Coming out romance for an MMA fighter

Lawrence is a professional MMA fighter, trained by his homophobic and controlling father. Lawrence has gone to great lengths to stay in the closet, including marrying his BFF, Lorie, but when he meets Mat, things must change. This was a straightforward, heartfelt coming-out romance. I felt the story zipped along a bit fast, especially the resolutions, and could have gone deeper. I would have also liked more of the backstory between Lawrence and Lorie marrying and divorcing and a lot more of Mat’s backstory. 🎧 I liked Mitchell Pett’s regional UK accent and his handling of emotion, although I found his narration a little halting in places. I had to concentrate to distinguish between the names Lawrence and Lorie.
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I received a free copy of the audiobook and volunteered this honest review.

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Out-for-you, MMA fighter romance

I liked this story. Fighters and out-for-you sports romance are always a plus.
Although I must admit that I was not super fond of Lawrence: for how much of a great and caring father, ex-husband and best friend he is, he really came across as a bit of a pushover and almost careless sometimes in his behaviour towards Mat. That being said he eventually gets his geese in a row and makes up for his foolishness.
I absolutely loved the extended family, with little Sam being so cute.
The audio was exceptional. I think it really gave an extra boost to the story as Mitchell Pet really did an awesome job of bringing the characters to life!

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as good as the ebook

The story is always 4-5 stars, because if I wouldn't like the story as ebook, I wouldn't listen to the audiobook. I can't listen to an audiobook without knowing the book, that's not possible for me.

The performance from the narrator is also very important for me. I can't listen to a lot, because my English as a non-native-speaker isn't so perfect to follow a whole story over hours, when the narrator speaks too fast or too sloppy. Normally I have to SEE the person, who is talking to me in English. It took me a little bit, to come into the narrator, but at the end, it worked. I only have to take a few breaks between. I'm just not yet finish with the book, I’m over the half, but I listen enough to give a review.

PLEASE READ MY RATING SYSTEM!!!

To my ratings:

5* - very very good
it's like an A+

4* - very good and will be often re-listening
it's like an A

3* - it's more then a one-time-listening.
it's like a B

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MMA fightee, fights to be himself

Lawrence has been in the closet his whole live, mostly due to his bigoted dad.He and his bff had even gone as far as being married for both there benefits. Now they are divorced and Matt wants to be out after finding Matt. Matt had his own struggles. Maybe in another story we can get more of his background. In the end Lawrence comes out and has his hfn/ hea with Matt. Narration by Mitchell Pett is with an UK accent. As a none native speaker I could follow it clearly, it actually gave the whole setting an extra layer. However sometimes it was hard to differentiate between certain names. The author was new to me, I would certainly buy more books from JF Holland
I would recommend this book. This audiobook was given to me for free.

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Coming Out Fighting!

A lovely story about to stand true to youself - even if it means that you have to loose the ones you love.
I am happily suprise with all the feeling the men felt.

The narrtor Michell Pett did a good job.

The author JF Holland are new to me and I´m looking forward with her other books.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

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Very good

This is one of my favourite story’s and hearing it being bought to life just added to my love for it..
I loved the voice of the narrator he took JF Holland’s words and gave them feelings and realness..An absolute joy for my ears.

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Beautiful just beautiful...

I have listened to this wonderful audiobook in one sitting , it is honestly such an awesome audio.
A difficult story line as I can never understand bigotry or hatred ...
Love is Love and families are all different ,
Great words written with such wonderful characters each and everyone had substance.
Wonderful narration by Matt Pett...
I cried so many happy tears , I can't give enough praise for this audio book..
I shall miss the characters ..so I am listening again now.....

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Written so well

This book made me think. It’s hard to imagine people have still got issues with people in same-sex relationships. With great writing skill this author definitely portrays how hard it is for a man in a male dominated career to open up and tell the world who he loves. With good likeable characters and a difficult subject to broach, I found this storyline a winner. A fantastic performance from Mitchell.

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Not bad.

This is the first book I’ve read by JF Holland and the first audiobook I’ve listened to by Mitchell Pett. As a midwestern US gal, it took me a while to get used to the heavy accent used by the narrator but after a chapter or two, I didn’t have any problem understanding him. I’ve listened to a lot of narrators with all different kinds of accents and I usually don’t have any problems. I do think that his voice could have been a bit “crisper” which would have probably made him easier to understand from the get-go.

As for the story, I felt like there was too much repeating of information that we already had received. I do want to say that the story got better as it went along but the ending seemed somewhat unrealistic given the way Lawrence’s father was throughout the book; I felt his about-face happened a bit too quickly.

I probably wouldn’t relisten to this audiobook but I wouldn’t say no to listening to more by this author and/or narrator.

A complimentary copy of this audiobook was provided to me at my request but my review was voluntary and not influenced by the author and/or narrator.

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