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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
If this is how the series starts, I’m so excited to get to the other books!
The side characters were diverse and dynamic, and the main characters were so loveable! Even ice queen had my heart midway through.
This one is so many tropes all in one, but what stands out is the age gap, nursed back to health, and ice queen for sure. I didn’t know I liked the nursed back to health trope, but Emily Banting might have just sold me on it!
The side characters were diverse and dynamic, and the main characters were so loveable! Even ice queen had my heart midway through.
This one is so many tropes all in one, but what stands out is the age gap, nursed back to health, and ice queen for sure. I didn’t know I liked the nursed back to health trope, but Emily Banting might have just sold me on it!
Well. I didn’t love this one as much as many others seemed to. I liked it, but there were a few things holding me back from the love category. I listened to this one on audio, and I sort of wish a different narrator had been picked? Angela Dawe is fairly good with accents, and does a decent job, but (for me) it was a little distracting to have the narration and all the voices (since everyone in the book is someone from the UK) be dropping in and out of different accents. I sort of wish that a British narrator had been picked. That said, she’s a good performer (not actually among my favs, but reliably strong).
I’ll say upfront that I found all the Gertie stuff a little too much/it got on my nerves. I don’t find it endearing when people call intimate objects by name and then proceed to treat them like people. Especially cars. Maybe bc i just absolutely don’t care abt cars, idk, it got old for me fast.
In general, i wanted to like Sydney a bit more than I actually did. Like, yes, 100% Beatrice was a bit rude of an employer, but it was WILD to me that Sydney just burst into her bedroom, told her off abt how to behave around her own child, and was not seen as in the wrong for that? Similarly, (and I know a lot of this stemmed from her own issues with her dad) but the judgement on Beatrice’s reactions to her parents without knowing anything about them or her was also annoying to me. She was juuuuuuust on the cusp of too earnest/sunshine-y, for my personal tastes.
I did like Beatrice quite a bit, and I overall did enjoy their dynamic together, but I didn’t get much swoony or dreamy vibes from them in the way that some couples/stories really stick with you. I thought the pacing towards the end felt a little drawn out/off somehow, but it wasn’t enough to fully put me off to distract me. I’ll be checking out other books by the author, though, as I liked enough there to want more, and it’s the first audio that sucked me in in a while.
(I’ll admit, I’m in very much a reading slump at the moment, so that could be clouding my judgement slightly? But I don’t THINK so?).
I’ll say upfront that I found all the Gertie stuff a little too much/it got on my nerves. I don’t find it endearing when people call intimate objects by name and then proceed to treat them like people. Especially cars. Maybe bc i just absolutely don’t care abt cars, idk, it got old for me fast.
In general, i wanted to like Sydney a bit more than I actually did. Like, yes, 100% Beatrice was a bit rude of an employer, but it was WILD to me that Sydney just burst into her bedroom, told her off abt how to behave around her own child, and was not seen as in the wrong for that? Similarly, (and I know a lot of this stemmed from her own issues with her dad) but the judgement on Beatrice’s reactions to her parents without knowing anything about them or her was also annoying to me. She was juuuuuuust on the cusp of too earnest/sunshine-y, for my personal tastes.
I did like Beatrice quite a bit, and I overall did enjoy their dynamic together, but I didn’t get much swoony or dreamy vibes from them in the way that some couples/stories really stick with you. I thought the pacing towards the end felt a little drawn out/off somehow, but it wasn’t enough to fully put me off to distract me. I’ll be checking out other books by the author, though, as I liked enough there to want more, and it’s the first audio that sucked me in in a while.
(I’ll admit, I’m in very much a reading slump at the moment, so that could be clouding my judgement slightly? But I don’t THINK so?).
emotional
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was fine. I would've really liked more to Alex's story. It had so much potential and yet was left to fizzle out to nothing. I didn't like the way Beatrice reacted to Alex's questioning either. Yes, she was 100% supportive, but it was all so blase, like "oh yes, obviously, I could see it all along." Girl, you did not. Show some emotion for once.
She planned on taking some time off, but then her employer / friend asked her to take on a new celebrity client. She wants to turn it down, but needs the money to fix her beloved car - Gertie (i think).
The celebrity is known for being difficult + can't keep an assistant.
Turns out her ex-husband has been harassing them.
The assistant bonds with her son.
The celebrity and assistant fall in love, but the celebrity isn't willing to go public with their relationship for the sake of her career.
Then, before she goes on a late night talk show, her son tells her to be her true self.
She comes out on live TV.
Ohh and the assistant helps write her memoir and gives her author credit, to help launch her true dream career.
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
So this is the Hacks AU fic I wanted! The same dynamics just across the pond. I love how we get the entire arc of s1 and 2 of Hacks in one book! AND FOLLOW THROUGH ON THE ROMANCE!! I love how cute Sydney is! She is so cute and the way she looks at Beatrice. It reminds me of those longing glances between Deborah and Ava in the S2 finale where Deborah fires Ava and Ava says “I want to be where you are” THE AIRPORT SCENE WAS A RECREATION OF THAT SCENE!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment
Minor: Child abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Sexual harassment
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
3 stars. Great story and the writing was good but the romance was seriously underwhelming. There was no chemistry or romantic connection between Sydney and Beatrice at all so this fell incredibly flat. It would’ve been fine but this is a romance so I’m going to be harsher on it because it did not deliver for me. I also felt like with Beatrice’s back story and the awful things she went through they were just laid out there and I just wasn’t emotionally connected. That sounds awful to say but something about the way things were described and written just had me so detached. I liked Beatrice (for the most part) and Sydney was great. Both were interesting characters and I liked the way Sydney formed a friendship with Beatrice’s son Alex. It was very sweet. Overall, this was just fine. I’d read more from this author but this one missed the mark.