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Title: Bender

Author: M. Stratton

Narrator: Derrick McClain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-06-15

Publisher: M. Stratton

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 24 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Since high school everyone thought Jake Bender would end up behind bars; after all, he comes from a long line of bad boys. He spent years away from the place he called home. When he finally comes back, everyone thinks he's just a punk kid all grown up who's now running a dive bar called The Night Club. What they don't know is he heads up a special task force that cleans up neighborhoods and makes them safe again.

Stormy Ryan has always felt more comfortable with her books than with people. She loves to spend her days within the pages of her books. When her second-hand bookstore is robbed for the third time in as many months, her employees quit, leaving her to run the shop on her own. With the pressure of having to deal with her shop and people, not to mention the declining neighborhood, she is at the end of her rope. When closing up her shop late one night, she is held up, and the neighborhood bad boy saves her, putting both of them at the forefront of a psychotic's obsession.

Being bad has never looked so good.

Members Reviews:

Well worth reading despite triggers

For a while, I was uncomfortable with some triggers. However, the story is well written and we can get past it. Not going into any spoilers here. The plot moves along very well, and the characters are complex and easily believable.

DMcC is the perfect audio performer for this job. I can pretty much guarantee you that I, personally, would not have gone thru this book beginning to end with no skipping except for his voice interpretations. And that would have been a waste.

Thanks to AudioBook Blast for making it possible for me to be gifted with this book.

I wanted to like this. .....

One of the worst written stories I have ever read/ listened to. The storyline could have been interesting, but the immaturity of the writing kept this from being a good read.

I can't really find too much positive to say so I won't elaborate. I wanted to like this, but alas, it is not to be?

Twisted

Loved how crazy and twisted the story was!

There were times when my mouth just hung open!

Possible Spoilers..

OK, so it really was disgusting when Nutter cut those guys heads off and used their blood for his art. He had already put a large piece of canvas on the floor before they got there. He was a serious whack-job. And when Mick was stirring the stew and an eyeball floated to the top of it and he said how good it smelled. Ewww. One reviewer referred to Nutter as a nut. He was a murderous cannibal so he was a little more than a nut. Good grief, Mick and Nutter were some of the worst villains Ive ever read about. Im sure glad I dont suffer from nightmares.

I did like Bender from the very beginning but, even though I liked her, Stormy was way to Pollyanna-ish for me. And the author gave her that I can take care of myself attitude a little too often; even knowing how crazy Mick and Nutter were and that they were after her. Bender and Murdoch did clean up the neighborhood but it was a bloody and icky story.

They did not make love in this book, they screwed, and it lasted for about a paragraph. So, dont think youll find something hot and steamy here: they got their clothes off in about a sentence, he entered her for about a sentence, and then they were breathing hard after it was over. It was even blander than vanilla sex. I saw no point in the sex really.

There was a little swearing and the F-bomb was used 16 times.

As to the narrator: He was terrible.