Chase Me Home

Bridge to Abingdon Series, Book 3

By: Tatum West

Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Tor Thom

Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

Elias: I broke Zane Chase's heart on the night of my high school graduation. I played straight for years, pushing love away at every turn. I created a picture perfect life - I built a billion dollar company, married a good girl, had a kid. I hid myself for decades, and I got exactly what I wanted.

But it all came crashing down. My company fired me, the wife ditched my gay a$s and took our daughter with her. The only place to go is home. My first night Abingdon, I run right into Zane. His crystal blue eyes and sculpted body wake something deep inside of me.

Zane: Elias Spaulding is a total d*ck. He's rude and presumptuous - seems he never learned any damn manners. He's got wild ideas, fast cars, and more money than God. He's everything a wild-child, punk artist like me should hate. But he's the most fascinating man I've met in years. And deep down, he's the same boy who stole that first kiss from me in the darkness of my dorm room.

Beneath his bad attitude is a man who wants a real life - a home, a family, someone to love. I was never the kind to settle down, not since I left for New York. But something's telling me that Elias might be worth the trouble.

Contains mature themes.

©2019 Tatum West (P)2019 Tantor

I love this series

The stories are great. athe author did a fabulous job. The only issue I have with these books is the duel narration. Alex is an amazing narrator and alone the performance would be 5 Stars all the way But Thor is not a good narrator in my opinion He ruins the narration of this whole series

The whole collection

This one was legit the last book I read because it required me to buy it. I didn’t mind whatsoever. I loved this book just like I loved all the others in this series. This series is amazing! I am so sad I finished all the books. I highly recommend this series!

very good

Loved it !! this story. the narrator is so fantastic it's like your really there!! After listening to this story,. I totally enjoyed reading this book. It’s well written and the characters were uniquely fantastic. I would suggest this book to my friends that like this sort of genera. this was a good book. The narrator was great.

Way to much drama

I typically try to read the blurb of books to see how much angst or drama is involved. This was too much. I get that no one has a perfect life and stuff gets thrown at you but damn. Zane is getting the short end of the stick. Elias is an whiny billionaire and needs some serious counseling. His kid also needs serious counseling and a full time nanny. He’s a billionaire. Good god hire someone. I completely understand kids on the spectrum. But this book took it way too far.

Trigger Warnings re: Autistic Spectrum (continued)

Continued: Emotional Abuse /Neglect, Implied/Threatened Physical Abuse (including improper medication), Mental Illness and, well, that’s the tip of the Very Unromantic Iceberg, folks.

Possibly (unintentionally?) harrowing book.

If the author has personal experience with high functioning autistic people / people on the autistic spectrum, they ought to know better than to send this book out into the world without some warnings to potential readers or listeners. If the author did not know better, perhaps any editor, agent or even friend could have advised them about this “heartfelt” book.

If the author simply did a lot of research to use a ‘popular’ topic (autism is trendy, apparently) as a backdrop for their book, one which they assumed would be consumed by unafflicted readers who might need a barrage of mental illness and abuse to add tension to the romance format, well, they accomplished that. It’s unfortunate.

Let’s not forget self-hate and homophobia as triggers, self-harm by a minor, seriously, I can’t include all of it.

That said, the characters don’t stay consistent or evolve as naturally as they do in the other books in this series. Some go from caring and supportive to unreliable, then oddly lacking in the compassion they claim to have learned from one or more people on the spectrum.

There is at least one very long list of the nifty and uplifting things one character believes they’ve learned from being in contact with one person on the spectrum. It falls flat when that same character vacillates in affection, family interaction, emotional and other physical actions or choices which affect other autistic people in serious and harmful ways.

Since this is fiction, perhaps this will all be tied up in a brain-wipe happy shiny bow by the end.

Yes. I stopped to write this warning before finishing the book.

If you have sensitivity to this topic, it honestly is not worth the foreshadowed chocolate flavored lube use or whatever else passes for “spicy” in the world of MM fantasy sex scenes. They’re not bad scenes, some are physically less than feasible so much so as to interrupt suspension of disbelief, but that’s fairly common.

If you’re looking for a romance amongst the rubble of abandonment, abuse, mistreatment, casual verging on callous interaction with very vulnerable characters which is treated so offhandedly in the book that this reader would prefer an honest and attentively written murder to reading what appears to be throw-away use of mental illness and mental differences in the guise of understanding (?) —if you’re able to power through all the other trauma and disjointed behavior of the main characters, I wish you luck.

Maybe this review will help someone.

Now my compulsive gay ass is going back to try to finish this thing. If you’re the type that can’t walk away from an unfinished book and have any strong triggers mentioned above, proceed with care.