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The Midnight Heat Collection #2

ALC provided by Dreamscape and NetGalley

Author: Talia Hibbert

Narrators: Rooke Kingston and Keval Shah

Audiobook Review

Rahul and Jaz meet when she takes “his ” seat at the library. From there, over the years their relationship grows to a deep friendship that had “occasional benefits”. Rahul is head over heels in love with her but he understands that she is not ready for anything other than friendship and he “friendzones” himself. He’d rather have her as a friend than not have her in his life at all. 

When a pipe bursts at Jaz’s apartment and she has nowhere to go, she asks Rahul for help. He can’t say no to her and he knows it will be torture, but yeah…. Forced proximity it is. 

Told in dual point of view with time shifts going back and forth in time, we find out how they became friends and how they got to where they are now, 

This is one of the earlier Talia books and people who have come to know her through her Brown Sisters books may find it a little different in style and tone. It’s spicy, it’s romantic and it’s well written, though. 

I enjoyed the story but I must confess that the audiobook was not a home run for me because, though the narrators are good, I felt they were miscast. Rooke Kingston,(please make sure you add their names to the cover of this re-release before release date – “Read by John Doe” is not respectful to their work. I tweaked the graphics here because I refused to post that.) sounds much “older” than I would expect Jaz to sound and Keval Shah has a beautiful voice but he sounded “too sweet” when narrating as Jaz and Jaz is anything but sweet. 

Great story of friends becoming lovers and Talia Hibbert can entertain you no matter what.

Thank you, Dreamscape and NetGalley for the ALC.