Breaking Giants

By: L.M. Halloran

Narrated by: Charlotte North, Aaron Shedlock

Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

The greatest love songs break your heart.

When I meet Julian Ashburn, the reclusive frontman of indie-rock legends Breaking Giants, I do what any sane woman would do. Embarrass myself, then insult him. Because you only live once, right? Besides, keeping my distance from the enigmatic songwriting genius is an act of self-preservation. Julian is dangerous - a pool of kerosine to my pyromaniac. I have a weakness for broken men.

But sometimes the stories we tell and the songs we sing - about family, love, and ourselves - have to be rewritten in order for us to grow. Call it fate, or stars aligning, or cosmic accident, but I'm about to find out that of the two of us, Julian isn't the broken one.

Contains mature themes.

©2017 L.M. Halloran (P)2018 Tantor

⭐️F⭐️I⭐️V⭐️E⭐️ Hell Yeah stars, ‘WITH A BULLET’

First off let me say, I got this book because I love Aaron Shedlock and Charlotte North is also one of my favorite narrators! But... Aaron only gives the epilogue!!! I really hate when audible does this , it is so deceitful !!!!
That being said, Charlotte is truly amazing with all voices and really makes a story come alive with her talent!
Wow this story has so much real life stuff going on. L M really knows how to pack in all the emotion, desire, shame, guilt, love, loss and life lessons packed in with hot as f**k rock gods, and well...... you really just need to spend the credit or coin to see for yourself!! I promise you won’t be disappointed!! Thank you L M for another great can’t put it down story!!

Should pay more attention to reviews

I do love romance, love the angst etc, but this just gave me a slimy sick feeling. I couldn’t see any redeeming qualities in Julian. Everything is her fault, or anyone’s other than him?
I usually don’t leave a review but still trying to shake the sleazy feeling away,

10/10 would recommend!

I loved everything about this book, from the narration to the story line! I would definitely recommend this book! As someone with parents that struggled with addiction, I could relate to Rose.

I LOVED IT.. AND HATED IT

Because of an audible glitch, I am replacing apostrophes with *s.

This rockstar romance was a very slow ebb and flow because Julian, the sexy frontman for super-band Breaking Giants, wasn*t free to pursue the instant attraction he felt as soon as he met Coffee Shop owner Rose when he performed incognito at her open mic night. Their bad timings continued for well over a year and, during that time, there was plenty of angst, drama and heartache.. but it wasn*t all down to Julian - because Rose had emotional baggage too from her deceased rockstar parent*s toxic marriage and lifestyle. And, other than brief *stolen moments* in time, these two soul-mates would have to wait long and hard for their HEA.

+++ SPOILER ALERT +++
I really liked this very addictive listen but.. and it*s a big BUT, I was torn.. after eventually proclaiming his undying love to Rose, begging forgiveness for hurting her so badly and promising he would wait for her for however long she took, Julian couldn*t (and didn*t) even wait six weeks before he was cheating.. and may have continued if Rose hadn*t found out. This really didn*t sit well with me.. I like a hero to be a hero not a cheating a$$hole.. and the second *other woman* angst and drama left a bitter taste. So I loved then loathed Julian.. and his actions pressurized Rose who went from being a strong heroine into a self-sacrificing one.

Worth a credit? Yes.. or maybe no. One star.. or maybe four. This emotional rollercoaster could*ve been beautiful and epic.. and it was so heading that way, but, (IMO) it sadly went off the rails at the 85% mark after the gut-wrenching revelation and I just couldn*t get my happy back. It was told from Rose*s PoV and Charlotte North did a great job narrating it - with Aaron Shedlock only doing the Epilogue. I*m torn by my mixed feelings on this one as I wanted the sweet fantasy not the bitter sucker-punch of reality.. however you may well see beyond and love it.

good story...good amount of angst

this is how angsty romance should be written... so many books just use the same old tired lines for their "issues" between couples in books... it's almost always a tired old line about my mom or dad was never there so I don't want a relationship just sex so my "walls" are so high no one gets through... I'm so sick of hearing that tired old line this was refreshing in a sense that it may be the same issues any relationship faces but at least it was not done in a terrible way the story flows well I like the writing very much

Great listen!

I loved this audiobook! The narration was great. The story keeps you hooked and you feel every emotion along with Rose. A great listen!

So Much Struggle

Aaron Shedlock only narrates a small portion. 99% of this book is the FMC and MC struggling. They go through so much and are torn apart so many times, some of it not believable. They can be so good with words and communication, but then a tiny thing will separate them and one simple sentence would have stopped it all, so frustrating. This is full of struggle and heartbreak and they don't get their HEA till the very end of the book. I found so much of this story to be quite sad and it brought so many tears. They made dumb choices full of self sabotage over and over again. MC is fighting for his life after an accident, begging for FMC to show up then tells her to leave so he can heal without her because she is part of the problem, really??!! Weeks and months go by with them hurting, but not speaking to each other. This one was far to sad for me.

Wow!

Excellent! Did not want it to end! The characters were well developed throughout the book and it was like I was there. Can’t wait for the next audiobook from the author!

disappointed!

I was so very disappointed with this book. the story was so boring and I found myself annoyed and wanting to scream at the lead female to stop being so pathetic . the whole I like you but... don't waste the credit.

 Complaining

First off, I am a proud, Seattle native and I honestly love the weather, Rose feels fake like she’s trying to hard to be something that she’s not, honestly she sounds way more like a Californian living in Seattle then a Seattle native. However, I could not get into the store at all, I’m not sure it’s the narration  or the personalities of all the characters, but I just did not feel anything, the characters felt flat in one dimensional. The characters are really immature in a lot of ways, and I think the story would’ve benefited from a duet narration, or at least having somebody read the Mail parts of the story, if you do, give this book a chance be ready for a lot of complaining.