My heart is in pieces! 😭❤️‍🩹💔 I loved it!

Once again, another incredible work by Hailey Turner, expertly narrated by Greg Boudreaux 👏 👏👏 Out of the first four books this one is my absolute favorite!!! The love and the tension and the action and the torture and the loss... all of it is meticulously melded together with amazing balance that just sings to me as a reader. The characters Jamie, Kyle, Alexei and Sean are so well written and simply break my heart over and over. The way Turner writes how they exercise their unyielding (and sometimes yeidling) endurance gives me strength. I can't wait to see what happens next. Onto book five of the Metahuman Files!!!

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Spectacular story-line with awesome narration!

Spectacular story-line with awesome narration!

I love this series and this book hit harder than i expected. It was heartbreaking at times, often suspenseful and always a compelling story-line.

Jamie and Kyle, and Alexei and Sean are impacted and changed. Their strength and love will carry them through but their is a heavy cost. There are lots of special moments for both of our couples and you will want to listen and enjoy their time together.

i am so looking forward to the book where we can truly get the bad guys!

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Fantastic and heart wrenching

This is an amazing continuation to the series. However, do not ignore the trigger warnings about on page torture. It is brutal and horrible, both physically and mentally.

In this story we get to follow not only Jamie and Kyle, but also Aleksei and Sean. I love the contradictions in their relationships and their sexy times.

Jamie's father is on the campaign trail, and is making an a$$ of himself. Jamie and Kyle have been working their case so long, and Jamie is stuck with his family. However, when Sean's past comes back to pay a cruel visit, Kyle heads back to try to save his brother and Sean.

I'm not even going to describe what Sean and Alexei are put through during their kidnapping. It is enough to say that PTSD and a fear of losing each other's love are some of the many outcomes.

Jamie was on his way to help his team, but he was caught off guard by the enemy. It turned out that his decision had not surprised the precog, and he was supposed to pay the price. Oh, there's also a new suppressor in town, but that's for another story.

Suicide splice bombers have been set in place in Boston, and things get bad. Jamie and his team decide the decent thing to do is more important than getting in trouble by that point. They break the rules to help with the fallout. Then, they must deal with their own roles in helping the victims.

This is a great listen, but it's quite dark at times. I still loved it very much.

I thought the narrator did a great job. The characters are well differentiated and his pacing was smooth.

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In The Blood, Metahumans 4

OMG. THIS BOOK...... THIS WHOLE FREAKING SERIES... OMG..
Why can we only give 5 Stars.... This book deserves so much more...

Going into this one you have to have previously read and/or listened to the first three books in order to follow the story and not be completely lost as to what is happening and who all the characters are. This is not a standalone book in any way.

This was a crazy wild ride I did not want to get off of. I was on the edge of my seat. Biting my nails nervous about what was happening every step of the way and I loved every minute of it. No joke I really felt like I was put through the ringer with this book and forced to experience all the feelings whether I wanted to or not, Hailey really out-did herself with this one..

I love the entire team of Metahumans but Jamie & Kyle and Sean & Alexi are both at the top of my favorite couples list and I loved getting another look into all of their lives. But man, some parts of this book and parts of what happened when things got extreme were really hard to hear. I think this book was made so much more intense when listening to the narrator, Greg Boudreaux. He gives so much emotion and depth to each and every character that it is just enthralling and impressive to hear. All his accents and voices are on point and perfect in every part of this book. He really did an amazing job bringing this book and all the characters to life, I really felt like I was right there in the book with these characters. <- Which is exactly how you should feel. Completely pulled in and captured by the story. This was So Freaking Good, and I really don't think that could be said enough.

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The author tore my heart out & stomped all over it

Okay at one point Ms Turner I was going to tell you how much I totally disliked you, okay I could have called you some really nasty names, because of what you did. But then that ending, how can one stay mad at you after reading that. This was a majorly rough one. What a couple of our heroes went through was absolutely brutal. And the one behind it got what he deserved. Okay I would have liked to have tortured him for a long time before the big finale, but it was satisfying. This One has such major feels. My cat was laying next to me looking at me like, stupid human why is there water running down your face. Yes it was ugly crying. There were times that I couldn’t catch my breath. Jamie’s father, boy he needs some brains beaten into him. I hate when he is around. I loved that we spent quality one on one time with both of our couples, the sexy times were majorly hawt!!!! I cannot wait for then next book in the series. I also can’t wait for the fraternization to be changed so they can be seen out together. They deserve it. If you have read the first three books in the series yet, stop don’t read this one. They need to be read in order. Well done Ms Turner, keep up the amazing job!

OMG the bad things that happened re-tore me up. Greg Boudreaux did an absolutely amazing job narrating this book.

