Audio Review: Love’s Magic by Janice Jarrell, performed by Walker Williams

Performance: 5

Story: 5

5.0Overall score

Fantastic audio performance!

Love’s Magic By Janice Jarrell

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Released: June 17, 2019

Publisher: Self-Published

Series: Revolutionary Heart, Book 1

Length: 9 hours and 11 minutes

Narrator: Walker Williams

Synopsis

Nate is a professor at the university, content with his life, his job, and his partner David. But when he jumps in to defend a student under attack and is injured himself, Nate becomes a leader in the campus movement to end sexual assault. When David doesn’t understand his militant reaction, Nate feels abandoned and betrayed, and begins to question their relationship.

David’s love for Nate is deep and true, but he can’t support Nate’s confrontational stance, fearing that the consequences will destroy his career. Forced to choose between his love for Nate and his own sense of what’s right, David feels trapped in a hopeless impasse.

Colin, an Irish Sergeant in the campus police force, is a legend on campus. A fierce protector of assault victims, he is merciless in pursuit of their assailants. When he meets Joshua, a Title IX consultant, sparks fly, and their relationship quickly becomes passionate.

Joshua wants more from Colin, much more, but Colin clings to his independence, fighting against his feelings for the soft-spoken psychologist. When Colin’s past comes back to haunt him, an explosive quarrel sends Joshua home without a word. Will Colin care enough to seek him out?

It would take a miracle to resolve these issues and bring these men together.

Love’s Magic is a gay romance featuring two couples, who will both find their HEA.

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Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

Fantastic audio performance!

Love’s Magic is my first book by Janice Jarrell and my first audiobook by Walker Williams and I loved it. The story is great but this is a case of an outstanding audio performance greatly enhancing the story for me. I had a few minor issues with the story but Walker Williams’ performance pretty much made me forget all about them.

I listened to this book a few weeks ago and deliberately waited to review it because I wanted to let to story settle with me a bit. It’s a complicated book that details the love story of two different couples who eventually become connected and friends.

I know from reading Janice Jarrell’s bio that she’s been writing fan fiction for a long time but Love’s Magic is her first full-length novel. I was skeptical that it would be a good book because it involved two separate couples. I’ve never read a story like this before which was part of why I wanted to review it. It seemed like a pretty ambitious undertaking for a first novel but she really nailed it! Please, please read the detailed blurb as it explains the story so much better than I ever could.

Love’s Magic got all of my emotions involved, I laughed and I cried, both sad and happy tears, and this is the surest sign for me of how much I loved a book. Both of the love stories were so compelling I’d be hard pressed to say which couple’s story I liked best.

I really want to read the other books in this series but I’m kind of holding off (even though I own all of them already) to see if they come out in audio. I think the author is working on this now. If the next one doesn’t come out soon, however, I’ll start reading. ?

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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 owncharacters. I will always be grateful the slash fanfiction community for nurturing the budding author until she was ready to blossom into a fully realized novelist, and I am thrilled that it is now available on Audible! 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.

My second contemporary gay romance novel, Love’s Trials followed Colin and Joshua on their journey as men and as a couple. The readers who fell in love with them in Love’s Magic were thrilled to see their romance continue to grow and blossom, but were forced to watch our beloved boys go through some pretty traumatic trials in this book, trials which nearly shattered their relationship. But their love proved stronger than any troubles in the end and they now move forward into the happiness they know they deserve.

In Love’s Glory, my newest release, Colin and Joshua bask in the happiness that eluded them in Love’s Trials. If you’re looking for a book filled with anger, fear, and anxiety… look elsewhere. Love’s Glory is about just that… the glory of love and the continued growth of these two extraordinary men and the amazing friends who are a large part of their lives.

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, and enjoying my life here in the heart of the Pacific Northwest.

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