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Written by: Christina Lauren
Narrated by: K.C. Sheridan
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From subway to Broadway to happily ever after. Love in all its thrill, hilarity, and uncertainty has never been so compulsively readable as in this “fresh, modern” (Entertainment Weekly) romance from the New York Times bestselling authors of The Unhoneymooners and Love and Other Words.

Marriages of convenience are so...inconvenient.

For months Holland Bakker has invented excuses to descend into the subway station near her apartment, drawn to the captivating music performed by her street musician crush. Lacking the nerve to actually talk to the gorgeous stranger, fate steps in one night in the form of a drunken attacker. Calvin Mcloughlin rescues her, but quickly disappears when the police start asking questions.

Using the only resource she has to pay the brilliant musician back, Holland gets Calvin an audition with her uncle, Broadway’s hottest musical director. When the tryout goes better than even Holland could have imagined, Calvin is set for a great entry into Broadway—until his reason for disappearing earlier becomes clear: he’s in the country illegally, his student visa having expired years ago.

Seeing that her uncle needs Calvin as much as Calvin needs him, a wild idea takes hold of her. Impulsively, she marries the Irishman, her infatuation a secret only to him. As their relationship evolves and Calvin becomes the darling of Broadway—in the middle of the theatrics and the acting-not-acting—will Holland and Calvin to realize that they both stopped pretending a long time ago? Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Literature & Fiction Romance Romantic Comedy Women's Fiction Comedy Celebrity Theatre
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This book was a nice easy listen with a few unexpected twists that had me needing to know what happened next. Overall I think it’s a great story with amazing characters! But I mean what else do you expect from Christina Lauren... K.C. Sheridan’s accent was brilliant and made the story really come to life!

Delightful!

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While one of the main characters is Irish, the main protagonist and main POV are both American, and unfortunately KC Sheridan is clearly Irish. This made the entire narration confusing, as I often wasn’t sure which character was meant to be speaking. It also took something away from the story, as Holland (the female protagonist) sounded like a young Dubliner instead of a New Yorker.

The narrator has not mastered an American accent

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If you’re looking for something light with a lot of romance you’ll likely enjoy this. I had trouble getting through it at the end as there were so many plot points that didn’t add up. The character development was lacking for the MC and especially the love interest - I felt I couldn’t fall in love with the characters because I didn’t feel I even knew them. The best part was the audio performance as she voices both an English accent and Irish accent flawlessly which helps to put some life into the characters.

Easy flirty romance, not a lot of substance

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I really tried to listen to the novel but the narrator has a weird inflection in the middle of her sentences that really throws you off when you’re trying to get into the novel. I’m a big fan of Christina Lauren but I just wish that they had picked someone that didn’t have an annoying voice.

Awful narrator. Annoying.

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