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Better Red

Ever After, New York Series, Book 1

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Better Red

By: Tara Lain
Narrated by: Kirt Graves
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Who's afraid of the big, bad Wolfe?

Red Ridley knows he could have a happy life in Ever After, New York, waiting on tables at Mom and Pop's, making numbers add up for clients, studying business at the junior college - and maybe, just maybe having the man of his dreams, Mark Woods, the young owner of the local garage. One problem. Red's gorgeous. Amazing looking. Totally unique. And no one who sees him - especially his grandmother, who's his biggest promoter - believes he won't end up on the cover of a magazine. Gran's dreams come true when famous New York agency owner, Brock Wolfe, shows up in Ever After and sets his sights on Red.

Red doesn't want to leave Mark, but Gran has given everything to raise him, and the money he could make would give her a happy, easy life. Then, the news gets worse - Gran could lose her house - so Red breaks down and goes to New York where the Wolfe shows just how bad he can be. Faced with a fate worse than death, Red needs a hero or needs to be one. Is there any chance to live happily in Ever After?

Contains mature themes.

©2020 Tara Lain (P)2020 Tantor Romance Happiness Dream New York

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I really enjoyed the book. I loved how the characters and storyline were sort of a take on fairytales. Red mentioned his friend Hans and his sister Gretal as well as a friendly woman the town suspected of being a witch. A mechanic in the town was named Mark Woods. It took me a while to go ' ah, the woodsman.' Although this was supposed to be book 1 in the series, it was released in 2020, it is now 2024 and no other book in the series has been released. It will be a shame if this is going to be the only book because it was very good and I would love to read more about the people in Ever After.

Loved it!

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Honest query... WHY do people in the US pronounce carAmel as carmel... Carmela is a name & it's got NOTHING to with caramel, which is a Portuguese word, possibly derived from Latin... but it's CarAmel... quit butchering the word, it sounds ridiculous 😡🤬

I digress... onto the story....It was definitely an interesting reimagining, with an AWFUL grandmother & honestly I really didn't want the "Woodsman" to save her from the big, bad wolf!

Mrs Delphi was the Granma we needed, but didn't get & I think after all her help, she should've played a part at the end of the story... some show of gratitude from the boys, perhaps 🤷‍♀️

Some of the names were really on the nose like Wulff, Coyoten, Mark WOODS 😂

I really liked that Red had spunk & always stood up for himself. He only ever really got into dire straits trying to help his Granny from her own foolishness!


At first, the Gran seemed sweet & caring, however it soon became clear that she was "interesseira", another Portuguese word that doesn't really have an equivalent in English, but along the lines of grasping, somebody who uses people without compunction, kinda like a gold digger... basically someone who only concerns themselves with what they can get out of someone else... that's NEVER a good person & to top it off, she was also a godawful snob....

& no one will convince me that she didn't hear what Brock was saying & that's why she had a conniption... but as it didn't suit her needs, she pretended she didn't know!

& how incredibly selfish of her to admit that turning the blog into a profitable venture didn't suit her, but she expected her teenage grandson to pimping himself to get HER out of debt.

I didn't like the Grandma as soon as it became clear that although it appeared that it was well-meaning, she was both coercing & manipulating her grandson for her own gain.

& how unconscionably cruel she was to a man who'd been nothing but kind to her & for her to use the fact that her grandson trusted her implicitly to make him be as cruel as she was... vile character!

Sorry, I was not won over by the conclusion... too little, too late & she was far too selfish throughout the whole book for a simple sorry to suffice 🤷‍♀️

Although, I liked the story... I think that all the villains like Grandma, Wulff & Phil kinda got off scot free... none actually got their just deserves, hence why I can't rate it higher, but I did love the new spin on a very old tale 👍👍👍

an interesting reimagining

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Kirt Graves is one of my top 5 narrors. Lovely tense drama with angst. Kirt as always did a brilliant voice over of The MC in the story. Tara Lain is a new author to me gives you a insight into models trying to make to the top of their careers and the sacrifices they have to make.

Enjoyable Story

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Loved it. Completely underrated author, she's great! Loved the themes and everything. Would absolutely recommend!

Fab!

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I don’t have anything more to say than, I’m so happy mark and red were end game. also the ending was so sweet!!!

Interesting story!

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