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As You Wish (shatterproof Bond Book 1) by Isobel Starling | Cat’s Audio Review & #giveaway @isobel_starling @gary_furlong_Vo @TTCBooksandmore

As You Wish
Shatterproof Bond, Book 1
By: Isobel Starling
Narrated by: Gary Furlong
Series: Shatterproof Bond, Book 1
Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 05-09-17
Language: English
Publisher: Isobel Starling
Whispersync for Voice-ready

Winner of the 2018 Audiobook Reviewer Award for Romance

One wedding, two best men, one hell of a love story! 

Declan Ramsay's brother Oliver was marrying Annabelle Aiken at a fairytale castle on the banks of Loch Ness in Scotland. The bride and groom decided that Annabelle's gay younger brother would share the best man duties with Declan. Declan had never met the kid who was to be his joint best man. Sam Aiken was abroad, working as an interpreter and finishing his studies. He wouldn't meet Declan until a few days before the wedding, so the best men communicated and planned their speech by email for more than a year. 

But on meeting Sam Aiken, Declan is surprised to realize the kid isn't a kid at all, but a tall, blond, and athletic young man. Declan is sure he's straight, so he's alarmed by the ferocious attraction he feels for Sam. And as the attraction is reciprocated, the events at Dunloch Castle change everything Declan has ever believed about himself. 

But, is Samuel Aiken all that he appears to be? 

©2015 Isobel Starling (P)2017 Isobel Starling

Buy links: Audible Amazon

Cat gives this one 5 Meows...

I picked this up from the author from a free audiobook site. I was expecting a good MM romance and I got that. What I wasn’t expecting was the added bonus of a twist leading into the next books. (I will let you see what that is on your own.) I was pleasantly surprised and was like OMG!

Sam and Declan are both best men at Sam’s sister and Declan’s brother’s wedding. They have been exchanging emails for a year. Declan also works for Sam’s dad. What Declan didn’t expect was his attraction to the younger man, since Declan is straight. (or at least thought so and no this is not the surprise twist.)

I loved all the characters, the setting, and the writing style. I was engaged from the beginning.

This is a new to me narrator and while not a favorite I did like the accents. I think that was the perfect touch to make this story even more intriguing.

If you like romantic settings, castles, age gap, gay for you, and shocking twists this is for you.





Isobel Starling spent most of her twenty-year professional career making art in Ireland. She relocated to the UK and, faced with the dreaded artist's creative block, Isobel started to write and found she loved writing more than making art.


The Shatterproof Bond series is an Amazon Gay Romance bestseller and has been translated into French, German, and Italia. The series is also available as audiobooks, narrated by Gary Furlong. Book #1 in the series "As You Wish" was the only M/M Romance finalist in the Romance Category of the Audiobook Reviewer Awards 2018.

"Sweet Thing" is now out as an audiobook, narrated by Gary Furlong.
"Fall Together" and "Sweet Thing" will be translated into French by Reines- Beaux Publishing.
"Silken" is out in German, and will be translated into Italian and French in 2018. The audiobook version is narrated by Gomez Pugh.



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