Audiobook Review: A Kind of Home by Lane Hayes Narrated by Seth Clayton #Review #Giveaway

Author: Lane Hayes
Narrator: Seth Clayton
Title: A Kind of Home
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Cover Artist: Aaron Anderson
Publication date: December 4, 2017
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Reviewed by Racheal


Synopsis

A Kind Of Story

Isaac Dalton is the guitarist for Spiral, arguably the biggest rock band in the world. The band’s meteoric rise to superstardom has its perks, but fame and fortune aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. Nonstop touring and performing exhaust him, and when an overzealous fan makes it imperative that Isaac travel with a clingy bodyguard, he is ready for a break from the madness. More so when his newly single first crush shows up on his doorstep. The man is strictly off-limits. He’s a memory from a place Isaac would rather leave behind. And he’s straight.

Fun-loving former athlete slash construction worker Adam McBride desperately needs a new beginning. And New York City is the perfect place to start over and think about how to rebuild his life. A short stint as roommates with his brother’s best friend from high school seems like a mutually beneficial arrangement. However, when friendship gives way to fierce attraction, both men find themselves in unchartered and possibly dangerous territory. Isaac has to decide if he’s willing to take the ultimate risk for a kind of love and a kind of home he never dreamed possible.

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Lane Hayes definitely does not disappoint with this magnificent masterpiece A Kind of Home and it is beautifully narrated by Seth Clayton. 

Isaac Dalton thought he finally found his place in the world. Being a well-known guitar player in a rock band that is taking the nation by storm! Coming from a broken family in a small unknown town to the high life of the Big Apple is more than he could have ever dreamed. However, with fame comes long days, endless nights, long frames of time being away from home not to mention never having privacy and your life being plastered everywhere for the world to see. At home, he comes face to face with his best friends brother Adam McBride. Adam is also going through some life changes and needs a place to crash for the time being.

Just what Isaac needs right now in his life, his straight walking fantasy living in the room down the hall from his. The man who is messing with his heart and mind doesn't seem to have a plan but makes him laugh and start to see life a little differently. One night changes the course of their friendship. Which now only leaves Isaac more confused with his feelings and mounting stress regarding things happening in his career. 

Seth Clayton truly brought both characters of Isaac and Adam alive through his storytelling. He captured both of their personalities by the way he was able to take on each of their characters.

I enjoyed getting lost in the world that was just created for Isaac and Adam. Their story was powerful, in-depth and made me open my eyes and see beyond just their outer beauty.

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Audiobook Review: A Kind of Truth by Lane Hayes Narrated by Seth Clayton #Review #Giveaway

Author: Lane Hayes
Narrator: Seth Clayton
Audiobook: A Kind of Truth
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Publication date: May 3, 2016
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes


Reviewed by Morningstar



Synopsis

Rand O’Malley dreams of superstardom. He hopes to one day sing the blues like a rock god. Moving to New York City and hiring a new manager are steps to make his dreams a reality. But nothing moves as fast as Rand would like, and everyone has opinions, which include he keep certain pieces of himself quiet if he plans on making it in the Big Apple. Like his bisexuality.

Will Sanders is a gifted musician who dazzles Rand with his ability to coax gorgeous notes from an electric guitar one moment and play the piano like a professional the next. He’s a geek, but Rand isn’t concerned about Will’s pressed exterior clashing with his tattoos. His focus is music. Yet there’s something about Will that makes Rand think there’s much more to the quiet college student than he lets on. As Rand’s dreams begin to materialize, he’s forced to reconsider his priorities and find his own kind of truth. One that might include Will.

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I have loved so many of Lane Hayes books so getting to listen to my first audiobook I jumped on the chance of it being a book I know that I loved of hers. I mean who doesn’t love Will and Rand?! Now as I said this was my first audiobook since typically I like “hearing” them from my own internal voice than someone else’s but Seth Clayton really changed that for me in this book!

Seth has the ability to give every character a unique voice, one that fits the character perfectly! We all go through what we think a character's looks like or sounds ike and sometimes it's hard to move past our own personal views. But this narrator was able to give me a voice to each character that had fit that character. My favorite was George because, oh wow, was that voice spot on!

What giving the listener such a varied amount of voices does is creates a better more complete story because now we can take our visuals and the sounds of their voices and really get a full picture of each scene and even more so the emotion that is being played in that scene. When Will chuckled at Rand over the furniture store scene or Rand’s emotion bleeding through his voice when Will was leaving or just the overall voice he gave Rand or Benny added a layer to connecting with the characters that I didn't have before. All of it just gave me a better love of these characters and this story.

I will definitely be looking for more of his narrations in the future and really hope Lane Hayes continues to use for this series and maybe others!

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