LISTEN-2-REVIEW - Destined for Love (Love in Bloom: The Bradens, #2) by Melissa Foster Narrator: B.J. Harrison

Destined for Love Audiobook

(Love In Bloom: The Bradens,#2)

by Melissa Foster 

Narrator B.J. Harrison

January 8th 2015

Listening Length: 8 hours

You met Rex Braden in Lovers at Heart, Book One of the The Bradens (Love in Bloom Series). Jade Johnson is about to turn his comfortable rancher's life upside down. Don't miss this powerful love story.

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DESTINED FOR LOVE is a hot contemporary romance with alpha male heroes and sexy, empowered women. They're flawed, funny, passionate, and very relatable for readers who enjoy adult romance, contemporary romance, and women's fiction.

Rex Braden is wealthy, hard working, and fiercely loyal. Sweat at his brow, he works the family ranch by day, then kicks back at night with part time lovers who require nothing more than his physical presence a few times each week. But that was before. Before Jade Johnson, the daughter of the man his father has been feuding with for over forty years, moves back into town.

After ditching a horrific relationship—and her veterinary practice in the process—Jade Johnson returns to the safety of her small hometown and finally finds her footing. That is...until her horse is injured and Rex Braden comes to her rescue. The last thing she needs is a bull-headed, too-handsome-for-his-own-good Braden complicating her life.

BRONZE MEDAL WINNER, Readers’ Favorite Awards, Romance Sizzle category

Despite the angry family history, sparks fly between Rex and Jade, and attitudes follow. Fifteen years of stifled, forbidden love stirs a surge of passion too strong for either to deny—and the rebel in each of them rears its powerful head. Loyalties are tested, and relationships are strained. Rex and Jade are about to find out if true love really can conquer all.



The Book Junkie Reads . . . Review of . . . DESTINED FOR LOVE (Love in Bloom: The Bradens, #2) . . .  Rex and Jade are back and scorching looks up and down go so much further when not in the presences of other Braden's. I highly recommend reading/listening to Lovers at Heart, Reimagined before jumping in feet first with Rex and Jade's story. You will go in to Destined for Love with more than you eyes open. 

I got answers to questions from the first in the Braden series. I wanted to know what bothered Rex so much that he was so bottled tight. I found a man that had so much put on his shoulders as a child, a teen, and then the life as an adult. He lived the code: Family first, Family honor, Family love, Family.

Jade had loved Rex for years. It was a forbidden love broken by family boundaries. Rex and Jade both wanted the other but saw no real way to achieve that and not disappoint their families.

There was a strong center of family, pride loyalty, friendship, love, destiny. And we can't forget Hope.

This single narrator did the job of making the characters come to life, but there was something missing. I think it has to do with the fact that it was a male bring female characters to life and they all seemed to run together. It was good that during most of the audio it was only Jade we had to deal with until it was time for Savannah and Jade's mom.


You got more of the Braden's clan and a feud that will melt your heart . . . 

Overall    4 out of 5 stars
Performance    3 out of 5 stars
Story    4 out of 5 stars

Author Info
Melissa Foster is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling and award-winning author. She writes sexy and heartwarming contemporary romance and new adult romance with emotionally compelling characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page. Melissa’s emotional journeys are lovingly erotic and always family oriented–perfect beach reads for contemporary romance lovers who enjoy reading about wealthy heroes and smart, sassy heroines.

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