Always My Hero

The Dexter Brothers, Book 1

By: Taylor Jade

Narrated by: Giancarlo Herrera, Hannah Schooner

Everyone knew the Dexter brothers. In school, they were royalty, and their kingdom was the football field, the crowd their subjects.

While most people in our small town stayed and went to the community college nearby, the Dexter brothers all left, each with a full-ride football scholarship to play at some hotshot university on the other side of the country.

I left too, but I only went one state away, far enough away to get out of the small town I grew up in.

But now, 10 years later, I was back, feeling like the same shy, nervous 18-year-old girl I was when I left.

All at once, it felt like everything and nothing had changed.

But Archer Dexter was back, dreams of becoming a famous NFL player crushed because of a career-ending injury.

He’s now the town mechanic and tow-truck driver.

And when my car breaks down, he’s my only hope of getting out of this wretched town that I should have never come back to.

©2022 Taylor Jade (P)2022 Taylor Jade

Cute Story

This book had a lot of potential with a good plot line. The repetitive use of “dove” of other lines got a little irritating but not enough to dislike the book. It was a cute story and an easy read.

Great narration, slow-moving story

This is a sweet romance with no spice. McKenna returns to the small town where she grew up after her mother's death only to come face-to-face with the boy she always loved, who she didn't know had also returned to town after his own dreams didn't work out. I liked the premise and Archer was a total sweetheart. What frustrated me was the way McKenna stuck to her own narrative and the victim role she created for herself. He would tell her flat-out that he would be there for her, and in the next sentence she'd be claiming she was all alone in the world. This cycle repeated over and over, which made the story drag a bit.

The duet narration was fantastic and made me stick with the story until the sweet ending.

I liked it until I didn’t spoiler review

I liked it until I didn’t and then I DNFed it. I couldn’t get past the chapter of her crying at her mom’s funeral. Yes my mom is still alive but my sympathy for our FMC was absent at that point.

Blah

The narration was hard to listen to. The southern accents were over done and sounded ridiculous. The slow drawl made the characters sound ignorant. The story itself was blah a lot of the scenes were pointless and drama inserted for no reason.