Audio ARC provided by LesCourt Services in exchange for an honest review.

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What a wild and emotional ride!!!

Listened to audio 5* narration 4* story

Another great addition to this series. My favorite, so far. The twists and turns to kept me guessing, and as a lover of high-action scenes I was not disappointed. As usual it's full of fast-paced action, betrayal, assassinations, smoking hot lovin, friendship, and loyalty.

However, I was not prepared for the heart wrenching torture and what they endured during recovery. My heart went out to these two and this families.

But, we get the best thanksgiving...ever! I loved it...so exciting and fun.

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love this book! it's one of the best in the series

I can visualize throughout this whole book, amazing writer and the narrator is the perfect choice.

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Sexiness explodes!

So much to say! This series is one of those action packed and sexy series that will keep you on the edge of your seat waiting for the next moment. So awesome!

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An Emotional Rollercoaster Of A Book!

This is the fourth book in The Metahuman Files Series. An enthralling book with amazing writing. The plot was entertaining and it was steady throughout the book. It also stays true to the previous books plots and characters. I found the story and characters captivating. The characters were well developed and thought out. Jamie, Kyle, Alexei and Sean are the MC’s of this book. This is extremely well written for focusing on 2 couples instead of one. There are also very strong secondary characters. There was humor, Russians, criminals, a precog, politics, terrorists, missions, Metahumans, kidnappings, torture, friends and family, empaths, bombs, death, action, sex, military and so much more in this book.

This book was a rollercoaster of emotions. The author lures you in like a cute little puppy and then attacks you like a 200 lbs. rabid dog that shatters your favorite crystal vase and then tries get someone to glue it back together, so you don’t notice. Another reader writes that the author is a “brilliantly sadistic woman who makes Satan look like a cute, cuddly, fluffy bunny” which I totally agree with. I suggest that you read with tissues, chocolate and your favorite comfort item. A warning there are 3 chapters that contains torture. These are not full chapters of it and these sections can be skipped, and you can still understand and enjoy the book. The first 2 start in the middle of the chapter and stop at the end of the chapter. The third section starts and the beginning of the chapter and stops in the middle. These sections are obvious so don’t worry about where they are so you can choose. But this book is worth reading regardless of which way you choose to go. Yes, it will tear your heart out, but it also puts it back and you just go WOW! Having said all this it is a book that you don’t want to miss reading.

The narration as always by this narrator was great. He does such a great job with the highs and lows with emotion so that the narration isn’t monotone. He is great about maintaining the different voices from book to book in a series. I did feel a bit bad for in this book because he couldn’t skip the torture sections. (I did read them the first time I read the book).

Here is a quote from the book, “Considering how close Phaedra had grown to Sean throughout her rescue and short time on base, and through him, Alexei, Phaedra had been more than willing to live with the Dvorkins. She’d lost her entire family through Valerie’s sadistic experiments; any distant relatives had been told she’d died for security purposes. DNA identification was still ongoing for a good number of the dead found buried on Declan’s ranch in mass graves, so it was easy to add her supposed death in with everyone else’s. The MDF had created and filed a new, legal identity for her, and despite her young age, Phaedra know how important it was to keep secrets. Trauma would do that to a person.”. There is so much more but you will need to read the book which I can highly recommend. The series is one of the best that I have read. Oh, and by the way I need book #5 NOW!!! I voluntarily read an advance copy of this book for an honest review.

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Astounding but hard to listen to in places

This is a powerful story for so many reasons. The mission that went sideways in so many ways, the rising tension between Jamie Callaghan, leader of the MDF Alpha Team, and his father, the horror of the terrorist attacks in Boston...everything is portentous and too real in the world Hailey Turner has been building over the course of this series. The metahumans in Jamie's team are confronted with increasingly more difficult and -- thanks to Stanislav, the precog metahuman in the enemy camp -- unexpected challenges as they work to complete their mission. That the men were able to overcome, despite everything that happens to them, and find their way back to their lovers, is miraculous.

The pain in this story is overwhelming, and I need to say that upfront. It was hard to listen to and finishing the story took much longer than I had expected. I found myself supremely angry that the author chose to present so MUCH of the actual in-the-room torture that Alexei and Sean suffered at the hands of the Irish terrorist Killian. I understand the need for her to ensure that her readers fully appreciate and believe in the reality of the horrors the men had to endure, but to my ears, it seemed like overkill. I was not a fan of those parts of the story at all.

Greg Boudreaux does a great job of evoking the varying emotional statuses of the men whose journey we follow in this story. I enjoyed this book, probably more because of his performance than I would have had I had to read it on my own. Despite the awful agony of listening to some parts of it, his rendition made it easier to bear. Had I had to read those sections on my own, I would probably have skipped over them.

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