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  • At First Irritation

  • The Unwilling Adventures of Harlow & Foxx, Book 1
  • By: Shelby Rhodes
  • Narrated by: Matt Williams
  • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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At First Irritation

By: Shelby Rhodes
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Summary

Welcome, welcome, I can only guess you are here to read about my wonderful adventures. Oh, you don’t know who I am? Well, I’m Foxx Honeywell. An adorable, fierce vampire with a kink for violence. Anywho, this marks the beginning of my story. A story of violence, blood, possibly pain, and love. Though the love part is not so apparent at first.

So how does this story start you may ask. Well, it starts with a simple… Okay, maybe not so simple, law change, and a new job. I, Foxx, join the notorious Hunters Guild. An organization that used to murder my kind indiscriminately. But that was in the past, we move on and forward to better things as paranormals are legal now! Yay, legal….

However, joining this government agency of questionable morals was just the catalyst of it all. Sure, the job is fun, with lots of killing, maiming, blood, and even some explosions. But what is an adventure if you are all on your own? Boring, that’s what. No, the true satisfaction and fun comes not just from the job but from my partner on the job, Harlow Blackmore. The man is a sexy, silver fox of a human, who may or may not be a psychopath. He also possibly finds me irritating as hell. As any rational adult would, I choose to ignore those last parts and focus on the sexy! It will surely all work out in the end!

CONTENT WARNING: This is a slow burn M/M paranormal romance book. There will be violence, blood, gore, and death. Please do not listen if you find any of the previous triggering.

©2023 Shelby Rhodes (P)2024 Shelby Rhodes
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Enjoyable Story that is well written with likeable characters and good world building. The narration is good as well.

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Grumpy vs sunshine

Harlow and Foxx were so great together.
Total and complete opposites they didn't initially get along.
There's lots of crazy going on and they're both a little unhinged which I absolutely love.
I really liked the new style of vampires the author created and I can't wait for more from these two.
Matt Williams did an amazing job bringing these characters to life.

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Loved everything

Grumpy middle aged man and a 100+ year old sunshine vampire forced to work together, what’s not to love

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Mixed feelings

I'm going to be honest I struggled a lot with this book. The book didn't grabbed my attention most of the time. I enjoyed the last third/quarter more tough (basically when they started having s€x) and I'm not sure why because it's not even about the s€x scenes. My brain just decided that the characters were finally working for me at that time so this last part raised my rating up.

I also have a complain with the plot arc which was quite vague and the end was too abrupt-I felt like the conclusion was kind of missing.

Anyways, despite all that, I'll probably read the next book because Shelby Rhodes is a 50/50 author for me-meaning I sometimes struggle with her books and other times I enjoy them a lot. So hoping book 2 will be more on the enjoying side.

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Absolutely Brilliant 💖


WOW........ Absolutely brilliant amazing book by Shelby Rhodes and in audio Matt Williams narration is simply fantastic love.... love.... the way he brings Foxx & Harlow to life the psychotic hunter and his sassy vampire working cases together loving the violence, gore and mayhem but also the banter and fun its so hilarious the chemistry between them is so very sexy these two are made for each other cant wait for next one in series Taste of Fear to be in audio i recommend so much. 💖

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