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Not in Love
- Von: Ali Hazelwood
- Gesprochen von: Callie Dalton, Jason Clarke
- Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 55 Min.
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Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down.
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All of the above
- Von Manfred Am hilfreichsten 29.09.2024
- Not in Love
- Von: Ali Hazelwood
- Gesprochen von: Callie Dalton, Jason Clarke
What is the male narrator even doing???
Rezensiert am: 01.08.2024
I had already read the book and therefore know the plot. That’s what’s driven me to the decision to stop pushing through this audiobook.
The male narrator seems to constantly repress his actual voice, aiming for “the smouldering hot guy voice”, whatever that may be.
The worst thing is that the female narrator is -in this production- interrupted whenever she talks to him: in Rue’s chapters, the main narrator is female but Eli’s parts of the conversation are read by the male narrator and vice versa.
The sound quality of the two recordings sounds off, thus, the whole dialogue is butchered into oblivion.
Combined with the narrator’s ridiculous, smouldering car crash of a reading voice, this was unlistenable for me.
If I am not mistaken, the same narrator reads the bonus chapter in one of Hazelwood’s earlier books. Same problem there: His pressed “I am Batman”-voice and the dialect sound cheap and uneducated. Not at all like the character who is a university professor.
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The Cosy Cottage in Ireland
- Von: Julie Caplin
- Gesprochen von: Victoria Fox
- Spieldauer: 9 Std. und 36 Min.
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Talented lawyer Hannah Campbell is after a change in her workaholic Manchester life - so on an uncharacteristic whim, she books herself a place at the world-renowned Killorgally Cookery School in County Kerry. But on her first night In Ireland, sampling the delights of Dublin, Hannah can’t resist falling for the charms of handsome stranger Conor. It’s only when Hannah arrives at her postcard-pretty home at Killorgally for the next six weeks that she discovers what happens in Dublin doesn’t quite stay in Dublin....
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Beautiful setting all around…
- Von Spring Am hilfreichsten 07.02.2024
- The Cosy Cottage in Ireland
- Von: Julie Caplin
- Gesprochen von: Victoria Fox
Beautiful setting all around…
Rezensiert am: 07.02.2024
…and the typical Caplin-esque quirkiness to the endearing characters.
Beautiful narration with the accents, too.
Full immersion, through and through.
The wanderlust kicking in once more.
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The Little Café in Copenhagen
- Romantic Escapes, Book 1
- Von: Julie Caplin
- Gesprochen von: Imogen Wilde
- Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 46 Min.
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Publicist Kate Sinclair’s life in London is everything she thought she wanted: success, glamour and a charming boyfriend. Until that boyfriend goes behind her back and snatches a much sought-after promotion from her. Heartbroken and questioning everything, Kate needs to escape. From candles and cosy nights in to romantic late-night walks through the beautiful cobbled streets of Copenhagen, Kate discovers how to live life ‘the Danish way’. Can the secrets of hygge and happiness lead her to her own happily ever after?
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Süße Geschichte
- Von Muttimeckert Am hilfreichsten 10.03.2024
- The Little Café in Copenhagen
- Romantic Escapes, Book 1
- Von: Julie Caplin
- Gesprochen von: Imogen Wilde
Danish hygge at its best
Rezensiert am: 01.02.2024
Wonderful deep dive into the Danish way of hygge. The characters were refreshing and dear, the narrator has a nice voice that’s warm and a bit husky.
Only the men‘s voices needed a bit of getting used to -at times, they rather sounded like pompous bullfrogs to me.
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The Northern Lights Lodge
- Romantic Escapes, Book 4
- Von: Julie Caplin
- Gesprochen von: Eilidh Beaton
- Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 48 Min.
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With a shattered heart and her career completely in tatters, Lucy needs to get away from her life in the UK. But, when she takes a job as hotel manager of the Northern Lights Lodge, she doesn’t quite expect to find herself in a land of bubbling hot springs and snowflake-dusted glaciers - and in the company of gorgeous Scottish barman Alex. Determined to turn her life around, Lucy sets about making the lodge the number one romantic destination in Iceland - even though romance is the last thing she wants.
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Für oder gegen Fernweh – beides!
- Von Twin Mom Am hilfreichsten 11.03.2024
- The Northern Lights Lodge
- Romantic Escapes, Book 4
- Von: Julie Caplin
- Gesprochen von: Eilidh Beaton
Endearing characters, beautiful setting, great narrator
Rezensiert am: 21.01.2024
This book made me want to visit Iceland even more than I already did before.
