Audio Review Tour and Giveaway: The Best Laid Plans by Lauren Gallagher

31 August of 2018 by ButtonsMom2003

Overall: 5

Performance: 5

Story: 5

5.0Overall score

A great book by Lauren Gallagher and fantastic performance by Michael Ferraiuolo with Lia Langola.

The Best Laid Plans By Lauren Gallagher, Narrated By Michael Ferraiuolo and Lia Langola

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MMF, Menage

Released: June 7, 2018 (audio), March 15, 2017 (ebook)

Publisher: Self-Published

Synopsis

It’s a foolproof strategy…until the emotional balance shifts.

After yet another adoption falls through, Gabe is ready to give up, and Shahid isn’t far behind him. Apparently, being a gay couple – half of which is Muslim – is just one strike too many for the powers that be. When their friend Kendra offers to carry their baby for them, both men balk at first but gradually warm to the idea. Especially Gabe, whose bisexuality is open to the chemistry among the three of them.

The plan seems simple. Kendra and Gabe, foregoing the cold, impersonal IVF clinic, paperwork and red tape, will conceive the old-fashioned way. They’ll all share parenting responsibilities, and live happily baby after.

But as the heat flares between Gabe and Kendra, Shahid’s long-suppressed insecurities bubble to the surface. Then some unexpected news catches the trio off guard and derails their plans – and now one heart could be left out in the cold.

Warning: Authors subsist on the tears of listeners. Please recycle your hankies by wringing out and reusing. We’d hate to be the cause of a worldwide shortage of tissues.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

A great book by Lauren Gallagher and fantastic performance by Michael Ferraiuolo with Lia Langola.

I am in love with Michael Ferraiuolo’s audio book performances. It doesn’t hurt that the books he’s been performing are also written by fantastic authors, but his voice…! Someone told an author that he would be wonderful reading her grocery list so she asked him to do it and it was dreamy. ?

The Best Laid Plans is the first audio book I’ve listened to that has both a female and male narrator, and it’s the first book I’ve listened to by Lia Langola. The story is told with each of the three characters doing rotating chapters told from their point of view. Since it’s an MMF menage story Lia does one chapter for every two that Michael does. I have a personal preference for listening to a male voice but it made complete sense for the Kendra chapters to be read by a female and she did them quite well.

Please read the synopsis/blurb; it’s concise and accurate. I’ve read a lot of menage stories – several of them MMF titles – but I think this might be the first one where one of the men is not at all attracted to women. It was interesting to read how Shahid changed his perspective after he and Gabe accept Kendra’s offer to help them have a child. He still identifies as gay but he definitely enjoys doing things with Kendra and Gabe that he never imagined doing with a woman.

This was such a good story! I could feel the emotions the characters were going through thanks to the talented voice performers and the excellent writing. I don’t consider that anything that happened in the story is cheating but if you’re at all sensitive to stories that might push those boundaries you might not like this one. Everything that happens is consensual but it still causes relationship difficulties at some point. It all works out OK and I loved the epilogue that takes place a year after the main story ends. Like the rest of this book we get to hear from all three characters in the epilogue.

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O Factor: Scorcher

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About Author

Lauren Gallagher

Lauren Gallagher is an abnormal romance writer who has recently been exiled from the glittering utopia of Omaha, Nebraska, to an undisclosed location in South America. Along with her husband, a harem of concubines, and a phosphorescent porcupine, she remains, as always, in hiding from the Polynesian Mafia. For the moment, she seems to have eluded her nemesis, M/M romance author L.A. Witt, but figures L.A. will eventually become bored with the wilds of Spain and come looking for her. And when that time comes, Lauren will be ready. Assuming L.A. doesn’t have her hands full keeping track of Lori A. Witt and Ann Gallagher, which she probably will.

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