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Funny

Reviewed: 11-25-19 Listener received this title free

A quick, funny, holiday story starring Christopher Miller, a pastry chef, and Robin Summers, the owner of Fred, a chocolate lab. The book is told in third person from Chris and Robin's pov.

An accidental meeting brings Chris and Robin into contact again after a one-night stand they had many months ago. The meeting also destroys the special cupcakes Chris created for a movie star Chris idolized. Things heat up again as Robin offers to help Chris remake the cupcakes.

I enjoyed the humor of this short fic. The narrator did a good job with the accents, it was easy to tell the characters apart. However, he spoke a little too fast so I had to lower the audio speed.

As to the writing, I noticed instances of head hopping that weren't proceeded by long enough pauses to indicate that the pov was switching. If I was reading the book instead, I'm guessing there weren't any separators or warnings of pov changes, so this would be a head-hopping flaw. I noticed the author tended to use the descriptors, 'older man' and 'younger man', quite often, which I wasn't a fan of. Finally, I picked up the incorrect use of the name, Robin instead of Chris, at the end of the book.

Overall, the humor was good, but the head-hopping was noticeable. The narrator spoke a bit too fast. Still this was a fun story to listen to for the holidays.

I give this an overall rating of 3.5 stars.

I received a free copy of 'Fred and Ginger' from the author for an honest and unbiased review.

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Good addition to the series

Reviewed: 01-29-18

Would you consider the audio edition of When the Bough Breaks to be better than the print version?

I haven't read the book yet, but I plan to.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

I would have liked Sawyer to be less insecure, I feel like his insecurity was exaggerated and it made him more of a caricature. Most of the time the narrator's voices for the characters was distinctive, except towards the end of the book during the last couple chapters when Chad sometimes sounded too similar to AJ's voice.

Have you listened to any of Tim Todd’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I haven't listened to any of this narrator's books before so I wouldn't be able to compare this reading to others.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes, I would've liked to have listened to this book in one sitting, but that wasn't possible.

Any additional comments?

This is the first audio book I've reviewed and it took me a little time to adapt to listening instead of reading, but I enjoyed it. 'When the Bough Breaks' is a good addition to the 'Mile High Romance' series. I also intend to read this book once I catch up with the other books in the series.

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