The descriptions of the landscape and weather are lovely and detailed.
You also grow very fond of all the quirky characters and their shared wholesome moments.
The building relationship(s) and their intimate moments are also nicely written.
It surely was a “page turner” for me. The story had just the right amount of drama, too. Not overly torturously suspense-packed but keeping you hooked all the same.
There were also very funny moments along the way. I laughed out loud when the sheep bobbed about in the whirlpool.
Only the ending felt a bit off to me but that might be a question of taste…
!! Mild spoiler following !!
Spending so much time at that lovely lodge, I didn’t enjoy the change of location which felt abrupt and slightly halfhearted.
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Love, Theoretically
- Von: Ali Hazelwood
- Gesprochen von: Thérèse Plummer
- Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 33 Min.
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The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs. Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig—until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down.
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Great romantic story without the usual storyline
- Von Anonymer Hörer Am hilfreichsten 02.07.2023
- Love, Theoretically
- Von: Ali Hazelwood
- Gesprochen von: Thérèse Plummer
Lively narration
Rezensiert am: 11.01.2024
While I perceived the story to be a bit constructed, I enjoyed the overall experience.
Ali Hazelwood stayed true to form even though I needed some time to become invested in the plot.
The narrator bugged me a bit, at first: She sounded singsang-y to me, like some of those cliché poetry slammers do. It’s a question of taste, supposedly. But along the line, her narration grew on me. Especially the different voices were acted out nicely.
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Really Good, Actually
- Von: Monica Heisey
- Gesprochen von: Julia Whelan
- Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 13 Min.
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Maggie’s marriage has ended just 608 days after it started, but she’s fine—she’s doing really good, actually. Sure, she’s alone for the first time in her life, can’t afford her rent and her obscure PhD is going nowhere...but at the age of twenty-nine, Maggie is determined to embrace her new status as a Surprisingly Young Divorcée™. Soon she’s taking up ‘sadness hobbies’ and getting back out there, sex-wise, oversharing in the group chat and drinking with her high-intensity new divorced friend Amy.
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Amusing and a clever, witty take on use or 'overuse' of apps / social media to get through a break up.
- Von Janet ann allport Am hilfreichsten 12.08.2024
- Really Good, Actually
- Von: Monica Heisey
- Gesprochen von: Julia Whelan
Really Annoying, Actually
Rezensiert am: 10.08.2023
The author displays a great ability to build characters and writes them well. They are deep and authentic.
My problem with this book was simply that I found the main character
UNBEARABLE.
It is really hard to stick around if you don’t like the lead, but I managed. The last hour of the book had some redeeming sort of outlook. The way to get there however… wow. So annoying!
That constant stream of consciousness, walking in circles, nay, spirals!
I get it, the main character is going through tough stages of grief and loss. She’s struggling with finding her way back to being a functioning member of society after her unspectacular separation from her husband. But does it really need to take up 95% of the book to describe every recursive, self-centred, oh-so-quirky thought of hers??
Even though Julia Whelan performs in her usual awesome way, her full, lush, luxurious voice and intonation cannot make up for this odyssey. I love listening to her audio books but with this book, there were just too many instances where I wanted to yell: “just shut up already”.
At times, I thought that this book was more intended as a guide for people struggling with divorce. Like it was saying “Hang in there, others are not getting better either”. Not being in this particular situation at the moment, I could hardly take anything away from this audio experience even though I usually enjoy different stories and points of view.
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The Hating Game
- Von: Sally Thorne
- Gesprochen von: Katie Schorr
- Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 29 Min.
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Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman sit across from each other every day...and they hate each other. Not dislike. Not begrudgingly tolerate. Hate. Lucy can't understand Joshua's joyless, uptight approach to his job and refusal to smile. Joshua is clearly baffled by Lucy's overly bright clothes, quirkiness, and desire to be liked. Now they're up for the same promotion, and Lucy, usually a determined people pleaser, has had enough: it's time to take him down. But as the tension between Lucy and Joshua reaches its boiling point, it's clear that the real battle has only just begun....
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Really tried but was disappointed
- Von Anonymer Hörer Am hilfreichsten 07.12.2021
- The Hating Game
- Von: Sally Thorne
- Gesprochen von: Katie Schorr
If you’re searching for light romantic entertainment…
Rezensiert am: 23.05.2023
…then this is your book.
It follows the hate to love routine.
It is not really deep or has a surprising plot twist that couldn’t be guessed in advance. But it’s sweet and steamy and just what you need sometimes: Not too much drama, ridiculously polar opposites that attract (tiny quirky sweet woman, burly Clark Kent guy with brains…) and a good old “first they hate each other but it’s obvious they love each other”-storyline.
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The Happy Ever After Playlist
- Von: Abby Jimenez
- Gesprochen von: Erin Mallon, Zachary Webber
- Spieldauer: 9 Std. und 17 Min.
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Two years after losing her fiancé, Sloan Monroe still can't seem to get her life back on track. But one trouble-making pup with a 'take me home' look in his eyes is about to change everything. With her new pet by her side, Sloan finally starts to feel more like herself. Then, after weeks of unanswered texts, Tucker's owner reaches out. He's a musician on tour in Australia. And bottom line: he wants Tucker back. Well, Sloan's not about to give up her dog without a fight. As their flirty texts turn into long calls, Sloan can't deny a connection.
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TOO MUCH miscommunication
- Von C. Am hilfreichsten 12.05.2024
- The Happy Ever After Playlist
- Von: Abby Jimenez
- Gesprochen von: Erin Mallon, Zachary Webber
First listen to Friend Zone then listen to this
Rezensiert am: 31.12.2022
This is a heartwarming story with lovely characters and real struggles.
I listened to The Friend Zone first without knowing that the story is continued in this book. I would suggest to anyone who’s interested in listening to The Happy Ever After Playlist to do the same.
The readers are great, too.
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AWK-WEIRD
- A Hot Hockey Romantic Comedy
- Von: Avery Flynn
- Gesprochen von: Tim Paige, Kelsey Navarro Foster
- Spieldauer: 7 Std. und 49 Min.
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One night and my life completely jumped the tracks. Actually, a pack of expired condoms did that - the rest of the night was pretty amazing. Open bar at a friend's wedding. Bad dancing all around. Stupid trivia bets with my fellow Ice Knights hockey teammates. And Tess Gardner. The factoid-blurting, fandom-T-shirt-wearing, no-I-don’t-want-a-relationship-with-you woman makes me forget for one night that I’m a man with a routine and my future all mapped out. Still, it sucked she left our room without giving me her number.
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Refreshing
- Von C J Am hilfreichsten 20.09.2023
- AWK-WEIRD
- A Hot Hockey Romantic Comedy
- Von: Avery Flynn
- Gesprochen von: Tim Paige, Kelsey Navarro Foster
Clumsy wording, unnecessary plot detours
Rezensiert am: 21.12.2022
I don’t have a problem with foreseeable plots -they are part of the deal in this genre after all.
But this was a bit too much.
Also, I had the feeling that some of the plot was just there to fill pages; unsatisfying and foreseeable misunderstandings and so on.
While other books deal with questions of mental health and self improvement, the childhood trauma the protagonists have to deal with is represented in a very shallow way. The relationships in the story are not properly explored and thus feel hollow and superficial.
And oh my God, find other words than “purple paw prints“! Describing a situation using the same alliteration over and over and over again feels irritating and is just clumsy writing.
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Life's Too Short
- Von: Abby Jimenez
- Gesprochen von: Christine Lakin, Zachary Webber
- Spieldauer: 9 Std. und 6 Min.
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When Vanessa Price quit her job to pursue her dream of traveling the globe, she wasn't expecting to gain millions of YouTube followers who shared her joy of seizing every moment. Her mother and sister never saw the age of 30, and Vanessa doesn't want to take anything for granted. But after her half-sister suddenly leaves Vanessa in custody of her baby daughter, life goes from 'daily adventure' to 'hourly nappy change'. The last person Vanessa expects to show up offering help is the hot lawyer next door, Adrian Copeland. After all, she barely knows him.
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True to its title
- Von Spring Am hilfreichsten 16.12.2022
- Life's Too Short
- Von: Abby Jimenez
- Gesprochen von: Christine Lakin, Zachary Webber
True to its title
Rezensiert am: 16.12.2022
Well-written and touching. First, it’s cute and uplifting but gradually develops into a heart-wrenching story about life and treatment choices as a potentially fatal patient.
I came looking for a heart-warming love story which at first, I got. However I wasn’t expecting (or really wanted) all the existential crisis parts of the book.
That might be my fault for not researching properly what I was in for and I still enjoyed the story. It just wasn’t all warm and nice.
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