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Top Secret
- Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton, Christian Fox
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: LGBTQ2S+, Romance
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Publisher's Summary
Best-selling authors Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy return with their first Male/Male romance in 3 years.
LobsterShorts, 21. Jock. Secretly a science geek. Hot AF.
LobsterShorts: So. Here goes. For her birthday, my girlfriend wants…a threesome.
SinnerThree: Then you’ve come to the right hookup app.
LobsterShorts: Have you done this sort of thing before? With another guy?
SinnerThree: All the time. I’m an equal opportunity player. You?
LobsterShorts: [crickets!]
SinnerThree, 21. Finance major. Secretly a male dancer. Hot AF.
SinnerThree: Well, I’m down if you are. My life is kind of a mess right now. School, work, family stress. Oh, and I live next door to the most annoying dude in the world. I need the distraction. Are you sure you want this?
LobsterShorts: I might want it a little more than I’m willing to admit.
SinnerThree: Hey, nothing wrong with pushing your boundaries....
LobsterShorts: Tell that to my control-freak father. Anyway. What if this threesome is awkward?
SinnerThree: Then it’s awkward. It’s not like we’ll ever have to see each other again. Right? Just promise you won’t fall in love with me.
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Q&A about Top Secret:
Q: Have we met these characters before in another book?
A: No! These guys are brand new, and we can’t wait for you to meet them.
Q: Is this story MM? Or is it a MMF / MFM / menage?
A: This book is MM.
Q: Is this a love triangle story?
A: Not really. You’ll see.
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- ROBERT
- 2020-10-20
I want to see the movie!
I had flashbacks of my own university days spent pining for boys I could never have. And, the one I did. I loved this story and the actors were incredibly real. Well done.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2022-04-08
great book and narration!
great story, easy listen and wonderful narration. just the right amount of steamy action ;)
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- Liana
- 2021-09-09
Great all around
Individually, Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy are two of my favorite M/M authors. Together they blow my mind. I only wish that they collaborated more, or even published more individual m/m, because I just want to throw all my money at each of them.
Top Secret is currently on my top five of favorite m/m romance novels right now. It has so many of my favorite tropes, including secret romance, college romance, enemies to lovers, rich boy/poor boy, exploring sexuality, coming out, first time, falling in love, HEA. I love that Keaton is nowhere near the dumb jock stereotype. His scientific mind allows him the freedom and confidence to accept his growing attraction and to reach out without fear to this man who he wants so badly. And Luke is so nuanced. From his family, to his pride, to his sexuality, and the way he is afraid of wanting too much which makes him withdraw. I admit that I was scared that while Keaton was so carefully falling in love with him, Luke made me think that he may never get there. And yet, I lived for their quiet moments together when it's so apparent that they were already in love with each other but had so many things to work through.
As for the narrators, Teddy Hamilton is an instant buy for me, especially when he reads m/m romance. I haven't always loved his voice, but it grew on me to such an extent that now he's one of my favorites. I feel like his voice complements his co-narrator's and it just always works. I recommend anything that Teddy Hamilton and Jacob Morgan read together, which coincidentally includes HIM + US + EPIC series by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy! Christian Fox on the other hand was new to me, because I can't find many m/m novels read by him. I'll need to listen to his other works from now on. He's now on my must-buy list as well. His voice as Keaton was perfect. The calm and the collected way that Keaton sounds, the dry humor, the expressions, the descriptions, were all read perfectly.
Between the authors, the story, and the narrators, I never wanted this audiobook to end. Highly, absolutely, if you love college first-time m/m romance, recommended!
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- Avery
- 2020-08-18
Excellent as usual!
These authors are excellent as usual in this book! I absolutely couldn't stop listening. Seriously hope they make more together. Love it all the way!
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- ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧
- 2019-05-31
✫✫ 5 Stars ✫✫
This Dynamic Author Duo did it again! These two write the best MM Romance IMHO. I love it all... every book, every character and every HEA. This is a New Adult Contemporary MM Romance.
Keaton is a typical college Jock from a wealthy family who's been in a relationship with the same girl his whole life. Luke is the opposite of Keaton, he has struggled his whole life with a family who just takes advantage of him so he works hard for everything he has. He is just struggling to make it to graduation. Keaton discovers his attraction to men because of Luke, Luke always knew he was bi-sexual. These two are awesome, they have a enemies to lovers thing going on. In the beginning their banter is awesome and in the end their love story is sweet and even though it takes them some time to figure it out, they do and it's perfect! This book left me swooning!!! I didn't want it to end and came back to check if it was going to be a series. I NEED MORE!!!!!
Christian Fox and Teddy Hamilton were perfect!!! The casting was so on point, they became their characters. Teddy is my favorite already but after this one... why can't these two narrator EVERY MM Romance book!!!
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- Ya Book Girl
- 2019-06-02
WTF
I really enjoyed this book UNTIL I WAS FORCED TO GET THE EPILOGUE ON SABRINABOWEN.com and it was clipped and I was being forced to create something at Sharp Springs so I could view in browser🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬. BOTTOM LINE I COULD NOT READ OR HEAR A Mother🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 EPILOGUE!!!
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- ILoveToRead
- 2019-06-03
Christian Fox & Teddy Hamilton reading a Sarina Bowen Elle Kennedy book is a DREAM!
Absolutely LOVED this audiobook! If you loved Him and Us you will fall in love with this one too. The plot felt very original to me and the writing kept me hanging on every word. I couldn’t wait for these two to finally meet and hook up. So hot and sexy and yet a great live story. One you won’t forget.
Of course 🦊 & 🐻 are a dream team in this audiobook.
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- Andra Nickerson
- 2019-06-01
Love Love Love This Book!
When Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy write together MAGIC HAPPENS! It was hard for me to imagine them matching Him, Us, Good Boy, and Stay! But I was floored when I finished. Christian Fox and Teddy Hamilton are superb! Don't miss this book! It is a treat in every way!
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- Lord_Theoden
- 2019-07-11
good narrators but boring
narrators were great but the story was so boring to me I could barely finish it. I also hate when there has to be some kind of conflict in the end to where the characters have to "break up" but you know they're going to end up together anyway, I've seen this done too many times ( when I was a child), it's like those Disney movies or whack teen dramas that just don't have a real conflict so they make up some bs to pad the runtime.i felt nothing for any of these people.
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- Annika
- 2019-06-24
Entertaining
My namesake has a birthday coming up. And for a birthday present she asks her long-term boyfriend Keaton for a threesome to spice up their sex life. So said boyfriend, never backing out from a challenge downloads an app, sets up a profile (LobsterShorts) and start searching for the second guy Annika wished for. Soon SinnerThree has contacted him and it’s not long before the two are messaging one another daily. It starts with SinnerThree wanting to know how far and what Keaton is comfortable with. Exchanging fantasies and desires and wants turns into sharing their daily struggles, family issues and banter in general.
I loved this part, the beginning. I loved the banter and Keaton’s obscure knowledge in mating rituals for sea slugs or masturbating kangaroos that he so happily shared. I felt the draw between the two. Felt Keaton’s curiousness, awareness, and awakening, not to mention the UST was off the charts. When T-day (threesome day) arrived and their identities were revealed that chemistry kind of fizzled out a bit and a new can of worms were opened up. Because these two men has not only met before, they aren’t exactly what you’d call friends.
My feelings towards Luke (SinnerThree) are a bit conflicted. On the one hand I really felt for him and the shitty hand he’d been dealt in life. His struggles to make ends meet, how his family keeps using him and how lonely he really is. On the other hand all that shittiness doesn’t give him an out on how he treated Keaton, constantly pushing him away. I get that he was proud, but it kind of went beyond that and into the ridiculous. At the same time, he was also pursuing him physically – talk about mixed signals.
I also have to say a couple of things about the girlfriend. Yes Keaton and Annika are together for the first part of this book (no we don’t really get any details beyond a close friendship – so don’t worry, there are no girl parts here). Her presence while there doesn’t take over in any way, she’s more like a secondary character adding a bit of depth to the story. Just like the frat brothers and their antics.
Top Secret is narrated by both Teddy Hamilton and Christopher Fox and man that was the best part of this book. They were beyond fabulous and I loved every second of it. Fox and Hamilton have very distinct voices, and it’s easy to tell them apart. However, they worked so smoothly together that the listener didn’t notice the switches. And by that I mean that obviously we hear the new voice, know that we’ve switched POV, but that’s all. The volume, intensity, tone and feel of the book is there in the changes.
They both also captured all of the characters and their feelings just right. I loved that you could feel Keaton’s discovery of himself. That budding curiosity, the nervousness and want was there in every word. The same went for Luke and his feelings towards his family. The hope he didn’t want to feel, the rejection and disappointment of always being used. It was all crystal clear and it felt like you were right there beside them and go through it all when they do. I do hope to listen to many more productions by Hamilton and Fox in the future, because listening to this book was a treat.
A copy of this book was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review for Love Bytes.
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- Marianne H.
- 2019-06-20
Mixed emotions on this one...
First I'd like to say that I love listening to Teddy Hamilton and Christian Fox; I've listened to their narration before and they've never disappointed me. I've also read Sariana Bowen and Elle Kennedy before (individually and as a duo) so when they decided to do another M/M novel, I was literally all over it.
However, the story fell flat. I'll admit that the blurb and hype and previous experience with the authors had me using my one credit left to purchase the audio book, and I now I kinda feel duped. Don't get me wrong, the plots in the story was great BUT I was getting really annoyed with Luke's character very early on but stuck it out til the very end. I've read M/M stories where one of the MCs have gone through so much worst but at least held on to hope where as Luke just kept on pushing Keaton away. It got to the point that I were they even going to give it a shot? Will Keaton realize he deserves better than Luke's mistreatment? Are they even friends? I don't want to give too much, you'll have to risk the one credit.
All I'll say is that, love the narrators, love the authors, but overall, the character development was not great. Guess it was an okay read.
Happy listening all!
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- Monica M.
- 2019-06-05
This book + this narration duo = EVERYTHING!!!
I don't think my review will even come close to expressing my love for this book, these authors and this narration duo. First and foremost, hats off to Sarina and Elle for bringing another well written, smart, funny, emotional, sexy AF book. Us and Him are two of my hands down favorite listens and you can add Top Secret to that list. Teddy and Christian are absolutely fantastic. They brought Luke and Keaton to life and I loved it every minute of it. I seriously can't wait to re-listen.
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- Kelly
- 2019-06-16
I want another!!
I loved this book! I’m in love with the characters and the narrators are fantastic! These are two of my favorite authors and narrators and they lived up to my expectations. I hope there is another book with these two; I need more!
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- OG Mombie
- 2019-06-04
Steamy and Fun!!!!
Sabrina Bowen and Elle Kennedy are auto one-clicks for me, once again they did not disappoint. I loved this audiobook! The way the relationship developed was witty and fun. I found myself smiling so big my co-workers probably thought I had gone nuts. Luke and Keaton's banter was brilliant and oh so steamy!
The narration was superb, Teddy Hamilton and Christian Fox hit it out of the park. These two were like magic together. Teddy Hamilton has always been a favorite and after this, I will be seeking out more by Christian Fox. I truly hope to hear more of this combo in the future.
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