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Title: Frayed

Subtitle: Connections Series, Book 4

Author: Kim Karr

Narrator: Veronica Meunch, Christian Fox

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-02-14

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 84 votes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

After losing his fiancée, Ben Covington is unsure he'll ever love again. But he's so deeply drawn to Bell Wilde that he's thrown for a loop. Maybe it's purely sexual chemistry that's igniting their spark...or maybe it's his second chance at love.

Bell Wilde has just gotten her life back on track and may not be up to the challenge of Ben Covington coming back into it. However, once the spark is reignited...there's no stopping it. But even if they both manage to pull together their frayed hearts, a secret from Bell's past just might shatter them both.

Contains mature themes.

Critic Reviews:

"Ben is absolutely sinful and Kim Karr's writing sizzled from the first to the very last page." ---Katy Evans, New York Times bestselling author

Members Reviews:

excellent story...loved the journey

You need to read the connected series to understand Ben's journey...from Dahlias story to his happily ever after. I feel that Ben was the star of this series. loved the book alot.

Entertaining, but a little long!

If you have read the series than this fits right in. I got a little bored around chapter 32 and felt some of it could have been edited out. Overall a good conclusion to the series and glad I read it. I didn't mind the voices at all.

Well done Kim Karr

Just wishing for another book of this series , just wanted them too look for their adopt child the narrators unbelievable , awesome voices

juvenile; poorly addressed adult themes; sex

My first impression is about feeling duped albeit unintentionally. I didnt enjoy the female narrator and likely wouldnt have purchased the story if her part had been in the book sample I listened to. So having the story swing between the two narrators didnt work for me, since I didnt experience them in the same way. Similarly, I didnt like the split focus on both Ben and Bell, simultaneously having both characters tell their side of the same story. The author did a poor job of making it clear when the characters were in the past or in the present. I dont always dislike this type of storytelling, but here, it didnt work for me. And I think it was due to the female narrator. I just didnt like her for this story. And it might have been largely due to me thinking I was getting one story, focused on one character, and getting something else.

The story is told from the first time they met, which was during college as undergraduates. I generally avoid stories about college-age characters, and Belle acted as an immature college-age female the entire story. Even when it focused on the present, it was confusing. It seemed like Belles life was that of someone fresh out of college & quite young. While Bens life, the way he behaved and spoke, made him seem older, the age he was supposed to be, somewhere in his later 20s. Another reason I thought this story was one of older people was because the book description referred to Ben dealing with his fiances leaving. I was very disappointed to hear a story where that was not quite the case, Belle and Ben, especially Belle did not act older, not even as mature people in their late 20s. Matt was a much more interesting, complex and mature character than Belle. She just messed this story up for me in every way.

Clearly, I didnt like Belle. I may have liked the book better if the book only focused on Ben, as I initially thought it would.