• Homestead

  • By: Radclyffe
  • Narrated by: Abby Craden
  • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (676 ratings)

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Homestead

By: Radclyffe
Narrated by: Abby Craden
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Publisher's summary

Tess Rogers grew up in the midst of chaos and uncertainty, but she always knew one thing to be true - one day 600 acres of prime farmland would be hers. Then she discovers not even that truth can be counted on. Tess' stepfather has kept important secrets, and Tess' dream of breeding a line of organic dairy cows suddenly goes up in a burst of smoke and flame. R. Clayton Sutter is an expert at managing just about anything - money, businesses, and people. Getting NorthAm Fuel's newest shale refinery operational in the rolling hills of Upstate New York shouldn’t be much of a challenge, but then, she hadn't counted on dealing with vandalism, petitions, and a woman she’d never expected to see again - one who still haunts her dreams. When Tess and Clay square off on opposite sides of the heated debate, past and present collide in a battle of wills and unbidden desire.

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WOW

Radclyffe as the writer and Abby Craden as the narrator never disappoint,
The story is great, loved the characters and as always loved Abby Craden sexy voice.

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  • 09-22-20

Meh

Underdeveloped characters, weak story, and left with a ton of loose ends. Maybe would have helped if there was even a little time dedicated to the primary character’s previous summer “romance” it would make sense why the dramatic ending was so traumatic. Secondary and tertiary characters are introduced and seem to have a purpose and then just disappear. Not sure if this is just a pro fracking piece with a ghost of a plot around it to try and disguise or lazy writing.

Usually Radclyffe’s stories are formulaic and predictable but entertaining enough. This one is weird and predictable with a very frustrating and rather immature conclusion.

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A poignant second-chance love story wrapped around a battle to preserve small farms in eastern NY

It’s hard to understand others reviewers knocks on this book. Having lived in the Albany-Saratoga-Lake Charles-Cambridge, NY area for a number of years a decade ago, Radclyffe (who lives there now) beautifully describes the charm of the friendly small towns that dot the region, also haunted vacant store fronts and constant struggles of family-owned farms competing with huge agri-business.
In that setting, she captures the drama of two equally fascinating but very different women who, 15 years earlier, spent a glorious summer right after graduating from high school falling in love for the first time at Lake George. They were abruptly pulled apart without even saying goodbye, then unexpected encounter on another in the middle of an environmental dispute. One is a third-generation dairy farmer, the other develops fracking leases for her ruthless father’s oil company. In the middle of fraught negotiations over whether oil shale wells will damage the aquifer the farms depend on to stay in business, they discover the passion the shared is still very much alive. But so is distrust, anger, and misunderstanding of what drove them apart.
True, it’s not a predictable Dr. drama, or one of the many lesbian military or police procedurals that Radclyffe and dozens of other lesfic authors have popularized. But to me the only boring things about Homestead were the title, the cover, and too many burgers & beers. The plot is interesting with Radclyffe’s signature twists and turns, strong and sensitive characters, smokin’ sex, great dialog, and ever a Harley. I loved it.

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Radclyffe is overrated

Unpopular opinion here, this writer is highly overrated. This is my second book by this author and I find it again too angsty and long winded. Given the age of the characters, you would think they can have a conversation like adults but nope! Let’s be in our feelings and angsty and draw things out as painfully as possible argh 😡
I despise the “masculine” lesbian that always seems to feature in these books. Clay and Dev in the other book. Also how is everyone in some small town in back of beyond NY a lesbian 🙄 Like seriously 😒
Anyhoo, I think this author should write teen romance then the angsty assumptions and miscommunications won’t be as annoying

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Amazing WOW!

Amazing performance by Abby Craden, always love her sexy voice. She did an amazing job with all the characters. Loved the story and this is my second book with Radclyffe and Abby Craden and I must say I love that combination.

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Love, Lust and so much more!

My favorite author and narrator together again. How could I not love this. I love that it pulled from previous books with characters I loved then. There is enough intrigue so it's not just sexy women but a story linking the past, the present day issues as well as (spoiler alert) a happy ending.
I highly recommend this Audible book for all those craving a great lesbian story.💞

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Radclyffe never disappoints

And the narration by Abby Craden is always amazing. Off to see if there’s a sequel to this!

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Abby Craden is awesome.

Great story. Great performance. Would recommend to anyone who is a fan of Radclyffe books.

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Another good read from this author

As a stand alone, this is a good book, and storyline holds up, but as a sequel to ‘When Dreams Tremble’ it is great. I would highly recommend reading them in order. As always, Ms Craden gives life to every performance. I have come to love her pleasing tones, and find comfort in her seemingly effortless separation of characters.

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Typical but still good

Abby Craden, you are great and the main reason I listened to this story.

While I found this to be a wonderful story and recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good romance I do have some things I am becoming frustrated with in books in general and especially romance. Yes, the main protagonists know each other from the past, were once deeply in love or have fallen in love. Does this mean they have totally lost their minds? In some cases the answer is probably yes, love makes us do some crazy things and sometimes those standing on the outside looking in think we have totally gone off the deep end but does it have to be like this in almost every single book where two people fall in love?

In this particular book it would have been a perfect opportunity for a little change in the “template” by having Tess fall in love with Ella while keeping Clay at arm’s length. It would have been nice to watch Tess and Clay renew an old friendship while Tess and Ella worked their way into loves embrace but no the author keeps to the old worn out template that is becoming very boring to read and listen to (if not for great narrators like Abby) because we all know how the story will end after the first chapter and sometimes after reading the summary or back cover but I keep hoping some author will decide to deviate from the norm and throw in some stimulating plot twists instead of chaining themselves to a worn out template.

This was a good story but I am ready for a change and will keep hunting for that non “template” romance.

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