I have mixed feelings about this book - and the series in general, as it continues on.
I love the overall story arc, generally like the characters, the humor, the more serious parts, the suspense, etc. This book allowed us to get to know Thayne's mom & Jarrett's dad a bit more too, which was enjoyable. The humor was also very necessary with this book, because there were some SERIOUSLY dark moments, (if there's not a trigger warning for torture, here it is - you've been warned. Though if you've gotten this far, you've already been through some pretty dark stuff). I am in rapt suspense throughout every book and this one was no different.
BUT there are a few things that are irksome in this series:
1) The repetition of words, phrases & general sentiments - I'm getting twitchy with the word "stunning," which Logan sometimes uses multiple times within a paragraph or two throughout this series. There's also "beautiful," "this man," (in place of "him"), etc., etc. I also don't need to be told again what color each of their eyes are, "Bahama blue" and "ice blue," or how lucky they each feel to be together, or how in love & lust, yada yada. There's just way too much internal monologuing with the same points.
2) There's some real misogyny throughout the series - people acting certain ways being referred to acting "like a girl," or "being a pussy," or "pussying out," and how the female agent in their crew is petite & pretty, but she's also a great shot & fighter. And I'm about done with hearing about how Jarrett feels different about bottoming now than he did before Thayne, b/c he thought it made him less than a man to do it before, (which makes me wonder how he felt about his partners who bottomed for him).
3) While the sex scenes are hot, I feel like there are reaching too many. I mean, maybe it's because I've been binging the series through box sets & so it's like one long book for me, but I'm growing numb to them & finding them a lot less scintillating. Again, that could be because I'm binging it.
But despite my gripes, I'm still hooked in & want to read the other semi-related series before & after. I'm just a glutton for punishment, I guess.
So far as the audio narration - this one was mostly okay - not quite as good as the previous books. Dean kinda did the voice I'm not fond of that he often uses for older women for Thayne's mom, but she didn't sound too oddly British, so there's that. He was really weird with Mac though, a side character introduced the previous book. Dean kept changing his mind on how to voice him this book - sometimes within an extremely short period of time - giving him an inexplicable brogue & then backing off of it to a regular standard American accent with a gruff voice, which made more sense, since although he's of Scottish descent, there's no indication that he hasn't spent his life in the US. Beyond that, the narration was good. I don't know how on point his accent is for Jarrett - I think it's a little thicker than it needs to be sometimes, based on the way it's said that Jarrett speaks with a thick accent only when he's in certain circumstances, but he's got me thinking & almost speaking with a Southern accent myself from listening to it.
As I said, I'm still hooked & have already gotten about an hour or two into the next book, but it is with a certain amount of eyerolls.