AUDIOBOOK REVIEW TOUR - PROS & CONS 1 AND 2
Five men. Five chances for Redemption. One thing’s for sure, they’re no angels.
BOOK 1
Book Title: Pros & Cons of Vengeance
Author: A. E. Wasp
Publisher: Tantor
Narrator: Tor Thom & Alexandre Steele
Release Date: April 2019
Genre: M/M Romantic suspense/romantic comedy
Trope/s: Bodyguard. Leverage meets Charlie’s Angels but more gay
Themes: Vengeance
Heat Rating: 4 flames
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
It is a standalone story.
Blurb
There’s nothing like being blackmailed by a dead man to really bring a group of cons together. And what a group we are: a hacker, a thief, a con artist, a thug, and a Federal agent with an axe to grind. The deal is simple, we do the jobs and Charlie’s lawyer wipes the slate clean for each of us, one at a time.
Since job number one calls for some muscle, it looks like I’m up first. I’m Steele Alvarez, ex-Special Forces Close Protection Specialist (aka, a bodyguard for some not so nice guys).
After learning what the job is — taking down a seemingly untouchable senator with a penchant for beating up young male prostitutes — I’m in. No questions. A bullet ought to do the trick.
Then I met Senator Harlan’s latest victim: Breck Pfeiffer, the gorgeous hooker with a heart of gold and the soul of a fighter. One look at him and I’m gone. That kid laid me out harder than any punch ever did. I’ll do anything to protect Breck, even kill for him. But Breck doesn’t want the senator dead, he wants vengeance.
If we’re going to find a way to bring down the slimebag and get the blackest mark on my record erased, I’m going to need all the help I can get.
Like it or not, we’re all in this together.
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BOOK 2
Book Title: Pros & Cons of Deception
Author: A. E. Wasp
Publisher: Tantor
Narrator: Tor Thom & Alexandre Steele
Release Date: June 2019
Genre: M/M Romantic suspense/romantic comedy
Trope/s: Fake boyfriends. Leverage meets Charlie’s Angels but more gay
Themes: Justice
Heat Rating: 4 flames
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
It is a standalone story but it helps to read the first one.
Blurb
There's nothing like being blackmailed by a dead man to really bring a group of cons together. The deal is simple, we do the jobs and Charlie's lawyer wipes the slate clean for each of us, one at a time.
Job number two lands right in my lap. I'm Bond. Wesley Bond. (I can't resist saying it that way. Blame my dad, if you can find him.) You could call me a hacker. I redistribute wealth - moving it from rich slimebags to poorer but infinitely more deserving people - and make a tidy profit as I do. My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to bring down some modern-day slave traders.
With the life of the one person in this world I love on the line, I can't afford any screw-ups or distractions. Unfortunately, my biggest distraction is my biggest asset - Danny Monroe. Danny is a leftover complication from our first job. He's a smart, funny, gorgeous ex-prostitute, who can't seem to keep his clothes on. I can't seem to keep my mouth shut around him. But I need a fake boyfriend, and Danny is the only option.
We don't know who the bad guy is; we have no idea how to prove anything. If I'm going to do this, I'm going to need all the help I can get. Like it or not, we're all in this together.
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My Two Pennies' Worth
This is a great concept, bringing together a band of misfits, legally shady types, and just outright criminals with their hearts in the right places and have them forced into working five jobs together. And on the way those five bond and gel into a real team, and might just find love, though so far not with each other.
The assignments are solid in a fantastical way, like all the best tv and film buddy/spy shows. And I don't think it's coincidental that the main (dead?) guy is called Charlie (Charlie's Angels), the lead in book 1 is called Steele (Remington?) and in book 2 it's Bond (nuff said). The set up could well be out of Magnum PI. Honestly it's a glorious mishmash of so many of my favourite things.
There's action, humour, and romance.
The prologue is always from a non-lead character's POV and always the same person. Now I have two opinions on this person and I'm hoping I'll be proved right (probably in the last book). One that it's Leo's love interest, and two that it's... nah, I'll keep that to myself. It's not a massive stretch to think that way and I'm sure more than one or two of you will work it out for yourself.
The prologue is always from a non-lead character's POV and always the same person. Now I have two opinions on this person and I'm hoping I'll be proved right (probably in the last book). One that it's Leo's love interest, and two that it's... nah, I'll keep that to myself. It's not a massive stretch to think that way and I'm sure more than one or two of you will work it out for yourself.
This is a dual narrator audio, one narrator reading each POV character. Of course this means that the voices for the secondary characters (of which there are many) don't have any sort of consistency. Even the voices for the main characters differ between the two narrators. Personally I think that one narrator would have worked better.
About the Author
A dreamer and an idealist, Amy writes about people finding connection in a world that can seem lonely and magic in a world that can seem all too mundane. She invites readers into her characters’ lives and worlds when they are their most vulnerable, their most human, living with the same hopes and fears we all have. An avid traveler who has lived in big cities and small towns in four different continents, Amy has found that time and distance are no barriers to love. She invites her readers to reach out and share how her characters have touched their lives or how the found families they have gathered around them have shaped their worlds.
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