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  • The Protectors, Book 3
  • Written by: Sloane Kennedy
  • Narrated by: Joel Leslie
  • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)

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Retribution

Written by: Sloane Kennedy
Narrated by: Joel Leslie
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"You're a hero every f--king day, Tate," I said softly. "Don't ever forget that." (Hawke)

Ex-Special Forces soldier Michael "Hawke" Hawkins has spent every day of the last 10 years waiting for the moment he would get to watch the life fade from the eyes of the men who brutally murdered his wife, but when he finally gets the break he's been waiting for, the trail leads him to someone he wasn't expecting.

After nearly two years of running, 24-year-old Tate Travers has become an expert at hiding...until the day a dangerous stranger shows up looking for vengeance and threatens to destroy the fragile life Tate has managed to build for himself and his five-year-old son. Except the life Tate has been struggling to hold on to started unraveling long before Hawke showed up looking for the same men Tate has been running from...his own father and older brother.

Retribution - it's all Hawke has wanted since the day he held his wife's hand as she took her last breath. And he won't give that up for anything or anyone...not even the tormented young man trying to give his little boy a better life. Because Tate is the only one who can lead Hawke to the men he's been searching for. And if it means forcing the young man to confront the past that nearly destroyed him, then so be it.

Only the last thing Hawke expects to feel is something besides the hatred that has driven him. And he definitely never expected to feel it for a man.

But when it comes down to choosing between the unwanted feelings Tate stirs in him and the revenge he's finally close enough to taste, will Hawke be able to give up the one thing that has kept him going for a second chance at a future he gave up on ever having?

©2016, 2017 Sloane Kennedy (P)2017 Sloane Kennedy

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Retribution will break your heart at times. It is the tale of Michael "Hawke" Hawkins and his search for retribution in the death of his wife 10 years ago. He has finally got the break he needs and it involves a young man named Tate and his son Matty. Along the way Hawke finds himself falling for Tate, something that he would never have imagined for himself as he has been working on one thing for 10 years. Bringing the men to justice that killed his wife. Tate happens to be a means to that end as he is the son and brother of the men that killed Hawke's wife. Hawke blackmails Tate into helping him, along the way they fall for each other. Characters from the other books show up in this book and play a large role in what Hawke does now. You can't help but fall in love with 5-year old Matty. He just seems to attach to your heart and stay there. By the end of the book you want nothing but the best for Matty, Tate and Hawke.

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I'll give it a 3 and that's being generous and is only due to the last 2.5 hours finally getting out that nothing is happening boredom. Seriously this had very little plot with a lot of dragged out filler and what plot is there is seriously dull. The kid and appearances from Seth and Ronan def saved it from being a total snooze fest. So if you're will to tough it out the fir 5.5 hours it does get good in the very end.

This particular narrator is hit or miss for me. In the past when I've listened to him it was pretty good but I found his drawn out soft tone in this one kept making me wanna fall asleep. I will give him credit for differentiating the characters voices enough to know who was talking which made it easy to follow.

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