A review by readerkat8
Playboy Pilot by Penelope Ward, Vi Keeland

adventurous emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Another emotional and hot romance by author team Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward. 

Kendall Sparks meets airline pilot Captain Carter Clines in an airport bar while she's at a crossroad and contemplating a life changing decision. Sparks fly (pun definitely intended) and she ends up following him to Rio. Playboy Carter can feel the potential for more and convinces Kendall to keep following him, ultimately bringing her back home to FL. 
After
an unplanned pregnancy
grounds their relationship before it has a chance to take off, they both have to figure out who they are and what they want - but is that each other, and if so - is it too late?

Not going to lie, some of the logistical impossibilities took me out of the story (like Kendall being able to just fly anywhere on a whim without worrying about visas or anything), and it's a little hard to believe that
someone who got arrested in a foreign country with incredibly strict decency laws would want to (1) stay there, (2) go back there later, and (3) be allowed back there later
, and I got a little annoyed that
Kendall was so hung up on Carter's past and then just walked away without even considering if the other woman was lying or trying to find a way to work things out with him if it was true
.  But overall the chemistry between these two characters was great and I was definitely rooting for them. I loved Carter's quirk of always having the right Beatles song for a given situation and his nicknames for Kendall, not to mention his swoony "real life" of taking care of his elderly neighbors in the "adult active community" where he lived. 

I listened to the audiobook and the narration by Andi Arndt and Sebastian York was outstanding (as one would expect with those two stellar performers.)