Review by r1vana - The Sound of You

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r1vana 's review for:

The Sound of You by Ashley Mack

4.75

dark emotional funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

“You can't talk, can you?

[…]

Well, I can talk enough for both of us.”

Tropes/kinks

Mute ML

Both have scars aka trauma bonding

Voyeurism (FFM)

Primal(chase)

Possessive ML

Age gap (F24-M30)

This book is the third in the series. There

are some part that were confusing since I

don't know what happens in the two

previous book. Nonetheless, I really liked

this book. I love the dynamic between

Harp and Aro.

Aro:

Harp is hunting me, and I am happy to be his prey. When he catches me, I hope he devours me until there is nothing left. want to be consumed by him.

She was in a car accident/murder in which her father was killed and she bears a scar on her face. Due to the survival guilt and constant reminder whenever she sees her scar or whenever others look at her face, she turns to

alcohol.

When she first saw Harp, she knew she should be skeptic of him but that doesn’t stop her from being attracted to him:

“I’ve never acted on anything I felt about a man before. Everything was always in my head, my imagination better than any reality, I was sure of it.

She is relatable: she loves to read and doesn’t have a social life: I'm

boring. I'm books. I don't have a life, I don't have friends, I've never had a boyfriend. I've never even had sex! Ugh!"

Harp.
I was in a prison of trauma's making and she's freeing me.

He saw her at her father's funeral.

The moment he saw her, he realized that

he wanted to help her; get through the

grief and come stronger:

The first time I saw her I knew she was special. I knew that I was meant to help her. It never occurred to me she'd help me too.

We are going to kill Shadow, the last remnant of Nathaniel, and I'm going to let her go and be the person she was always meant to be before my brother got in her way.

So, with Owen,

Aro's future brother in law, he plans to help

her recover until he finds where the murder is. Aka his own brother.

What he didn't expected is for Aro to return his feelings and actually makes small approach. The more bold she got the more he couldn't resist. The moment he got a taste of her, he was a goner.

I love his character. I like how he can comprehend and respect Aro and does not pressure her to be around him and to profess her depression to him like some, other book

male. He is patient. But that doesn’t stop himself for being extremely overwhelmed by her close proximity:

I want to touch her, hold her, and fuck her until nothing and no one in the universe exists for her except me. I want to be the center of not just her attention, but her entire goddamn world.

Because she's become the center of mine.

Aro is the reason for everything. Every breath I bother to take is because she's in the world. I've never met anyone who brought so much brightness to others simply by existing. From the way she sits and smiles even when there's no obvious reason to smile.

As a mute himself, heknows what it's like to have a scar and how the society looks it and judge. (A scar given by her own brother as well.)

And he got dimples. He only smiles when he is with her.

He reads her fav romance books and he challenges her to reenact it:
what was turning you on? What did you like?

It takes a lot of work to heal from one's

past. He learns just how worth it it all it.

The spice was good; the exhibition/voyeurism scene; the chase; the mirror🔥

The only reason I removed .5 star is her family drama. In a way I understand why they are scared to lose her… but in my opinion it felt like they were gonna shelter her.

And I wished we got a HEA pov of both of them, cuz now the epilogue is the other sister.

Content Warnings