• Catch a Ghost

  • By: SE Jakes
  • Narrated by: Adam North
  • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (217 ratings)

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Catch a Ghost

By: SE Jakes
Narrated by: Adam North
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From New York Times best-selling author Stephanie Tyler, writing as S. E. Jakes....

Everyone knows that Prophet - former Navy SEAL, former CIA spook, full-time pain in the ass - works alone. But his boss at Extreme Escapes, Ltd. has just assigned Proph a new partner and a case haunted by ghosts from Proph's past. Suddenly he has to confront both head-on.

Tom Boudreaux - failed FBI agent, failed sheriff, full-time believer in bad luck - is wondering why the head of a private contracting firm has hunted him down to offer him a job. Still, he's determined to succeed this time, despite being partnered with Prophet, EE's most successful, lethal, and annoying operative, on a case that resurrects his own painful past.

Together Prophet and Tom must find a way to take down killers in the dangerous world of underground cage matches while fighting their own dangerous attraction. When they find themselves caught in the crossfire, these two loners must trust each other and work together to escape their ghosts...or pay the price.

©2013 SE Jakes (P)2015 Audible, Inc.

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The jury is still out on this one

Although this is very popular series and I enjoyed the audio book much more than the e-book, I'm still not sure I'm going to continue the series. I just didn't connect with either MC or them as a couple, which they are and are not. This may be one of those series where it takes a couple of books to get into the story. As it stands now, I like Tommy and admire him putting up with Prophet's crap, but at some point I was like "man, walk away." I know Prophet is all "tortured soul" but sometimes he is just an a**hole. Also I found the case they were working on kind of convoluted and I was saying "huh?" a lot. Again, this may be because the series has to read as a whole. The narrator does a great job but I wish he had done a Cajun accent for Tom, it would have added a great deal to his character.

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Audio edition, narrated by Adam North
8 hours and 3 min

Overall: 4
Performance: 3,5
Story: 4

I was excited about this whole series being done in audio, and they were all released recently this December. I originally rated this book 3,5 stars (the ebook), but I've bumped up my rating, since I've read the whole series and have grown to love Prophet and Tom and I feel this first book deserves more than 3,5 stars.

The Hell & High Water series is the only work of Adam North on Audible, so he's a new narrator for me. He does a good job narrating. His voice is deep and rough, so it fitted with the characters.
I liked it, but I didn't quite love it. Or, it's more mixed. I think he does a great Prophet voice, and overall narration. Tom's voice isn't very good, though, in my opinion. He should have had more Southern drawl. North just draws out the words instead of having a drawl to the words. I don't know how to explain it better.

All in all, I enjoyed this audio, and I recommend it.

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Lovin It

I've read this series twice so I was excited when I saw it was becoming an audio book. I always hope the narrator is able to make the voices sounds distinct and true to the authors description. This narrator nails it. I love Tommy's cajun accent and how he has captured Prophets personality through dialogue. The plot is bland, but the characters make up for it just because they are so interesting.

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OMG I love this series!

Prophet and Tom are two men thrown together as mercenaries, forced to be partners when neither wants one.

Prophet is slowly going blind and won’t tell anyone about it. Tommy is “cursed” with the bad luck of killing his partners off but won’t tell anyone about it.

They both have a TON of chemistry and no ability to share their feelings.

In addition, Prophet and Tom are working on a case where Prophet knows the family and has a history with the victim.

People are trying to kill them – but that’s nothing new to either man.

In the end, they’ll have to let the other guy in or risk losing him and maybe their lives.

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This is an absolutely amazing series written by SE Jakes. She’s a gifted character creator and has a strong knowledge of the military and the associated government agencies. She eventually brings in characters from her other series, Men of Honor.

In this series we find Tommy and Prophet coming together yet pushing each other away time and again and a mystery involving John, Prophet’s former friend/partner/lover.

Prophet’s decreasing eyesight and perpetual PTSD make him a complex and unique character whose inner workings are never exactly sane. Tommy’s voodoo Cajun mysticism make him a wonderful partner for Prophet and he adds a slight sense of the paranormal to these stories.

I love the chemistry with these guys – it’s scorching hot. My favorite aspect of the series. I get pretty confused by the mystery and sometimes lost in the action but I can always find my way in the end and I’m pretty invested in these guys and their romance.

