Review: The Blackstone Affair # 2: All In

All In by Raine Miller

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

All In by Raine Miller is the continuation of Naked and the story of Brynne Bennett and Ethan Blackstone. We begin to learn about Ethan's past, the torture, the scars, and we start to see that the danger to Brynne is much more evident than she expected and as bad as Ethan feared. We begin where Naked left off but from Ethan's perspective. We see them struggle with sharing their lives with each other, working out the kinks in having another person involved in almost everything you do. Brynne has to learn to take Ethan's warnings seriously, Ethan has to tone down the caveman inside. The story continues on to the trip to Ethan's sisters house, and on my re-read of this book I am so happy that book three, Eyes Wide Open, is already available.

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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
*Smiles* I have recommended this book to every friend I have that reads if they haven't already read it.

Who was your favorite character and why?
Ethan Blackstone is my favorite character. He is such a strong alpha caveman with such depth of emotion and feeling it's almost hard to unite the two. Unless of course you are Brynne Bennett.

What about Shane East and Grace Grant ’s performance did you like?
I have heard Grace Grant before when listening to Beautiful Bastard and Beautiful Stranger by Christina Lauren and I really liked her performance then. She becomes the character without overdoing it and allows the story to play out in your mind with such ease it's a pleasure to listen to her.

Shane East - Well, I'm English. I grew up hearing English accents, they were NO BIG DEAL! The past 20 years spent in the United States, however, has caused me to find immense pleasure in listening to a crisp accent like Shane's. His voice conveyed the attitude and magnetism that I envisioned Ethan Blackstone as having, perfectly! An absolute pleasure to listen to. (A double entendre MAY have been intentional in that one.)

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The moment that moved me emotionally was when Ethan woke up from his nightmare with Brynne their to help him pull himself back together.

The funniest moment was his inner monologue on the pitfalls of a steady relationship when the female is experiencing her menstrual cycle or "dead week" as he called it.



LOL
Ethan on Brynne's hormones during her dead week...

Can you say wicked hormones changing my girl into Medusa and scaring the hell out of me?

“All right, chief,” I said in utter bewilderment, waiting till she hung up before I sighed good and loud. I shook my head too. And even blew out a whistle. Then I drove over to get my snake-haired, sharp-tongued, unpredictable, and very perplexing girlfriend, like the besotted sap that I very much was.Women . . . frightening creatures.

My Medusa had just turned into Aphrodite worshipping at the altar of Eros. My luck apparently knew no bounds.

Ethan on Fifty Shades of Grey...

Clarkson went in to help Brynne and Marie in the kitchen while Gabrielle and Elaina seemed to hit it off by talking books—something trending about a very young billionaire and his obsession with an even younger woman . . . and sex. Lots of erotic sex scenes in the book, like apparently on every page.

Ethan on the Dark Arts...

“Be nice. Don’t even think of having another tantrum in front of him again,” she muttered under her breath at me.
“Fine,” I said, raising my glass and mentally wishing for direct knowledge of the dark arts so I could curse him into a toad. Wait, he already was a toad; it would have to be something different . . . a cockroach maybe?

Ethan on love and luck...

All in is forever, baby...
When I reached for my girl and showed her how much I did indeed need her, and told her with words too, I knew then that the best gamble of my life had been not the cards I’d played but that one night on a London street, when a beautiful American girl tried to walk out in the dark, and I played the most important hand I’d ever been dealt and went . . . all in.

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