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My Review:Title: Loverboy
Author: Sarina Bowen
Series: The Company #2
Published by: Indie
Release Date: December 1, 2020
Format: Audio ALC
Narrator: Joe Arden, Vanessa Edwin, Emma Wilder
Length: 9 hours and 11 minutes
Genres: Romantic Suspense, Contemporary, Romance
Source: the author
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2020 Audiobook Challenge, Lenoreo's 2020 New Release Challenge, Lenoreo's COYER Quarantine Edition
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My rating:
Blurb:Secrets, desires, and exquisite pie. It’s all in a day’s work at The Company.
Growing up, I was the rough guy from the wrong neighborhood who couldn’t catch a break. Posy was the pampered girl I tried to impress. But all she gave me was a single kiss before I had to skip town.
Now I’m back, and the tables are turned. Posy runs a struggling pie shop. I’m the VP of a secretive billion-dollar security company.
Not that I can tell her.
There’s a murderer on the loose in New York, and he seems to spend a lot of time at Posy’s shop. It’s my job to identify him before he can harm a hair on her pretty head.
Going undercover as Posy’s new barista wasn’t my idea. I don’t even drink coffee. But now I have to call her “boss,” and do everything the curvy perfectionist asks of me. I’d forgotten how much we infuriate each other, and that she somehow fills me with both irritation and desire in the same breath.
There’s nobody more skilled at stealth ops than me. I can bring this killer down. Right after I take a cold shower. And just as soon I figure out how to make a skinny peppermint latte with milk poured in the shape of a kitten...
I received a free copy through the author in exchange for an honest and unbiased review/opinion.
4.5 stars — I got sweet, sexy, playful, intense, and drooling over both food and Gunnar. 😉
It was my first time listening to Vanessa Edwin, and she was a lot of fun. I loved the way she narrated her “hormones”, and I have a feeling I enjoyed it more listening to her than if I had read it. She had a lot of emotion, some great sass, and her voices were fantastic. Loved her Gunnar voice. Joe Arden was fantastic as always — great voices, lots of emotion, very sexy. I kept waiting for Emma Wilder’s little feature, and I enjoyed her as well — my first time, but looking forward to hearing more…especially if it means her character gets a book soon (hint hint).
I totally didn’t see some elements of the suspense aspect coming — I honestly had ZERO theories, and the reality wouldn’t have been one of them. I enjoyed all the little side aspects in the story as well, it was hard to figure out what was connected to what and it kept me on my toes. At the same time it wasn’t as big an element of the story as I’d been expecting, though that’s not a complaint just an observation.
I’m not sure I remember Gunnar enough from the previous book to have any expectations, but he was adorable and sexy. I loved his swagger and charm, even if he put up blinders in his life on occasion. But in the end I loved following his journey towards love, it was super rewarding.
And Posy was kind of adorable in her own right. I loved how even though it took her awhile to seek out what *she* truly wanted instead of trying to seek the approval of other people in her life, when she decided to go for it she put in her all. I truly admired her drive and passion for her pie shop. I also really fucking want some of those pies. Like, hello recipe book? I appreciated that she didn’t really play games, but that she tried to have reasonable expectations. I don’t know, I just really loved her.
And the two of them together were both fun and fire. I loved their banter, and I loved their steamy chemistry. I loved that they could be both playful and emotional. I definitely felt their connection.
As always there were some pretty great secondary characters. Jerry and Aaron were both adorable. I can’t help but wonder if Ginny has a book coming. And the Company folks are always spectacular.
It was everything I’ve come to expect in a book from Ms. Bowen, she never lets me down.
You totally nailed this review! I agreed with it. I didn’t listen, but read this one. You have me wishing I would have listened to it. Maybe someday I’ll do a reread that way.