The Laughing Listener
August 2019
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Lorelei King
Length: 9 hours & 14 minutes

Story Rating: 3.5 Stars
Performance Rating: 4 Stars
Overall Rating: 4 Stars

MAN have I been in a book rut lately. I don’t know why, but I recently I haven’t been able to bring myself to read anything but mindless trash romance. And when I was preparing for a road trip a few days ago, this presented a problem because I had no idea what to listen to in the car. In the end, I stumbled across this and decided to give it a go since I’ve been super curious about it for a while.

I have no idea why, but I thought this book was more of a romance for some reason?? And because of that I went into this with super low expectations, which actually did me a favor because it was waaaaay better than I thought it would be! This book is actually more plain urban fantasy than anything else and it was actually super refreshing to read something more plot driven. It’s a lot like Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse series (a personal guilty pleasure minus the last couple books, which I pretend don’t exist), but with more werewolves. There are the bare bones beginnings of a love triangle, but it hardly comes into play at all and I’m completely here for the slow burn.

Sign me up.

I also really loved all the characters! Mercy was actually pretty awesome and I like the bad ass mechanic vibes from her. I’m also already completely #TeamAdam and I’m excited to see more of the werewolf pack dynamics in the coming books. The vamps were cool to see too! I just had a lot of fun learning all about these characters and this universe. This being the first novel, there were definitely long stretches of text that felt information-dump-esque, but I never really minded because it was interesting to learn about.

Admittedly I do kinda get a major creeper vibe from Samuel, but I think that may just be me?? I don’t know. I understand why Mercy is drawn to him being her first love an all, but she was flipping 16 when they first fell for each other. And he’s like 200-ish years old?!?! I know he comes from a different time period and blah blah blah, but that’s creepy AS F*CK. I don’t trust that guy AT ALL.

No thank you

FINAL WORD

This was a super fun and easy werewolf urban fantasy book if you’re looking for something light.

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