2.5⭐ 😬😬

Look, here's the rub.....When you read a book by Ali Hazelwood you know what you are going to get!

You are going to get a super clever woman/girl in STEM, who isn't like other girls, and you are going to get a *super* tall (oh my god he is always sooooo tall) man/boy who has a rock hard chest (which she will ultimately walk into while not looking where she is going) a lot of banter, a lot of "his chislled jaw, his green/blue eyes" etc etc..

You will get either enemies to lovers or insta love, it is the same playbook time after time, and guess what?? I EAT THAT SHIT UPPPP!!!!!

But this one....... I just....didn't 🤷

The book has all of the tropes above...ALL OF THEM...but for some reason the 2 MC's just didn't do it for me at all, i just didn't believe them

The fact that on PAGE ONE of the story we stumble onto an argument between a bf/gf, and then randomly discussing the kinks of said bf with the gf without him being there and giving consent to this is.......yeahhh i felt uncomfortable with it.

And then, after it turns out that our MC loves a bit of kink (WHAT are the chances!!) the gf dumps her bf (while still being best friends with him), sets up our FMC with said bf by getting drunk and spouting out loud that SCARLETT IS A KINKY BITCH TOO, YOU SHOULD FCK EACH OTHER!

Note that they have been together for YEARS by this point (7yrs to be precise), and she is *totally fine* with her new BFF scarlett fcking her (ex) bf because she wants to fck other people too, and incidentally she's got a date, and ughhhhhhh

I don't know, i can usually go with the story as it's popcorn romance, a quicky, if you will.
I usually read them as a pallette cleanser between my Thriller/Horror books, so I enjoy my time with them, but unfortunately not this time.

Which leads me to the narration of the audiobook........

Now I will not HEAR any slander about the amazing Therese Plummer, she is a goddess amongst narrators, and you should bow down to her heavenly feet, and honestly i thought i'd hit jackpot with the male narrator Ben Holtzmuller too (nice voice and also veeeery pretty 😏), he has a lilt of Jacob Morgan about him, and as I knew this one was going to be spicy I was rubbing my grabby hands ready......BUT.......

I think the fact that Lukas, our MC is Swedish, and no dis to my lovely Swedish followers (I love you) but the accent the narrator used just didn't sit right with me, and it didn't seem to gel right, and i think it may have added to the lack of chemistry there, I don't know.

The kink........is just.......lets just say if you are looking for a book with kink in it, this would not be the one that i would recommend to you, unless you like a poor 50 shades.