
    Riven
    Author

    Roan Parrish

    Roan Parrish lives in Philadelphia, where she’s gradually attempting to write love stories in every genre. When not writing, she can be found cutting her friends’ hair, meandering through the city while listening to torch songs and melodic death metal, or cooking overly elaborate meals. She loves bonfires, winter beaches, minor chord harmonies, and self-tattooing. One time she may or may not have baked a six-layer chocolate cake and then thrown it out the window in a fit of pique.

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    • 4/5
      The story is fine but the narrator, Caleb’s narrator really made it difficult to get through. The breathing in between is quite distracting. Honestly, I almost abandoned the book because of it. It’s really annoying tbh
    • 3/5
      So…I did like this one, but I think I was irritated by the narrators. I’ve listened to other books with both of these narrators before and don’t remember having any issues but this time they both annoyed me. Theo’s narrator was okay when he was reading Theo’s dialogue, but when he was narrating the actual prose, he had a weird nasal sound that was irritating. That would have been okay but it was his narration of Caleb’s dialogue that was really the problem because his voice, in an attempt to make him feel older than Theo, tipped entirely too far and he sounded like a guy in his late 50s where he was only meant to be mid 30’s.
      Caleb’s narrator on the other hand was mostly okay when he was reading either character’s dialogue and they sounded like appropriately hot guys in the age bracket they were previously mentioned as being, but when he switched from dialogue back to prose, it was like a drone who was reading the phone book took over.
      I liked the story, though it moved a bit slowly, but there were some good tugs at the heart strings and the smut factor was pretty strong, just a shame about the narration choices.
    • 4/5
      I loved Caleb and admired his strength, but I was unsure about Theo. Most of the time I was under the impression he needed a therapist more than anything else and that he was forming an unhealthy attachment to Caleb because of his issues. It all worked out in the end, but I've spent the whole book wondering which way Theo will go as a character and feeling uncomfortable about it.
    • 5/5
      This book that may not be for everyone. Not even die hard romance lovers as it involves a same sex couple. I don't want anyone to be surprised or offended when finding this out. I did find it was good to know that you didn't have to be a fan of the rock scene or 17 years old, to appreciate or understand the music. These people genuinely loved their music and treated it as a part of their very hearts and souls.. What is beautiful foremost about this book is the way the author…Roan Parrish…writes about the music and the guys that play it. If music could morph into a solid material it would literally roll off the pages when she describes it. Not all of the story can be described as "beautiful'...But it is hopeful. Throughout the novel, we get to watch these messy, broken men find pieces of themselves they didn’t even recognize were even missing…and we see them become stronger individuals. Parrish also did an incredible job with Caleb’s addictions and accurately depicting the ways addictions can rule a life, even when sobriety is achieved. They’re always around the corner waiting. Caleb’s struggles to resist were both heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time…but with Theo he had a second chance. I love the last paragraph and line that described them listening to the song that Theo wrote for Caleb. “The song that gathered inside me, that I had held inside all these months…the song that told him all the things he already knew, but in the language we both felt deeper than words.”
    • 5/5
      This was beautiful. I absolutely loved it.