
I Hate, I Bake, and I Don’t Date!
The Manhattan Svenssons, Book 1
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Devon Grace
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Tim Paige
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By:
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Alina Jacobs
About this listen
Yeah, my billionaire boss did it to me in his office twice in one day.
I even screamed when it happened. The whole office heard me.
No, not that.
He fired me.
Yep.
Beck Svensson fired me right before rent was due and in the middle of a rainstorm. That’s why he’s at the top of my hate list, along with pickles, people who steal other people’s lunches out of the office fridge, and trying to fold a fitted sheet.
But you know what? It’s fine - totally fine. It’s freedom! I could do anything! I could start a bakery or farm the mushrooms growing in my soggy apartment carpet. Or I could just show up at the temp office at hate o’clock in the morning for a new assistant job.
I hope my new boss will be less of a buzzkill than the last.
Except guess who is waiting for me when I show up in the lobby of a swanky office building.
That’s right, Mr. Grumpy Boss himself.
Beck is appalled that I’m back in his life. Again.
I can tell he wants to fire me. Again.
Except now he has two little surprise sisters bouncing around him and no one to watch them except yours truly.
While I strongly dislike kids and actively hate my boss, I’m willing to abandon my principles for a big paycheck and a hefty expense account.
But when Beck needs me to pretend to be the love of his life to keep from losing his sisters, I’m not sure a big windfall is going to cut it.
After all, I bake, and I don’t date. Ever.
Besides, I hate Beck. No way am I pretending to be his girlfriend...but I love the little girls.
I also love the huge kitchen in Beck’s swanky penthouse that I claim as mine when I move in.
And I really love running my hands over his washboard abs and that thing he does with his tongue.
Wait! No! I hate it, totally absolutely hate it, right? Right?
This is a full-length enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy, complete with hot, snarly guys with hearts of gold, a heroine who you’ll want to be besties with, and a happily ever after better than a giant slice of chocolate cake! Though this is intended to be a stand-alone book, it does take place after the recently completed Svensson Brothers series.
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Too long, too crude, and unbelievable parts
- By Maria Wurtz on 01-17-25
By: Alina Jacobs
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Elf Against the Wall
- A Holiday Romantic Comedy
- By: Alina Jacobs
- Narrated by: Avery Reid, Tim Page
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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When you kiss your perfect boyfriend under the mistletoe...only for your cousin scream to the family that you stole her man, you realize that you will never again have a merry Christmas. In my defense, I didn’t know my boss—yup, boss. Buckle up because this is messy—was my cousin’s newly minted and totally lying fiancé. I thought he was the Nutcracker Prince come to finally show my family that I, too, was worthy of putting the star atop the Christmas tree.
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Drawn out and forced
- By Alicia Marcy on 12-08-24
By: Alina Jacobs
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Eating Her Christmas Cookies
- A Holiday Romantic Comedy (Frost Brothers, Book 1)
- By: Alina Jacobs
- Narrated by: Neva Navarre, Tim Paige
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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In my perfect world, it would always be winter and never Christmas. I despise the holiday. I hate carols, shopping, and pretending to be a perfect family. I walked away from my family, or rather, they walked away from me. My heart is like ice. See it creeping up the walls. Oh, wait, no, that’s royal icing.
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Cloying influencer’s wet dream
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 11-24-22
By: Alina Jacobs
Listener received this title free
I listened to the audiobook of this, and loved it! I think that hearing the voices gives you so much more as a reader. You really can feel the emotions. You connect much quicker to the characters as well. These narrators were top notch.
This book is the first in the series and can be read as a complete stand alone. You will get some fun little Easter eggs though if you have read some of the other series. If you haven't read the books you won't miss anything. But if you have the Easter eggs will give you quite a giggle.
hot billionaires with hot spice thrown in
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Boring
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What I didn't like is harder to explain and is (I'm sure) just an issue that I had and maybe not anyone else. Tess needed to have some major therapy (I feel) before even thinking about getting into a relationship. Holly and Maeve were supportive BUT I think they were TOO supportive. They seemed more like enablers. They constantly had her back and pushed her to do something and not just sit around waiting for something to happen. Holly and Maeve were also constantly encouraging her to eat or giving her food or talking about making food. This wouldn't be a big thing except that Tess has some SEVERE issues with food. She hides eating food (gets up and does it when people are asleep). She eats constantly and not in a little snack here and there but in the 3 plates of macaroni and cheese followed by a dozen cupcakes kind of eat. I have no idea how many times I was screaming at the book for her to stop putting food in her mouth. She gets drunk and buys stuff that she wanted when she was 13 but she can't afford it. She has a ton of debt that she is behind on and she can't even pay her portion of the rent on their cruddy apartment. The cruddy apartment is another thing - that much water should be reported to building management and if nothing is done there are further steps that can be taken (I'm sure!) no one should be living in a place where you have mushrooms growing out of your carpet and probably mold everywhere else.
Don't get me wrong, everyone has issues (and I know this isn't reality!) but it set me off. I really liked the story and the characters. The ending was great. I feel it would have been better without so much of the stuff I didn't like. I do recommend reading this book. Maybe you will like it more than I did. (I would have given this a 3.5 but you can't do half stars!)
Listening to the audiobook was very good. The narrators did a great job. I recommend listening to the audiobook.
Sometimes a fake relationship can become real.
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She has some serious issues
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First impressions I absolutely loved the book. The enemies to lover trope in my opinion is way to over done and is rarely a true enemies situation. This has the right amount of angst and anger that I think it was well done
Second, I think the banter back and forth between FMC and the MC was great. It kept me interested. The FMC and her friends are what originally had me thinking I was going to buy every single book the author has ever published. However the longer I read the less I felt that way. I can’t get my mind to wrap around the fact that the FMC is sooo broke she’s basically living in a building that should be condemned but is shoveling food into her mouth like she hasn’t eaten in weeks. Logically that just doesn’t work. I mean it was really over done. How is this women not severely obese. And from the cover of the book she’s not even a bigger women she’s portrayed as average build. By the end of the book I just kept rolling my eyes every time she stuffed her face with more food. I get the love of food and usually i love a quirky FMC, I do but it just seemed unrealistic. At least the MC and his gang of siblings have a ligament reasoning behind their way of eating. Any one who has ever had more that 2 siblings and a low income house hold could definitely relate to the feeling of needing to eat as much as you can as fast as you can.
Thirdly, the MC was the only one of his brothers that was remotely likable. I kept waiting to see some in-site to the other characters that would want me to buy their books but I never saw it. They are so “family oriented” but also felt that they couldn’t stand one another. Grant the oldest of this group was a complete D*ck and deserves ever bit of negativity I can think up and I don’t even know his story. Not a single one of them showed any emotion towards anybody except for a superiority complex and immaturity. I think the author did a bad job on selling me on her other couples and books.
Overall even though I ranted quite a bit in the review I did enjoy the book. I likes lots of aspects of the story but lots of it also missed the mark. I might give some of her other works a chance later on. I did finish listening to this book in a day so it clearly was an enjoyable story for the most part.
Decent Read
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Terrible female vocalist
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hard to finish
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Beck Svensson one of a crazy family.
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Enjoyable but rushed
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Great book!
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