Sunday, November 1, 2020

BOOK BLITZ Audio w/REVIEW - CONTEMPORARY - ADVENTUROUS ME (Bliss, #1) by Deanndra Hall Narrator Anneliese Rennie

Adventurous Me

Blitz, #1
by Deanndra Hall
Release Date: November 1st 2020
Publisher: Spectrum Audiobooks
Genre: BDSM

"Boring? Tiresome? Predictable? We'll see about that."

When Trish's husband of almost 30 years announces that he's leaving her because she's "boring", she sets out to find an adventure. Her attempt to drink her heartbreak away drops her onto a handsome gentleman who invites her to have an adventure, and Trish can't help but say yes.

She embarks on that adventure, but her path keeps crossing with that of another - Clint Winstead, a Dominant at the club Bliss and the one person in the place who seems to despise her. And that's fine with Trish. After all, there are plenty of other Doms there who want to play.

But when an annual event at the club throws Trish and Clint together for two weeks, both of them are horrified, not by the pairing, but by the feelings they're trying hard to deny. As the time passes, it's harder and harder to deny what they know is true - that is, until one nearly-tragic incident that almost changes both their lives irreparably. And when Trish realizes that continuing on with her commitment could cost her the ultimate - her life - she knows that it has to end. But does it?

Trish is the queen of second chances. But this second chance might just come at a price too high to pay. A little adventure is a good thing, but perhaps she's gotten far more adventure than she can handle.

Warning: This book contains explicit sexual situations and BDSM themes. It is not suitable for listeners under the age of 18. Listener discretion is advised.

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The Book Junkie Reads . . . Audio Review of . . . ADVENTUROUS ME (Bliss, #1) . . . If Trish was boring, tiresome, and or predictable, I could not find it. She did things for the first time with gusto and excitement. Trish finds herself in a funk filled haze of "AmI?" swirling in her head because of an ex that had no cue. While in this funk she meets Dave. Dave introduces her to a world that she could have only imagined. Her first night at Bliss opens her eyes to that something that was missing from her world.

Trish finds that her new found her has a bit of kinky side. She finds that she is freer than ever. She finds an attraction that would lead to her world being changed forever. She also learns she is stronger than her ex gave her credit for. This was most certainly an adult story. There were floggers, gags, benches, public sex, stranger sex, humiliation and more. Trish found her life at a point to decide should she or shouldn't she.

This was a complete first person narrative told from Trish's viewpoint. I loved that she found herself. I hated that she let her new found self almost be trampled out of existence. Anneliese Rennie brought Trish's new world into a clearer perspective. I found a few areas that felt like gaps existed. I found areas that just plain made me angry. I found that I had to finish it because I had to know more than just the ending.

Deanndra Hall is a working author living in the far western end of the beautiful Bluegrass State with her husband of over 35 years and small menagerie of weird little dogs. When she’s not writing, she’s editing. When she’s doing neither of those two things, she’s having dinner with friends, spending time with family, kayaking, eating chocolate, drinking beer or moonshine, or looking for something that she put in the wrong place and can’t seem to find (which is pretty much everything she owns).

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Monday, April 29, 2019

SPOTLIGHT Audio - FANTASY POST-APOCALYPTIC - RADIOACTIVE EVOLUTION by Richard Hummel Narrators: Armen Taylor, Anneliese Rennie

RADIOACTIVE EVOLUTION
by Richard Hummel
Narrators: Armen Taylor, Anneliese Rennie
Length: 15 hours and 27 minutes
Released: March 15th 2019

Publisher: Hummel Books
Genre: Fantasy, Post-apocalyptic

How far would you go to change humanity's fate?

Jared Cartwright grew up in a loving, caring community, completely isolated from the horrors of the outside world. When tragedy leaves him alone and untethered, Jared sets out to explore the unknown; a world where twisted, scarred creatures roam an earth ravaged by nuclear war while the rich fled to the skies on floating utopias, escaping destruction and leaving the rest of humanity to die.

To face his new reality, Jared must learn to survive in a cold, harsh world. A twist of fate changes Jared's destiny when he discovers dragons are real. The dragon unlocks a hidden technology within his body, giving him powers he never imagined existed.

With deadly adversaries above and below, he must evolve beyond mere human limitations to defeat the powerful rulers of the cities and the rabid beasts lurking in the shadows.

How did I get started as a writer? It isn't some magical moment or literary genius that bonked me on the head. Nope, it's quite a bit more mundane than that. I started reading this genre called LitRPG (Gamelit is the parent genre), which basically combines MMORPG with Science Fiction & Fantasy. Cool, right? Yep, I thought it was too. Basically, I started by joining a ton of groups, mailing lists, and Discord servers talking to readers, authors, and professionals in the industry. It got to the point where I'd continually bounce ideas around until one day I realized that I had more than enough ideas to create my own world and characters. Then I just buckled down, picked up a copy of Scrivener and went to work. The rest is probably boring to most of you, but that's the gist of it and here we are! By day I am a cyber security analyst and father of two beautiful girls and a little boy on the way! My wife and I are excited/anxious to have a boy in the family and looking forward to new adventures.

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Growing up, my cousins and I were raised on the stories of my grandmother; her tales of traveling the world, of funny encounters with famous people, of watching – red faced – as Imelda Marcos serenaded my grandfather at a black tie function. Each telling seemed to be a little better, a little funnier and, even if we’d heard it a dozen times before, she made the punch lines land as fresh as ever. As I got older I dabbled in creative writing and sought to find that voice in myself. After graduating from Brown University in 2010 with a Bachelor’s Degree in History (Early Modern European with a focus on colonialism to be exact, but that’s a bit of a mouthful), I enrolled in a two-year acting program at the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts. It seemed a revelation to me that I wanted to become an actor, but when I told my family, they shrugged and said, “Yeah, that makes sense.” Upon completing my course of study in New York I did what so many young actors do and moved to Los Angeles. In my time here I have been fortunate enough to study with a slew of talented coaches, mentors and performers including: Lesly Kahn, Nancy Wolfson, Mick Wingert, Charlie Adler, Debi Derryberry, Pat Fraley, Donna Grillo, Tony Oliver & Julie Maddalena, Joyce Castellanos, Gene Cordes, Ben Patrick Johnson, Scott Brick, Kirk Baltz, Jeff Howell, the MoCap Vaults team, and some great improvisers at iOWest. Each of these people has helped to lead me a little further down the path that my grandmother started me out on when I was just a kid. Whether it is a commercial voice over, a web series, an audiobook or a lone line of dialogue on a TV show – it is all part of story telling. And that is exactly what I do.

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Anneliese is a skilled narrator with a warm mezzo voice and many titles in romance, Sci-Fi Fantasy and non-fiction to her credit. A background in classical music radio and opera give her a particular facility with foreign languages. She is currently voicing multiple characters for a Fallout New Vegas mod. She also happens to be one of the driving forces behind Spectrum Audiobooks. Feel free to chat with her on Facebook or Twitter about the company.