After not having listened to audiobooks for probably months, I was really looking for a new audiobook I could listen to while driving to and from work. I figured that all those traffic jams would be a little less terrible while listening to a nice audiobook. And when I saw ‘Heart of Stone’ I thought it would have to be a sign.
In ‘Heart of Stone’ we meet Krystina Cole. Krystina recently finished college, and is busy looking for the perfect job. As focused as she is on her job hunt, she definitely isn’t looking for a man. But when she meets rich bachelor Alexander Stone she soon finds out she isn’t in control of her own will anymore. Alexander is handsome, and wants Krystina. And although they seem to be very different, they can’t seem to stay away from each other.
‘Heart of Stone’ was honestly not what I expected. Somehow I expected a romantic read about two characters who really shouldn’t be together. I expected a cliché story really. And I didn’t really feel the romance in this story. I enjoyed some moments between Krystina and Alexander. Especially when they met, and the moment they started to have sleepovers etc.
This book is in reviews compared a lot with ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’. Well, I don’t agree. Yes, there is SM in this book just like in Fifty Shades.. but I missed the romance which made reading about SM tolerable for me. So without the romance feelings, I just didn’t really like this book. And I did feel the romance in Fifty Shades, I believed there love. In this book the SM bothered me, the characters weren’t really two people I liked and I just couldn’t connect with them as much as I hoped.
As with every audiobook I always need to get ‘used’ to the narrators. And Lacy Lauren and Jeffrey Kafer where to narrators I had not listened to before. Especially Lacy Lauren took me a very long time to get used to. Her voice was just different and I didn’t always thought the way she spoke fitted the story. She put the emphasis on a word differently than I would expect. But in the end I didn’t notice this as much anymore and I started to enjoy listening to her voice.
Jeffery Kafer didn’t have as much ‘speaking time’ as Lacy but it was definitely fun to listen to his voice. I could easily picture a strong character while I listened to his voice.
This book gets a three star rating for me. It was fun, but not really for me. And I do wonder if I would have liked this story more if I read it myself instead of listening to the audiobook?