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Pretend

A Neighbor from Hell Prequel

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Pretend

By: R.L. Mathewson
Narrated by: Fran Jewels
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There was nothing more painful than falling in love with your best friend.

From New York Times best-selling author R.L. Mathewson comes the prequel to the disturbingly funny romantic-comedy series Neighbor from Hell.

She couldn’t do this anymore.

After watching her best friend and the man whom she’d been in love with her entire life propose to another woman, Morgan decided that it was time to finally move on. She made plans, plans that Eric didn’t know about, and she planned to keep it that way, but unfortunately for her, one bet destroyed everything, leaving her with no choice but to be there for her best friend one last time.

He was done.

After catching his fiancée cheating on him, Eric Bradford was done wasting his time on women with whom he had absolutely no hope of falling in love. He just needed time, a chance to get away, and he just needed...her.

Determined to figure out how he kept screwing up his life, Eric asks Morgan for one more favor, one that would change everything and leave him with no choice but to do whatever it takes to stop the one woman who meant everything to him from finally walking away.

©2023 R.L. Mathewson (P)2023 Audible, Inc. Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance Romantic Comedy Comedy Funny
Engaging Characters • Realistic Relationships • Entertaining Humor • Emotional Storytelling • Enjoyable Series
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The humor and emotion of the story engaged me. can't wait to read or listen to others in the series. it was so entertaining.

very entertaining multiple chance at love

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I feel like it was dragged out just a bit but overall I loved the story.

Beautiful story!

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I love the fact that she is going back and writing stories that are before the series started. This is one of my all-time favorite series. It is so entertaining there’s comedy and romance. I have read so many romance books that they become predictable. So far the series is not predictable and I have reread them many times. I also read some of her other series and she covers such a variety of style of writing. I can’t wait to find more that she has written.
The reader of the story does a awesome job, and she is one of my favorite readers

The whole series is well worth the read

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I really loved this book. I think it was my favorite of the series. love trickery and satisfaction 💕 ❤️ 💓

💘💝❤️💙💚

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I truly truly fell in love with these two characters I love how the author made you feel that you were part of the journey I also love the fact that the author make these characters more realistic and not fantasy type of people job well done I would definitely read this book again and definitely recommend it I cannot wait to continue this series

Eric and Morgan

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Great author,book and series neighborhood from hell is a great series books to read if they lmake you laugh you’re really enjoyable

The Bradford curse

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By chapter 30 I listened at a 3.5x because it started to drag and became repetitive. I didn’t love the mfc because she was and interesting mixture of over dramatic and skittish. Overall it’s an okay story and I enjoyed it.

With that being said my 3star rating comes from a personal pet peeve. I never enjoy when they make sex seem like it’s so amazing that it excuses not having serious conversations. Especially when that conversation becomes the climax (which is written and resolved in 1 page)

*spoiler* The uncle said he would tell Eric that she was planning to move if Morgan didn’t and it’s immediately followed up with 5-6 chapters of her not telling him and always being distracted by sex. (Mind you up until this point, they never had sex) Then that is followed up with the 1 page of a climax —It was mostly annoying to me because every time he asked her a question she deflected (even during their honesty game she literally used all five skips)

3/5

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So much of this book was cringy. Not sure the author knows the difference between “adorable” and “ditsy” and the author used the same descriptive words over and over …how many times can a character “worry her bottom lip between her teeth”? Like 27 times in this book.

There were times in the book where things completely changed and I had to rewind to several times to see what happened only to discover there was no transition..one minute they were headed to a cruise and then they were in a cab headed home…sure he mentioned it being cancelled, but there needed to be more between that word and them in a cab connecting those dots.

Cringy

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I love the Bradford men & their neighbors they fall in love with. So far Eric & Morgan story is my fav. I love the friends who have loved each other since they meet storyline.
I’ve waited for this book to hit audio because I love the narrator. She does a great job bringing the characters to life. I can’t wait for the next Bradford to fall in love with the next pain in their ass neighbor.

Another Good One!!!

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I almost stopped listening a dozen times due to the constant use of the F-bomb. The story line was cute but got tired of the language. I hoped for a larger vocabulary. The narration was pleasant and had a good use of emotions.

over use of the F-bomb

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