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Bestselling Bastard

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Bestselling Bastard

By: Nicole Rodrigues, Hero Club
Narrated by: Wen Ross, Lauren Sweet
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The king and queen of romance - Jenna Watson and Lorenzo Morgan. The "dirty duo" that makes you swoon, gets you hot, and then melts your heart with the happily ever after.

Two newbie authors, one sketchy Instagram DM, a few phone calls, a drunken live video plotting out our next best seller, and then boom!

Trending and on the radar of every publishing company in the industry, we make it - together. A best-seller list, two literary agents, and we're cruising by for the next year...until we don't.

Writer's block hits and Lorenzo and I are forced to finally spend a whole weekend alone together, face to face, retreating to a cabin in the woods all weekend to bang out our next big hit. I don't think our agents wanted us to bang out each other, but that's what happens. Over and over again on every damn inch of that cabin. Turns out those sexy scenes that Lorenzo writes have nothing on his real moves.

One weekend and then we'll go back to being work partners, except nothing is the same. It'll never be the same.

©2020 Nicole Rodrigues and Cocky Hero Club, Inc. (P)2020 Audible, Inc. Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance
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Oh this book wow just wow. Amazing pure perfection. So sweet and sexy, a must read and a great addition to the cocky hero world.

perfection

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I loved the origin story (Graham and Soraya) and I was excited to realize that Lorenzo is their son. And a romance author to boot! Jenna, also a romance author, and he have a meet-cute, decide to partner on a romance and then things get complicated. Jenna has major baggage, Lorenzo, having seen the ultimate in love stories, tries to get past her walls. I have to admit that I had trouble with the audiobook, which is how I experienced this story...Wen Ross is usually amazing but he used some over the top accents, especially for his female characters that took me out of the story. I give the story 3.5 stars, along with the narration by Wen Ross and Lauren Sweet, who did a fine job.

Good addition to the hero club

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Loved it !! this story. the narrator is so fantastic it's like your really there!! good overall

very good

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Four things making this a very okay listen:
1) Given that Lorenzo is 27, I was disappointed at the amount of drinking and F bombs (and not wicked F bombs during dirty talk or dropped for the right Samuel.L.Jackson effect, but casual F bombs during mundane conversations … constantly). This felt very barely 21 and bar hopping shallow.
Perhaps because they both came off as so juvenile, the sex was just sex and I didn’t feel the chemistry. Or, maybe it was the amount of sex. Way more sex than romance.

2) The angst is very one sided, with major abandonment issues falling on Jenna. I get it: loss can hit you hard. But smart people can separate past events from current situations and I wasn’t feeling Jenna’s dogged avoidance of connection. I was also very repelled by her sex shaming him when she snarked
“I think that the first guy I gave a hand job to in tenth grade lasted longer than that.”
So, yeah, not a girl to root for.

3) For a book whose hook is two authors getting together to write fresh romance, this book has a lot of stale romance tropes. The part where he’s jealous when a man looks at her with appreciation in public. She’s sick and they don’t realize what it means, but then of course it’s what every romance reader knows, and it brings them together.

4) The narrators were patchy on his NY (Jersey? Or Italian?) accent and her Tennessee twang. Especially after the first hour, the accents would come and go and also sound different. Which was odd considering I enjoyed the accents for Lorenzo’s parents, who were by far the best characters in this book.

There’s a difference between dirty and crass

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