- Performance: Caitlin Greer is credited for the whole thing, and every response on the page predates the recording.
- What it covers: a mate bond refused, second chances between warriors, a returning ensemble.
- Feel: warm reunion energy with a body count.
- Our call: a payoff volume for Relentless readers and an odd place for anybody else to begin.
Four reviews on this page were written in February 2018. The audiobook is dated April 10, 2018. So four of the five people whose opinions sit under this listing had finished the book roughly two months before this recording existed, which settles what they were responding to and what they could not possibly have been responding to. It is the single most useful fact available here, and you have to work it out yourself.
The Review
Karen Lynch wrote this as the sixth book of the Relentless series, which the series field confirms and which one reviewer states outright in the opening line of a five-star response. The title on the page is a single word. Nothing about Fated standing on its own warns a buyer that five previous volumes come first, and the description declines to mention them, which turns a series payoff into what looks like a standalone romance. Audible Studios appears as the publisher, and for a series this deep that usually means the recording followed the books rather than launching alongside them.
Christian Kent has carried labels before, in the copy's own list: warrior, protector, friend, lover. Mate is the one he never wanted. The only girl he ever loved was the one he could not have, so he left to protect her heart while keeping none of his own, and a lethal new foe now throws the two of them back together. Old feelings resurface. Reviewers call him Chris throughout and treat him as a long-standing favorite of theirs. The description never names the woman at the other end of it, calling her the girl and then the warrior, which is either coyness or spoiler management depending on how much credit you extend to marketing copy.
Caitlin Greer is the voice on the credit, and that is where the timing problem starts to bite. A romance built on ten hours and twenty-two minutes of two people circling each other lives or dies on delivery, and nobody in the response column heard a second of it. The February reviewers could not have. The fifth response arrived seven years later, in November 2025, and says only that the entire series is great and this one is the favorite.
What Makes Fated Worth Hearing
Relentless as a name gets handled loosely by everybody involved. The listing files this under Relentless and numbers it six. One reviewer calls the faction the Mohiri, another calls the romance Mori, and a third spells a returning character Sarah where a fourth writes Sara. On paper you see the spelling and move on. In audio these words are only ever heard, which is worth knowing before starting the sixth book of anything with invented nouns in it. A listener who has never seen the word written down has to guess at the spelling before they can even search for it.
February 13, 14, 16, and 18 of 2018 account for four of the five responses, and their vocabulary gives the game away. One calls it a great read. Another talks about reading the book and counts a phrase that recurred far too often for comfort. A third praises bonus material at the end. None of that is unreliable and none of it is worthless. It simply was not written about a recording, and no part of the page tells you so. Their dates cluster inside six days, and nothing about that clustering invalidates a word of it. What it means is that this recording has been on sale for years without collecting a single audio-specific reaction.
Two votes are recorded here, and the badge above them reads 4.7. Five written responses sit directly beneath that counter. Whatever produced the 4.7, two whole-star votes cannot have, since no rounding rule reaches that figure from two. The number is inherited, stale, or partial. Any of those explanations leaves it useless for the decision you are actually trying to make, which is whether ten hours of this will suit you.
The Caveats
Bonus material is the practical question nobody on the page answers. One reviewer calls an extra scene involving Sara and Nikolas an even better treat than the main story. Another says the bonus material at the end was fantastic. Whether either survives into this recording goes unmentioned in the description, and for a series reader that difference is often the whole purchase decision rather than a footnote to it. Extras are also exactly the sort of thing that quietly disappears in a change of format without anybody announcing the loss.
Upper YA due to some mature content is the publisher's own age note, and that single clause is asked to cover a very large amount of ground. The category field says teen and young adult. The leads are warriors with years of shared history, the violence involves a lethal new foe, and the heat level is left entirely to the phrase mature content. A parent buying for a teenager gets one clause to work with. Upper YA sitting inside a teen category is a common enough compromise, and it moves the whole burden of judgment onto the buyer rather than the label.
Sara and Jordan have been with the series since the first and second books respectively, one reviewer explains, and both turn up here in support of Chris. Nikolas appears as well. Not one of those names occurs in the description, which means the copy is selling a self-contained romance while the reviews describe a reunion. Both accounts are accurate. Only one of them prepares you for what actually comes out of the speakers.
The Right Listener for Fated
Series readers who have waited for Chris to get a book of his own are the obvious audience, and they are exactly the people leaving five-star responses. Anyone who enjoys paranormal romance with an established world, a mate bond, and a second-chance structure will find the shape immediately familiar. A newcomer starting here is not entirely lost either, since one veteran reviewer notes that the recap which irritated a long-time reader would genuinely help somebody arriving fresh.
Holding off is the right call if repetitive phrasing bothers you, since a reader who counted it on the page will have heard it multiplied aloud across ten hours. The same goes for anybody who wants a heat level specified before paying. Start with book one of Relentless if you have the time, because this volume was built for people who already know why Chris matters and what the Mohiri are supposed to be.
Why are four of the reviews dated before this audiobook was released?
Because they were written about an earlier edition. Four responses carry February 2018 dates while the recording is dated April 10, 2018, and their language runs to reading, pages, and bonus material at the end. Useful on the story itself, and silent on the performance by necessity.
Where does Fated sit in the Relentless series?
Sixth. The listing numbers it six and one reviewer opens by saying the same. The single-word title gives no hint of that, and the description never mentions earlier volumes, so anyone buying on the blurb alone should know that five books come before this one in the sequence.
Can this audiobook work as a starting point?
Partly. One reviewer, a veteran of the series, found it recapped more than expected, then observed that somebody starting here would find exactly that helpful. You would meet Sara, Jordan, and Nikolas without context, though the central romance is self-contained enough to follow on its own.
Does the audiobook include the bonus material reviewers mention?
The page never says. Two responses praise extras: an additional scene involving Sara and Nikolas, and bonus material at the end. Neither is named in the description of this recording, so a series reader hoping for them should confirm before buying rather than assume they carried across.
