Sea of Love: Love in Bloom, Book 7 (Unabridged‪)‬

Sea of Love is the fourth installment in the Braden Brothers series. This book picks up 15 months after the Snow sister’s, Danica and Kaylie’s, destination wedding in the Bahamas. In Sisters in White, they meet their recently discovered half-sister, Lacy. Over the course of the wedding festivities, Lacy falls for shark researcher, Dane Braden. In the intervening 15 months, Dane and Lacy strike up a long distance friendship.

Sea of Love picks up when Dane and Lacy finally come together in person again. In true Melissa Foster fashion, she tackles the issue of traumatic phobias. Lacy has a history of being attacked by a shark when she was a child and must move past her fears to have the relationship with Dane that they want. Dane was incredibly understanding and set up experiences to help Lacy become desensitized to the sharks. The subplot with Dane’s second in command battling alcoholism was well handled. The connection between Dane and Lacy was clear and their falling in love and working through their relationship was inspiring. Lacy was the only one of the three Snow sisters that I really liked.

As usual, B.J. Harrison did a great job with the narration.

A great overall read! Looking forward to the next installment in the Braden series.

***I received a free copy of this audiobook in exchange for my own, unbiased review.***

Sea of Love is the story of Lacy Snow (½ sister to Danica and Kailey aka Snow Sisters) and Dane Braden. Dane educates people around the world about the importance of sharks in our ecosystem. Lacy Snow is an account executive who was attacked by a shark as a young girl. The writing style of Melissa Foster is fun, loving, sexy, and a large family saga type of story. I enjoyed Dane and Lacy’s story more than I thought I would. These two are a hot mess. BJ Harrison narrates Sea of Love. I enjoy listening to BJ narrate for Melissa. BJ does a very fine job of narrating both the male and female characters. So far these early books have all been narrated by him. I have realized that the early books by Melissa are narrated pretty exclusively by BJ. Her more recent books have more variety in the narration department. I received an ALC in exchange for an honest review. ****

Sea of Love is such a great love story! We get Lacy's story, which I have been looking forward to since we met her at the Snow Sisters wedding! She had met Dane there and now they have been having a virtual relationship of sorts for months. Finally when they get together, the sparks ignite, but it that enough to hold them together? After all, Lacy hates sharks, Has a real fear for a good reason, but Dane's work is with sharks. Can they be together and have this dichotomy? When I first started listening to this, I wanted to nudge Lacy. Get over yourself and be the person Dane needs. But then I really began to understand her and began to think a little about it. She is quite the woman, facing her fears. Dane is a Braden, so we know he is sweet and loving. But he does hold back a bit, and we need to know why. Melissa Foster once again has caught my attention and kept me engaged for another Braden love story. She is a master at weaving original themes, and adding in a realistic story line that is current and real. We get this with Rob and his wife, and it's a look at real love, consequences and adjustments. I love her books and look forward to her next adventure with this family!

BJ Harrison is the voice of the Braden boys and I love him. Each book a different voice for the main character and as we get to see others we know, he consistency keeps the voice from previous books. It's a fun, refreshing listen and I know when I start, I am in for a treat.