A Balance of Harmonies: Pressing Concerns

I've attempted to listen to two books on CD this week that I just didn't like well enough for disc 2. Both had too many "What is he doing, she wondered" instead of just "What was he doing?" the extra words distance the reader and I felt like I was being constantly clobber by one of those squeaker hammer every time I got interested. Plus some facts were being deliberately hidden. Rather than something getting in the way (a change of subject, loud noise, or other interruption) so thing weren't said or thought, the author pretty much stated that she wasn't going to tell. But theses are things I can overcome if the characters are interesting enough.

But in the first book the lady reading it gave the female lead an annoying whiny voice and then it turned out to be about horse racing. I am no fan of horses (which is funny as I spent my life trying to be as feminine as I could and girls are supposed to like horses) and I'm even less a fan of the race track. So that one got deleted from my phone. In the second book the male lead pretty much explains how he wants to rape the female lead, but as he's supposed to be broken and he doesn't actually do anything, I could almost forgive him/the story, but then the couple have sex and when he wakes up she lies to him about it (he had a fever at the time), which made me lose what little sympathy I had for her. I deleted that too.





Title: Pressing Concerns
Series: A Balance of Harmonies (Three)
Status: Chapter one hundred forty of maybe 145
Genre: m/m romance, drama, city life, businessmen
Rating: R
Content: a call, information, mail, an offer, beautifying, kisses, saying hello, making dinner, facts, home, dessert, plans, truth, dinner, the past, invitations, love
Length: about 3,400 words
Summary: Emil is polite, mostly. Peregrine is confident. And Kurt states the facts.

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( Is she in one of her moods? )