
Eloise and the Grump Next Door
Oakley Island Romcoms, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Stephanie Rose
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Rock Engle
I’m not sure which is worse: the lawyer handling my grandmother’s estate or the attack pelican living on the screened-in porch. Just kidding—I’ll take the pelican any day.
After graduation, I thought I’d be off to grad school, doing research on my favorite poet. Instead, I’m renovating my late grandmother’s home and posting about the process on Instagram. Talk about a detour…
But here I am. Turning Gran’s beach house into a bed and breakfast; a process that would be a lot easier if I didn’t have to deal with the grumpy lawyer living next door. It doesn’t help that the night Jake and I met, I got a little tipsy, and he had to carry me back to my hotel.
But the longer I stay on Oakley Island, the more I feel a connection to my childhood and to my grandmother. This isn’t the life I dreamed of, but dreams can change. Especially when new dreams include a future with Jake. On the outside, he might be pricklier than a puffer fish, but I catch glimpses of a delicious, cinnamon roll center.
Did I mention the tattoos he hides underneath those crisp button-down shirts? Yowza.
When I’m suddenly presented with the academic opportunity of my dreams (former dreams?), my picturesque life on Oakley starts to unravel.
A part of me wants to stay. If only a certain tattooed grump didn’t seem so determined to send me away…
Eloise and The Grump Next Door is a grumpy sunshine, closed door romantic comedy. The Oakley Island Romcom series follows three very different sisters as they renovate the house they inherited and find love on the island along the way. Each book will have sizzling chemistry but no spice.
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Cute story, poor performance- forced.
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The storyline moved slowly and repeated the same thing.
Cute - more for a young adult
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cute and fun
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Narration was very stilted.
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Cute
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The narration was good, four stars. The story is a solid 3.5 stars based on the things mentioned above. It was good, just fell short on a few things. I rounded up to four because it’s better than a three-star story. If you need something cute that you don’t have to concentrate heavily on and you are okay with no spice (kissing and clean touching only), I think you should give this one a go.
Clean, age-gap romance with some cute moments
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The story of Eloise and Jake is an enemies to lovers and age gap tropes story. It takes place on Oakley Island where Eloise and her sisters inherit property that according to the will, they must update and convert to a B&B. Eloise is tagged to stay and get things underway, because her life is kind of on hold. She discovers that she is going to be overseen by the grump that lives next door. He's a hot grump, but a grump none the less.
This is just a hilarious story. I loved the pelican, but my favorite scene had to be the one in which Jake (the grump) rescues Eloise from the ocean. I'm sure the narration made this even better than the book!
So funny!
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This is the first book in a series set on Oakley Island. The books each feature a different sister. I will say this can be read as a, especially since it starts the series. The characters for the upcoming books are introduced in this story.
I have the ebook, but I personally do better listening to books. I thought the narration for this was good. I am a seasoned audiobook listener and often speed up the narration. I think I listened to this one on 1.3x because that's what Audible was set to from a previous book. I didn't feel that the voices were rushed at that speed and they didn't drag either.
This story has an age gap between the main characters. That isn't usually a trope that I'm drawn to and so in my mind I tend to ignore it. The female narrator had a voice inflection that seemed younger than the male narrator. I don't know if that was intentional or not, probably not since the same 2 read the next book, but I thought it helped me remember there was an age difference.
I listened to this book in one day since I was able to listen while working. I already have purchased the next book in the series to start tomorrow.
Close door contemporary romcom (kisses only)
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Great story and characters
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