The secondary characters get some play as well and they are very well developed and fun. Cillian and Mal, Blue and Mick each have their own books.

I highly recommend this book to fans of adventure and mayhem with a touch of rough and dirty sex thrown in.

Audio

We’ve been waiting a LONG TIME for these to come to audiobook format and I gotta tell you I was nervous since I wasn’t familiar with the narrator. Well… he did an AWESOME job! There are some annoying phrases and things he does now and then (his pronunciation of was for example…) but for the most part he does a wonderful Cajun for Tommy and a snarky and wonderful Cillian and Proph, Blue and Mick are all done well.

I highly recommend both the series and the audiobook and am looking forward to more!

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Disappointing To Say The Least

This book started out with so many similarities to Cut & Run that I wondered how there weren't any plagiarism claims...it would have been better if it stuck to that. It should be noted that Cut & Run is probably my one favourite M/M series ...like seriously it's my phone case. (well, up until Stars & Stripes it was one of my favourites and then it all just went to hell...but that's a different review)
**The narrator's voice for Tommy was HORRIBLE!!!!! I think it made me dislike Tommy even more** >=[
So in comparison to C&R:
Tommy, the character who is similar to Zane, was an annoying, overbearing, doesn't know when to back off, prick. Zane, I like a lot, but this jerk was a complete GAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prophet, was a lot like Ty, so he was likable.
Cillian I liked a lot. I ship Cillian x Prophet sooo much more than Tommy x Prophet
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So disappointing =(

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Not the best narrator but not the worst

What did you love best about Catch a Ghost?

Love Tom and Prophet even when I want to smack them especially Prophet.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Catch a Ghost?

That Prophet comes off so alpha male yet can be submissive to Tom especially during post migraine sex. Also, Toms voodoo sense.

What aspect of Adam North’s performance would you have changed?

His Tom accent. It sometimes made Tom sound slow and stupid. He needed to listen to guys with a Cajun accent and then mellow it somewhat, since Tom hasn't always lived in the bayou. He does a great job with Prophet though. Cillian voice is ok. Also instead of saying Helo with a long e for helicopter he kept saying it with a short e and sounded like "hel o".

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Nope just get annoyed with Prophet sometimes.

Any additional comments?

Adam does a great job with Prophet but other accents not so much. His narration is good not fast and he puts emotion in where it's needed but doesn't get overly dramatic.

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Great Series

Okay I was lucky enough to purchase this series when all four and a half books were available, because let's face it I'm not a person who likes to wait for anything so when you're hooked on a series and have to wait for a book to come out it kind of sucks. That being said I was hesitant to purchase this series at first because of the reviews being so mixed but I'm so glad I did, the character development on the two main characters and all the side characters are so wonderfully developed that I felt like I knew them. Prophet and Toms journey towards a partnership/ relationship was a gradual progression marred by the past, present and future of these beautiful tortured souls.
I have close to 1,500 books in my library and about 60% of them are of the m/m genre. I used to choose these books by author first, then the storyline and lastly narrator. but that changes quickly when you listen to a really great book with a really bad narrator. so now my book choices are narrator first, storyline and lastly author. And let me tell you something Adam (Cooper?) North knocked this narration out of the park. His cadence his timing, even his accents literally brought all the characters to life especially the MC's. He is the reason why books 2, 3, 3.5 were purchased and is also a go to read for me. I have 3 favorite series that I re-listen to every now and then and Hell or High Water is one, Marshalls by M. Calmes, and Cut and Run by A. Roux. These are must reads/listens. If you enjoy greats story's with excellent narration.
Oh, just one more thing I'm not sure whose decision it was to change narrators in the fourth book to this series ( WTF) but in my opinion it did not work.... at all, narrator made Prophet sound like a teenage boy, I ended up reading it.

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decent

Couldn't follow the story at times. All in all decent. Narration was also just OK.

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Lowest score I can give,

the cajun voice is so slurred and so much lower volume than the other character voice, that I got really tired of adjusting the volume, and rewinding to figure out what he said. Didn't get far enough to have an opinion on the story.

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LISTEN TO THIS SERIES

I loved this book. Listened to it twice and it was just as good. I love Prophet and Tom. They are such a cute couple. Scorching hot sexy times. Listen to this series!!!!

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