3.5⭐️ 4🌶️ 4.75🎧

Relationship dynamic: no true relationship, but there is MM and MF spice

Tropes/Microtropes/Vibes/Reps:

⏳ Prequel

🪦 Set in the 1800s

📖 Origin story

🌶️ Spicy

Producer: Blue Nose Audio

Narrators: Sean Masters, Joe Arden, Maxine Mitchell 

Narration type: duet

Writing perspective: first person

Standard length: 

Listening speed: 2x

Listened via: Blue Nose app

ALC provided by: Blue Nose Audio

📖 I’m really enjoying this series overall, and had to check out Axl’s origin story. I will say that I think the problem is me on this one. I don’t tend to love novella’s, and this is even shorter. I felt like I needed/wanted more. Alastair/Axl felt so different to me in this than the Axl we know now, and I know this was to show how much he’s changed and grown over the years, but I kind of didn’t like him in this. I do love him in the main series and seeing how he is with Ophelia now is so nice. 

🎧 The audio for this was amazing, as expected! This whole series has been phenomenal on audio. Sean, Joe, and Maxine were wonderful and the production quality was spot on.