L. Blakely Audiobooks

The Winner Takes All: a complete romance collection, read by Teddy Hamilton

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.6/5 average

251 listener ratings

Main genres

LGBTQ+

Who is L. Blakely?

An initial and a surname make for a deliberately quiet byline, and L. Blakely lets The Winner Takes All Complete Collection handle the introductions instead. Our catalogue shelves the work under LGBTQ+ writing, and at thirty-seven hours the collection draws a complete run together into one listen.

The title is competitive by design. Winner takes all belongs to sport, to business, to any arena where the stakes are public and losing is visible. Romance built on that frame gets its tension for free, since the scoreboard and the heart rarely agree, and the length suggests the idea is worked through properly rather than resolved in a hurry.

L. Blakely in audiobooks

Teddy Hamilton narrates throughout, and consistency of voice across a span this long is worth a great deal: thirty-seven hours with a single reader becomes a world to inhabit rather than a queue of separate recordings.

The score sits high, four and a half stars and above across a couple of hundred verdicts, which is a solid endorsement in a corner of romance whose readers are notably vocal about what does and does not work for them. Newcomers should simply begin at the start of the collection and let it run in order. Browse what is listed below.