A review by tmadams88
The Love You Fight For by Brit Benson

emotional inspiring

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Absolutely OBSESSED with this book on audio!!!! It’s one of those magical performance that makes you feel like you’re watching it all play out like a movie with how will the book was acted out. Sam and Chris’s story is such a compelling storyline that is heartbreaking yet powerful and beautiful at the same time and I cannot recommend it on audio enough!! 

 

📖 Sam is the daughter of a politician helping with her father’s campaign while Chris is a bar owner and works at a car shop in their small town. They know each other from childhood but come from two different social classes and couldn’t be more opposite. When she comes back to town and runs into Chris at the bar, you can already feel the tension and chemistry between them. Their journey is complex and not easy but this story will keep you captivated until the end!! 

 

🎧AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: 

WOW WOW WOW!!!! Have you ever read a book and imagined voices for characters in your head? Desiree Ketchum and Austin Stone sound exactly like who’d imagine for Sam and Chris and could not have been more PERFECTLY casted!! 

 

It’s a DUET narration, so you get their voices for their own characters throughout the entire book which just gave LIFE to Sam and Chris even more. For example, their banter in duet…an amazing back and forth delivery that completely captured the essence of their dynamic. 

 

Austin Stone...a new to me narrator who just made himself one of my top favorites! He is an incredible actor who not only brought out all the feelings of Chris but also used multiple distinct voices for each male character in this book that made me think like it was a full cast of male narrators at first. From a gruff tone for Sam’s dad, a creepy older man voice in the prologue that gave me chills and a fantastic South Carolina accent for Ashton. And his voice for Chris? Pure sultry perfection and he completely captured Chris and his personality. I also might have swooned every time he laughed…it is so damn adorable!🤭🫠 

 

Desiree Ketchum was outstanding in this audio as Sam!! She gave so much fierceness to Sam’s personality but on the flip side had so much passion in her voice for all the hard emotional moments as well. And her delivery of that emotion…impeccable!! From the yelling in anger, to the soft tone of sadness and hurt…I felt every note of her delivery as she narrated. Just a phenomenal performance by Desiree as well!! 

 

All that to say…this audiobook is worth every dime and credit!!! A flawless performance by both narrators as they delivered Brit Benson’s remarkable storytelling. This right here is an audio that will be listened to again and again and again!!!