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Call Me Maybe

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Call Me Maybe

By: Cara Bastone
Narrated by: Luci Christian, Neil Hellegers
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True love is on the line in this charming, laugh-out-loud rom-com - created specifically for the audio format!

Paint your toes. Pick up the wrong coffee and bagel order. Drive from Brooklyn to Jersey in traffic so slow you want to tear your hair out. It’s amazing all the useless things I can accomplish while on hold for three hours with customer service. Three hours when I should be getting the Date-in-a-Box website ready to launch at the big business expo in a few days. Except my shiny new website is glitching, and my inner rage-monster is ready to scorch some earth...when he finally picks up. Not the robot voice I expected but a real live human named Kal. He’s surprisingly helpful and really knows his stuff, even if he’s a little awkward...in an adorable way.

And suddenly I’m flirting with him? And I think he’s flirting back.
And suddenly it’s been hours, and we’re still on the phone talking and ordering each other takeout while he troubleshoots my website.
And suddenly we’re exchanging numbers and sending texts and DMs every day, leaving voice mails (who even does that anymore?!).
And suddenly I’m wondering if it’s possible for two people to fall in love at first talk.

Because I’m falling...hard.

©2020 Cara Bastone (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC.
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Interview: 'Call Me Maybe' Embraces the Particular Joy of a Long-Distance Meet-Cute

'...In my mind, truly the most romantic thing is communication.'
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Audie Award nominee, Best Romance, 2021

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About the Creator

Cara Bastone is a full-time writer living and writing in Brooklyn with her husband, son, and an almost-goldendoodle. Her goal with her work is to find the swoon in ordinary love stories. She’s been a fan of the romance genre since she found a grocery bag filled with her grandmother’s old Harlequin Romances when she was in high school. She’s a fangirl for pretzel sticks, long walks through Prospect Park, and love stories featuring men who aren’t cripple by their own masculinity.

About the Perfomer

Neil Hellegers is an actor, Audie-nominated narrator, and educator who lives in Brooklyn with his wife, son, and mutt. On camera, Neil has appeared in film and on television, as seen on Blindspot, House of Cards, Madam Secretary, and others. His voice work can be heard in numerous commercials, video games (including Red Dead Redemption 2), and numerous audiobooks, including Dawn of the Exile by Mitchell Hogan, A Tangled Road to Justice by Olan Thorensen, Call Me Maybe by Cara Bastone, and 100 Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda for Audible Studios. On stage, he has performed Shakespeare with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Aquila Theatre Company, and others, both nationally and internationally. He also directs experimental Shakespeare-based devisings for the Hear Now Festival.

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Such a Fun Funny Happy Story

Perfect fun escapism. Romantic. Funny. Great characters. Wonderful performance. You should definitely download it now!

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Funny and Sweet loved it!

Loved this story!!!! Can we get Elliott's story he needs a girl and readers need more Vera and Kal...just saying.

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delightful

This was great fun and wonderfully distracting. It kept my mind off of other things for the duration.

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Excellent

A wonderfully, entertaining story to drive by, get ready for work by, do anything by.

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loved!!

Laughed so much during this book. I loved the story. the narrative was great. now I wanna find out what happens next!!!!

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WHERE IS MY SEQUEL?!?!

Omg. I loved this so so so much. I need to know what happens next! I think this is the first time I felt like happy crying during a book. I read a ton of romance books, but this is the cutest of the cute. I really enjoyed that the book wasn’t the typical “I met a hot guy and now we’re just going to bang a lot while an actual plot doesn’t really exist”. I’m not returning this book to the plus catalog. I’m keeping it in my library and for the first time, I feel certain that I’m going to listen to a book again. LOOOOOOOVED. ❤️

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Fun meet cute!

This is my first book by Cara Bastone in audiobook or print. I’m sold. I absolutely loved the meet cute in which the H and h meet. It was such a departure from 90% of all other rom coms! There’s some drama interspersed, plenty of sweet moments, fun comedic scenes and more than one plot twist. Not to mention the most awesome HEA. There is no cliff hanger (thank you, Cara!) but I would absolutely LOVE to hear more about Vera and Cal! We NEED more Vera and Cal!! And Elliott and Paloma! Well Cara, you just need to make this into a series...stat. Please? 🥰

I’m a fairly new audiophile but I’ve heard enough audiobooks over the last few months to make me question my Audible subscription. After listening to Luci Christian and Neil Hellergers, I have new hope!! These narrators knocked. It. Out. Of. The Park!! I love them. Now I’ll be actively looking for more books read by them. This book also had extra sound effects that added to the whole listening experience. Way to go editor(s)!!

All I all this is great book! I can’t wait to use my credits on more Cara Bastone’s books as I not so patiently wait for her next release. 😉

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Fun Story!

Nice, light and fun hearted book. Great feel good story. Love is in the air.

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This Book Was Everything!

This was a well written “feel good” book. This is the best way to describe a book at pulled every positive emotion from me. Well done!

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Super cute

Great performance and I enjoyed the banter between the two characters. The story is nothing special or surprising, but the dialogue was made for an audible and the performance keeps you engaged.

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