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    Good Intentions
    Good Intentions
    Good Intentions
    Audiobook8 hours

    Good Intentions

    Written by J. D. Trafford

    Narrated by Will Damron

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    About this audiobook

    An Amazon Charts bestseller.

    A harrowing legal thriller from the bestselling author of Little Boy Lost.

    Judge Jim Thompson’s world is unraveling. He’s facing public backlash on a decision-gone-wrong for a young boy in foster care and, even worse, he’s just discovered that his mentor, Judge Meyer, has been murdered.

    Despite his self-doubt in the face of media scrutiny, Jim is determined to continue his friend’s legacy—and find his killer. As he digs into the mysterious death, Jim comes across a case that had haunted the judge for decades—a case he couldn’t let go of. Judge Meyer had worked hard to find the right solutions for foster children, but rulings in such cases are never simple, and his decisions may have cost him his life.

    As Jim searches for answers, he begins to see similarities between his mentor’s past and his own present. Now it’s up to him to learn from his late friend’s mistakes and track down a killer—before he loses everything that matters to him.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 19, 2018
    ISBN9781543642049
    Good Intentions
    Author

    J. D. Trafford

    Award-winning author J.D. Trafford, described as “a writer of merit” by Mystery Scene magazine, has topped numerous Amazon bestseller lists, including reaching #1 on the Legal Thrillers list. IndieReader selected his debut novel, No Time to Run, as a bestselling pick. Trafford graduated with honors from a top-twenty law school, and he has worked as a civil and criminal prosecutor, as an associate at a large national law firm, and as a nonprofit attorney. He’s handled issues of housing, education, and poverty in communities of color. Prior to law school, he worked in Washington, DC, and lived in Saint Louis, Missouri. He now lives with his wife and children in the Midwest, and he bikes whenever possible.

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    • 5/5
      Whew! This book was just sitting on my KU account since 2016! Let this be a huge lesson to authors that some of us readers do take a bit of time to get to your work on KU. Just because we take nearly 2 years, it doesn't mean there is anything inherently wrong about your work. Sometimes real life responsibilities simply take a lot of free time from you.

      That aside, if you are looking for a puritannical and highly philosophical story about the inherent dangers of the spiritual implications when an Average Joe becomes bonded by forbidden magic with a horny succubus and an even hornier bad mouthed angel, you will be highly disappointed. And if you wanted to read this book to your small kids, well, um, this book might not be rated PG 13. No point in hacking up all of the saucy good parts of the novel!

      If you don't mind lots of lusty sex scenes between very willing and very hormonal participants where some of them are supernatural beings with lots of humor, then this is the read for you! Alex is just an all around nice 19 year old guy who wants to impress two cute Goth chicks at his community college Photography class. His infallible plan to gain their attention? Visit the local cemetery somewhere in Seattle after dark without asking for permission. What could possibly go wrong?

      Wait, are those two women screaming in agony in the nearby chapel? Alex rushes to the rescue and realizes some sicko dressed in priest robes and two goons have mutilated and chained up two attractive (and very naked) women. Presuming the women were going to be gang raped and the likelihood of the cops being too late to save them, Alex grabs some pepper mace from his backpack and knocks the goons unconscious. Unfortunately, one of them accidentally splashes a cup with the womens' blood on his face during the rescue, and after watching the very pissed off brunette chick burn the culprits to ashes, the women confess to Alex that they aren't human! The couth blonde named Rachel is a low ranking messenger angel, whereas the rather irate brunette named Lorelei is a succubus sex demon. The priest mutilated their bodies and Alex accidentally became bonded to both of them seemingly for life during their rescue. Lorelei pretty much has nowhere to go, so Rachel proposes that he takes her to his home while she sorts things out with the angel council.

      And then, this is where all of the fun starts. Now, I don't want to spoil the fun twists and turns that this story takes. Lorelei is both manipulative and attentive towards her new and very benevolent master, whereas Alex starts to shed away his innate shyness and a small sparkle of love seems to erupt between them both. Of course, explaining to your mom and friends that you are dating a 1000 year old sex demon that looks 10 years older than you might seem a bit.... complicated. While the countless sex scenes were very fun to read, I do think the first half of the book tried to overdo them a bit too much, and didn't particularly find the fling with Jocelyn to bring anything of importance to the plot. I did find the other friends to be well-rounded and the mischief Lorelei does to the people Alex cares about to be very funny (imagine seeing your mom looking 10 years younger and hotter all of the sudden while you are only trying to eat your Fruit Loops and you get a boner! Whoa!).

      The final battle scene of the book was really great and it wrapped things up very well. Again, I would not like to spoil things. I do think the book could have been 20-30 pages shorter, but otherwise, it was an insanely fun read and I reccomended it to one of my friends. I'll likely have to buy it in paperback as a gift. I will indeed read the sequels sometime and award this book 4 1/2 stars.
    • 2/5
      I like Kay’s more recent sf series a lot, but this earlier fantasy is one in which a young man accidentally interrupts a spell and ends up bonded to an angel and a succubus who just loves to teach him about sex and tell him how good he is at sex and give him things etc. Waaaaay down the Id Vortex, and since his id and my id have little overlap in this regard, I stopped reading; I can’t exclude the possibility that he complicated the scenario more later on.