Audiobook Review: Love’s Cost by Janice Jarrell, Performed by Walker Williams

Love’s Cost By Janice Jarrell, Performed By Walker Williams

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Released: Audio: March 13, 2023; eBook: March 17, 2021

Publisher: Self-Published

Series: Revolutionary Heart

Length: 5hrs, 39mins / 185 pages

Synopsis

When love of his life, Adam Wagner, died in his arms, Jeff Kerry’s life shuddered to a halt. Stuck in that one dreadful moment in time and broken by the dark secret which haunted his every dream, he found it impossible to move on.

Cocky, brazen Trent Peterson exploded into his life, in a whirlwind of vibrant magnetism. Refusing to accept ‘no’ for an answer, Trent fought his way past Jeff’s instinctive retreat, and eased Adam’s memory to one side, claiming a place of his own in Jeff’s life and heart.

At long last Jeff took a few, tentative steps, opening his heart once again to the possibility of love. Led by Trent’s strong, supportive hand, he slowly left the darkness behind and stumbled toward the light.

But an unexpected visitor at Trent’s door brings a shocking revelation and a demand which reawakens Jeff’s most deep-seated fear. Can he go through this again? Will he have to?

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

Broke my heart and put it back together again.

I somehow missed reading Love’s Cost with my eyes when it was first published. I even bought a copy but never got around to reading it. I’m kind of “sorry, not sorry” because when I listened to the recently released audiobook, I absolutely loved it. Walker Williams has done an outstanding job performing all of Janice Jarrell’s audiobooks. In fact, he is the original reason I became such a fan of her work. I was blown away when I listened to Love’s Magic the first book in her Revolutionary Heart series.

Love’s Cost is about Jeff Kerry and Trent Peterson. They are friends of Josh and Colin (who were introduced in Love’s Magic and are the MCs of the Fearless Heart series). I think you can read this book as a standalone story but you might enjoy it more if you read the other books first and they are fantastic stories, too.

We know from the blurb that Jeff’s husband dies but there is more to it than that and those events have caused Jeff to keep his heart frozen for seven years. Jeff has had a thing going with Trent for a while now but Trent is developing feelings for Jeff and he’s no longer happy with just a casual affair.

This is a fairly angsty story. Trent is pushing Jeff for more in their relationship and Jeff isn’t ready. Colin and Josh try and get Jeff to see that Adam would have wanted him to find love again and that he needs to come clean to Trent about everything. Just when their relationship is finally getting on track Trent gets news that shocks both of them and it’s something that Jeff just can’t handle.

I really wish I could say more but I don’t do spoilers. Jeff and Trent do get a HEA and it was all the more meaningful after the things they went through to get there. This is a book that I won’t hesitate to recommend. Walker Williams has given another outstanding audio performance of Janice Jarrell’s wonderful book.

Story: ♥♥♥♥♥

Narration: ♥♥♥♥♥

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O Factor: Spicy

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About Author

Janice Jarrell

My name is Janice Jarrell. I am a retired grandmother who lives in Seattle, WA. I have two children and three grandsons. I’ve been writing gay romance since I was twelve years old, only back then it wasn’t called ‘gay romance’. In fact, it had no name at all. It was the fifty’s, and it was worth your life to admit to being gay, let alone confess to being a girl who constantly fantasized about relationships between gay men. Hell, I didn’t even know what a homosexual was. I lived on a farm out in the sticks in a tiny Michigan village and I’d never, to my knowledge, even heard the word. I just knew I loved the thought of boy-on-boy romance. I just knew that there was something hot going on between Tom Corbett and his Space Cadets and all those guys on ‘Combat’.

I wrote slash fanfiction for 30 years, writing over 337 stories, some as short as 100 words (a drabble), some as long as a series which was over 119,012 words. I enjoy writing my stories. I enjoyed the feedback I received from my readers. It was a creative release I’d been searching for my entire life and I blessed the Internet for leading me to this artistic oasis for my spirit.

Love’s Magic was my very first step into writing my own characters. I will always be grateful to the slash fanfiction community for nurturing the budding author until she was ready to blossom into a fully realized novelist. It’s been an amazing thing to watch the gay community’s growth over these past twenty years. My own journey has echoed theirs in many ways, and I’m grateful to all those gay activists who fought to give the gay community the rights and privileges they always deserved. Love’s Trials, Love’s Glory, and Love’s Lawyer were the second and third, and forth books in the series and all four books are available in audio format on Audible.

I’m also grateful to the gay romance community, readers, authors, publishers and promoters, who are making these, my retirement years, the most creative ones of my life. When I’m not writing, I’m traveling, walking, hiking, knitting, crocheting, and weaving.

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