Audiobook Review: Forever Better Together by A.D. Ellis

10 December of 2020 by ButtonsMom2003

Forever Better Together By A.D. Ellis, Performed by Brad King

Genre: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Tropes: Friends-to-lovers, opposites attract

Released: Audio-Nov. 11, 2020; ebook-Oct. 11, 2019

Publisher: Self-Published

Length: 6 hrs, 5 mins / 238 pages

Synopsis

Can best friends find true love? What if your best friend is your adopted brother?

Griffin can’t fathom his life without Quincy, but he also can’t ignore the crazy sexual attraction buzzing between them.

When Quincy offers up a contract to determine if the sexual tension brewing between them is worth jeopardizing their nearly decade-long friendship, Griffin finds himself helpless to say no.

Will they lose everything they’ve found in each other, or will they seize the opportunity to turn their friendship into something even better?

Forever Better Together is a male/male opposites attract, friends-to-lovers story with delicious sexual tension, a sizzling hot striptease, and emotions guaranteed to punch you in the gut.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

Loved the ebook, loved the audio!

It’s been just over a year since I read Forever Better Together and I was so happy to get the opportunity to listen to and review a copy of the recently released audiobook. I’ve listened to one other audiobook performed by Brad King (His Reluctant Cowboy, also by A.D. Ellis). I loved his performance then and I loved it now. He does some really great voices for the main characters when they were young and then later as college age kids. He also does great voices for the supporting characters – and there are quite a few.

Forever Better Together is a a good story that spans a lot of years and it has a several different tropes to it. It’s a little bit taboo (adopted brothers), it’s friends-to-lovers, it’s new adult (college age) and it’s also opposites attract.

I’m not crazy about what I call pseudo-incest stories (no blood relation) that beat the “taboo” element to death. Forever Better Together does mention the brother aspect of the story but it’s not the main focus and it doesn’t beat it to death. Overall, I would call this a fairly low-angst story. As I read, I kept waiting for something to happen that would break Quincy and Griffin up and was really relieved that it didn’t happen.

One of the things I loved about the story was how supportive Quincy’s family was. They took Griffin in as a foster child and ended up adopting him. When Quincy and Griffin came out (not at the same time) Momma and Pops continued to love them both and later even encouraged their relationship.

Forever Better Together was enjoyable, kept my attention and caused a few tears to flow – a sure sign that it was a great story for me.