- Narration: One reader, Matt Williams, for four hours and forty-nine minutes of first-person scheming and explicit scenes.
- Themes: Colony and pack politics, mating bonds and forced turning, revenge planned across a decade, found family between species
- Mood: Violent, horny, propulsive
- Verdict: Strong if you already live in this world, and a poor place to begin whatever the packaging claims.
Four voices open this book and not one of them stops to explain itself. Noel is heading out to settle a debt his Father owes a dragon king. Elijah is waiting for a plan to land and for somebody named Deacon to come and get him. Vex has been granted permission to turn a human into a werewolf whether the human agrees or not. Kendrick has already killed an Alpha and a dragon king and intends to be the one left standing when the streets stop running with blood. The audiobook lasts four hours and forty-nine minutes and is credited to Matt Williams.
A Closer Look at Come and Get Me: Season One, Episode One
Noel is the closest thing to a protagonist, and the listing never tells you where he came from. Doll Peule, at five stars, fills that gap: he is the son and general of Theoden, prince of New Haven, and this book continues the adventures of Noel along with his brothers, his son and his father. That same account maps the newcomers, naming King Evander as the most beautiful dragon Noel has seen, Vex as a Dragon Knight, and Kendrick as an ambitious hybrid of dragon and werewolf. It also describes the register without flinching: dark, violent, and erotica built around a male-male story with a great deal of hot sex in it. That amounts to better orientation than the product page manages by itself.
Season one, episode one, series number one. Every part of the packaging says entry point, and the series field says something else entirely. It reads New Haven Series: The Odin Chronicles, two sequence names welded into one string, which is a metadata symptom of a real situation rather than a stray colon. This is a spin-off that begins where an earlier sequence finished, and the description assumes you already know who Marco is, who Theoden is, and why a debt owed to a dragon king counts as a plot. The publisher field holds the author's own name, so nobody upstream was positioned to catch any of it. Anyone arriving at what looks like a pilot should expect to land mid-story.
What Makes Come and Get Me: Season One, Episode One Worth Hearing
Villains are the reason this works, and the book hands them the microphone. Vex explaining that his chosen human will learn to heel and obey, or Kendrick counting the decade he waited before moving on the Odin Colony, are not presented as positions the story disapproves of. They are simply what those characters think, delivered in the first person and left standing. Donna, also at five stars, identifies that as the appeal, saying that whether you read a character as good or bad, the author puts you inside their head to see why, and crediting Nicholas Bella with raising his own bar every single time. The same response inventories what else is on offer: sexy vampires, dragons and wolves to love or to hate.
Explicit content read aloud is a different proposition from explicit content on a page, and this listing is one of the few in its category to say so outright. The copy carries a listener advisory: eighteen and older, content that may be sensitive, discretion advised. Matt Williams holds the credit for the whole four hours and forty-nine minutes, which includes those scenes and the four separate first-person voices the description lines up. Keeping Noel, Elijah, Vex and Kendrick apart is the structural demand the copy advertises, since each of the four is handed the word I and a completely different agenda.
Things to Know Before Starting Come and Get Me: Season One, Episode One
Tezze, at four stars, supplies the caveat and then undercuts it, which is honest of the review. That response finds more of a theme to this book than expected, judges the sexual escapades just too much, and then reports that the whole thing was so interesting that continuing into The Odin Chronicles became necessary anyway. Both halves deserve to be taken seriously. The erotic content is not a garnish here but a substantial share of the runtime, and a listener who finds the balance wrong will find it wrong for hours rather than minutes. The plot underneath, a colony under threat from a rival working a decade-long plan, is genuinely available to anyone who wants it.
All five signed responses were written between February 2017 and April 2019, while this recording was published in October 2021, with the newest of them already two and a half years old by then. They read as page verdicts too, discussing chapters, characters and which book to buy next, and the copy slips into the same register when it warns that fans re-read each book until their next fix, an odd promise to print on an audio listing. So the 4.3 average across 323 ratings belongs to the ebook era of this series, and the recording arrived into a reputation that had already finished forming.
Who Nicholas Bella Is Writing For
Come to this for paranormal romance with the safety rails taken off. It suits listeners who already read Nicholas Bella, who like dragons and werewolves treated as political factions rather than as metaphors, and who prefer a series long, interconnected and entirely unembarrassed. Four hours and forty-nine minutes is short by the standards of the genre, which makes it a manageable test of whether the world suits you, as long as you accept that the test runs from the middle of a much larger story.
Stay away if you need a clean starting point, because the packaging promises one and the book declines to provide it. Stay away as well if graphic sex, on-page violence and a character whose stated ambition is ownership of another person are dealbreakers, since that advisory is not decorative. And read the three-star closely before deciding. That response from April 2019 scores the book across a dozen named categories and arrives at a total of 3.3 out of 5, which the storefront then displays as a flat three, with character development and chemistry both marked two out of five. If those are the elements you care about most, it is the most precise warning anywhere on this page.
Before You Listen
Does the Come and Get Me audiobook stand alone as an episode one?
Not really. Despite the label, a five-star from September 2017 discusses Theoden, Josef, Dante, Deacon, Elijah and Evander's dragons as established figures and predicts how their alliances will resolve, which is how people talk about a story they have followed for a while. Treat it as a spin-off, not a beginning.
How graphic is the sex in this audiobook?
The listing sets its floor at eighteen and older and advises discretion, and the copy frames one character's intentions in terms of ownership and obedience. Nothing on the page rates the heat more precisely than that, so plan for explicit scenes throughout rather than occasional ones.
How many episodes are there in Season One?
The page never says. The title announces a season and an episode, the series field reads New Haven Series: The Odin Chronicles with the number one attached, and no episode count, running order or release schedule appears anywhere. Four hours and forty-nine minutes is the whole of what you get.
