Audio Book Review: Ask Me If I Care By Lani Lynn Vale

Ask Me If I Care
(SWAT Generation 2.0 #4)
By Lani Lynn Vale

Narrated By: Lidia Dornet & Brett Galliford
Length: 6 hours and 32 minutes

Ares saw him for the first time at a Kilgore Police Department benefit dinner. She’d gone with her dad as his plus one. Hayes Greer had gone by himself and brooded silently across the same table as her, drinking whiskey and not saying a word.

It only took that one time for her to become interested.

The next time she saw him, he was doing another benefit—but this one requiring a whole lot fewer clothes. And that was when she knew. She wanted him. Badly. But the morose Hayes was too busy thinking about his sins to see what was right in front of his face—Ares.

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Hayes Greer knew the moment that he saw the feisty Ares Downy again that he should’ve stayed away. Maybe if he hadn’t done the stupid calendar, he wouldn’t be questioning every single woman’s intentions.

Maybe if he’d listened to that niggling feeling telling him to stay away, he would’ve been able to do his job a little better. But seeing her with a knife to her throat, in the middle of a building set to blow, made his usually well-wired brain start to malfunction.

Because nobody was allowed to touch her like that—only him. Nobody was allowed to scare her, either. Not and live to tell the tale.

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My Review:

For what it's worth this book did what I wanted it to do which was pass the time I had between major book releases faster. So because of that, this was an average book. Nothing was really mind-blowing or shocking about it or the story. 

Ares was a great character! She was sassy, sarcastic and a total klutz. She had a strong personality and didn't take anyone's crap. I loved the relationship she had with her parents and brother. It was a refreshing take on a good family dynamic. 

Hayes was okay. He was the stoic and soft-spoken type except when push came to shove, which I usually enjoy reading about. There were opportunities to develop his character more but most of it was pushed into the background. I would have liked to have explored his PTSD more and how he deals with it on a daily basis. The "solution" Ares thought of isn't a solution. It's a remedy to help with the symptoms that he's probably going to deal with for the rest of his life. It isn't something that just goes away with time and I disliked how the author glossed over it all.

Even though I didn't see the ending coming I didn't really like it. It was a rushed mess. It felt like the author thought the book needed more action and decided to slap it carelessly at the end of the novel. This seems to be a trend with the books this author writes. I've been tolerant of it in the past but this one was one of the worst ones (at least out of the books I've read by this author).

The Audio Book:

The woman's narration was fantastic! The guy's narration sounded muffled and grated on my nerves by the end of the book. I'm still on the fence on whether or not I'd recommend this audio book.

My Rating: