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Another Billionaire Romance 🙄

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1 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-09-25

My issue with this book is more about the contemporary romance genre in general rather than this particular book. Although it’s equally bad! The same formulaic storyline and tropes…
Most aggravating is the implausibility of these stories in addition to the lack of understanding of just how wealthy a billionaire is. There is a scene in the story where Mr. Sin has to visit Sasha because of a medical issue. I get that it was to force proximity and move the story forward but it’s so implausible. Billionaires have an entire medical team on call 24/7 so this would never happen! This is just one example but it happens over and over in the book, it’s annoying. Just call him a millionaire or just wealthy then the scenes having a fighting chance.

To illustrate, if you were given $1000 every day, you’d have to wait 2 years 8 months to get $1m. To get to $1bn you’d have to wait 2740 years!

It’s not just a little more — it’s a massive difference. I hope this helps.

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Age gap romance 🤮

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1 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 07-25-24

Age gap romances give me the ick! 30 something billionaire playboy meets 20 year old virgin is not my cup of tea. Couldn’t finish.

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Save your 14 hours, you’ll thank me later

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2 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 01-26-24

The problem with this story is that all the characters were just really shitty. There was no one to root for! Dylan was a sleazy prick. His family is in crisis as a consequence of his actions and he chooses that time to screw around on his wife. He “just couldn’t help himself” 🤮
Sheila is a fragile victim, as most women who are married to narcissists tend to be. She refuses therapy to deal with her past and just drinks and pops pills to cope instead. So cliche 🙄
The kids are stereotypes too, bratty princess, nerd, jock.
As a family, they’re collectively clueless. A series of freak accidents happen back to back and everyone just shrugs them off. Skip this one I promise you will thank me.

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Author & Narrator Match Made in Heaven!!

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 10-27-23

This series is one of my favorite so far. The pairing of Lance McMillian and Christopher Lane is what has been missing from my Audible queue and I am so glad I found them! Chance is human and real, flawed but still such a great litigator. The dialogue is hilarious and captures the south in such a great way. Good read, thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Highly Recommend!

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 10-24-23

The story and narrator were great!! The write took his time weaving together a great story that I completely lost myself in. Then the narrator!! I ordered Book 2 before I even finished this one because I enjoyed his cadence and different voices so very much. Great job all around.

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Loose ends

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2 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 10-10-23

Some meaningless subplots were added in and then never explored or properly fleshed out. Maybe there was a word count the author needed to hit so they just added fluff. Either way they were just dangling loose threads which were added for no apparent reason.
The narrator does a decent male voice and an aggravating whiney female voice which is hard to listen to.
The characters were one dimensional villain or victim with no redeeming qualities which made it hard to root for them. Much as I tried I simply couldn’t care what happened to any of them. The plot twist is so contrived it added to my frustration with the whole book. Unless it’s free I would skip this one.

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Excruciatingly Painful 😖

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1 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
Story
2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 09-12-23

There are so many issues with this book don’t know where to start. First I dislocated something in my eye from rolling them too much. The caveman thing Sawyer has going on, all while a great communicator who is also a f**k boy who is trying to ease his pain from 9 years ago by sleeping with anything that moves. As long as they’re not curvy because… Completely implausible

Then there is the female narrator with the breathy Valley girl thing she probably thinks is sexy 🙄
Then the character herself Rae is obnoxious and needs therapy. Lots of people had shitty things happen to them and they don’t turnaround and be shitty people as well. Weird part is she’s older than the dude but annoyingly immature.

The story itself just goes on forever with no real point. Skip this one, you will thank me later.

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Imaginary problems in middle class America

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2 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-10-23

There are so many annoying things about this book, I don’t know where to start. These women have such cushy lives that they need imaginary problems and crises to gripe about. Two parents who played favorites with their kids, two polar opposite sisters 1 high achieving with a seemingly perfect life. The other barely making an effort and yet somehow everything is just working out for her.

Caro, Barb’s best friend was my favorite character in the whole book. Would’ve loved to see more of her. There’s one scene which made me coin the moniker Gangsta Grannies!! Overall this was just ok, mindless listen can’t complain too much because it was free with my plus membership.

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Brooke is extremely annoying! 😤

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2 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-03-23

I cannot fathom how someone who has had so many close calls with a stalker always insists on being on her own just so she can get kidnapped or harmed in someway ALL THE DAMN TIME!!! She is constantly doing dumb stuff that is supposedly because she is smart and strong but just lands her in scenarios where she needs to be rescued. I listened from book 1 and never got over the similarity to JD Robb’s characters Eve and Roarke. Anywho! If you haven’t read the “In Death” series the similarities will not be an issue for you and this series will be an okay listen.

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Too stupid to survive

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1 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 04-30-23

This is the second book in the series and Brooke hasn’t learnt anything from book 1 . She’s still reckless and cocky and puts herself in danger for very little payoff then she just gets lucky and escapes. No indication of any actual skill/ training consistent with her being “the best agent” aside from being the Director’s daughter.

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