Very well written. It was an emotional and captivating read. ( )

Volunteering to listen to this book for review through Audiobook Jukebox, I have come to enjoy this series, Alluring Indulgence, by Nicole Edwards very much. In turn, I think that each has become my favorite, but I think I have truly found my favorite of the series with this, the 5th book of the series.

Alluring Indulgence is a spin-off series to Ms Edwards' Club Destiny series, this series focusing on the seven Walker sons, one at a time. Ethan is of the younger Walker boys. Ethan is gay and thinks he's in the closet, but everyone who matters to him and to whom he matters already knows this about him. There is much coming to terms, though, and opening up to possibilities for Ethan in this book.

This audiobook is nearly 12 and a half hours long (more than 500 pages in print); it clearly did not feel this long. Nicole Edwards adds much more to her story than a simplistic, straight-forward story of lust and sexy scenes. While her books include many sensual and sexual moments by the character(s) and their significant other(s), Ms Edwards gives you much more than surface pleasure -- you come away from her stories knowing her characters well, knowing how they react, reason, feel, and what is important to them. You come away knowing the whys and why nots.

Narrated by Robert Storm Peterson, Tristan Woods, Seraphine Valentine, I do have an issue with the narration. Up until now, the previous books of the series have used a male and a female narrators for the male and female points of view and the narration has seemed flawless. In this case, while the narrators did a fine job, one reader for Ethan's POV and the other for Beau's, the production team tears the listener's attention away from the story.

There were many, many occasions, more so in the middle third of the book than the first or final thirds, when sentences were "reread". Unfortunately, each occasion this happened, the reader's voice was not at the same volume, tone, pace or emotion of the moments before and after the rerecorded bits. Initially, I thought the other reader was coming in for the other character's thoughts or dialogue. Listening more closely, I decided this was an editing/production issue. For some reason, the narrator was to reread and have rerecorded certain sentences.

That is all well and good if the rerecording creates a more perfect end product. Unfortunately, all it served to do was pull this listener out of the story with the distraction. I am sure it is difficult for a reader/narrator to recreate the exact voice of a scene some days or weeks later. I believe this because the reread portions sounded completely out of place/out of scene from the narration leading up to and following the rerecorded segments. While this installment in the series remains my favorite so far, this distraction was not appreciated.

I have read a few M/M stories. This difference between this one and those is that this M/M story left me feeling the love and devotion these two men have for each other. If you are uncomfortable with gay relationships, even if you are okay with the occasional M/M sexual encounters, you may need to rethink reading this. If you are open to two people thoroughly and completely loving one another and discovering this love and building their relationship, you should find this story completely engaging. ( )

Absolutely awesome!!

Nicole Edwards owes me a nights sleep! I simply couldn't put it down. This is the best of the Alluring Indulgence series so far. It is a very emotional book and deals with some heavy issues. I adore Ethan and Beau, some of the most well written characters I've read in quite a while. Can't wait for more in this series, write faster Ms. Edwards! ( )

5 Emotional, Amazing, Powerful Stars!!!!!

I LOVED Ethan and Beau!!!!!!!

I can not wait for Braydon's Story!!!!!! ( )

For two months atop of the Best sellers list in Gay & Lesbian Erotica, Ethan was a book that picked my curiosity; I didn’t realized until I was basically clicking the buy button this was a 5th book in a series, and that the previous books are a various mix of ménages a trois, heterosexual romances, and now, with Ethan, strictly gay romance. Just to recap, I seem to understand that Ethan’s brother, Travis, is married to a woman, Kylie, but is also in a committed relationship with Gage; Kaleb, another brother, is married to Zoey, and from what I gathered, their is the only “ordinary” relationship, aside for a penchant for exhibitionism; Zane, the third brother, and Beau’s best friend, is married with V., but he was used to have ménages a trois with the same Beau, and he had one with his own wife and Beau, before this late decision that he wanted to find real love, and that with Zane was only a deep friendship, but not the real thing. BTW, the author hasn’t yet told their story, but there are also two twin brothers, and maybe there is something boiling there…

So yes, this author is exploring all the taboos of erotica, and is developing all the variations inside the same family, the Walker brothers, living in a small Texan town, and owning the local private, and adult club, Alluring Indulgence.

Considering I’m not a big fan of pure erotica, I was a little weary of reading this story, especially when it started at the club, on a New Year’s Eve, with Beau witnessing Ethan having sex with his own boyfriend, Blake. True, Blake wasn’t really a nice character, and it was clear he was soon out of the picture, and indeed the story took a positive turn, from my point of view, after that event. I liked the slow but hot development of the love story between Ethan and Beau, I love how these were adult men but with a sort of naiveté regarding relationship: sex they knew, love was uncharted territory. The sex was hot, and yes, considering this is an erotic romance, it was abundant, but, very much strict to my taste: a one to one relationship between two men, no funny games, hot, sweat and skin. Oh yes, and the classical shower sex scene ;-) but that is almost a must in erotic romance (has happened also to you that since starting reading erotic romance, when entering a new bathroom, you look at the shower with different eyes? )

So yes, to my taste, this was almost perfect, the almost given only by some quirky point that irked me, but didn’t deter from reading the whole book: for example, telling me three times in the span of few pages that Jared just came out of nowhere beginning of January was probably overdoing it; unless it wasn’t really important for me to know it, but it wasn’t. (So, needless to say, they’d butted heads since the day Jared showed up right around the first of the year. (p. 27); Now that Blake wasn’t working for them , Ethan wondered if that would help the strained relationship that had started to develop since the first week of January when Jared had shown up out of the blue (p. 28); The other was occupied by Jared, Ethan’s cousin, who had practically dropped out of the sky on New Year’s Day and landed smack dab in the middle of Walker Demolition (p. 44)). Other than that, a very satisfying reading, an erotic romance that was at the same time “romantic” (not sweet of course, but well, I had the feeling these men like to cuddle…)

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