Review: Private Charter

Private Charter by N.R. Walker and Anthony Ferguson
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Stuart Jenner’s job is high stress, high stakes, and everything he’s strived for. So why, when the apex of his career is within reach, does he stumble? At his doctor’s insistence, he books a privately chartered yacht to sail around the Whitsundays for two weeks.

Foster Knight left the rat race behind six years ago, bought a yacht, and now calls the Great Barrier Reef his home. Sailing tourists around tropical waters is all in a day’s work, and he’s never been happier. Foster can see how stressed and exhausted Stuart is, and he promises him extensive rest and relaxation.

 
How long does an average reader take, to start skimming? For me, it was 2 hours of swimming, sunbathing, and flirting. The constant mention of white speedos got annoying. At 30% I noticed some sex was added but did not bother listening to that.
The narrator was no performer. He read without errors but hadn't the talent to make a boring text seem thrilling.


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Review: Shawn's Law

Shawn's Law by Renae Kaye and Casey Hunter
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Shawn is single, twenty-nine, the full-time carer of his Alzheimer’s-stricken mother, and a frequent victim of Murphy’s Law—although his family calls it Shawn’s Law. Other than caring for mum, his day consists of painting nude men and spying on the guy who walks his dogs along the street every day at four o’clock. Harley doesn’t believe in Shawn’s Law—but he soon changes his mind. The two men make it through a memorable first date and Shawn’s sexual insecurities to begin a relationship stumbling toward love. Throw in a serial killer ex-boyfriend, several deadly Australian animals, two dogs called Bennie, a mother who forgets to wear clothes, an unforgiving Town Council, and a strawberry-flavored condom dolly, and Shawn’s Law is one for the books.

 
I read 25% of this audiobook and have to stop now.
I get that Sawn is accident prone but I want something more than that. The joke is getting old and I want a gay love story. Not a listing of setbacks.
Second to that, the story is told in the past tense, interrupted in the present tense when the character interrupts his story to talk to the reader. Not my favorite thing.

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