Here are the books I read this past month that were not part of scheduled reviews! I’m dividing this post into two for the month since I had quite a few at the beginning!
Rosie and the Dreamboat (The Improbable Meet-Cute #3) by Sally Thorne
Rosie and the Dreamboat by Sally Thorne Series: The Improbable Meet-Cute #3
Narrator: Bailey Carr
Published by Amazon Original Stories on January 23, 2024
Genres: Adult Contemporary Romance
Length: 01:14
Source: Purchased
Format: Audiobook
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1 hour, 14 minutes
For a hopeful and hopeless romantic, it’s love at first sight—with a little twist—in a hilarious short story about finding Mr. Right by the USA Today bestselling author of The Hating Game.
Rosie Whittaker and her sister are up for some Galentine’s pampering at a day spa. Getting locked inside a flotation tank is so Rosie. Enter a firefighter hero determined to pry this luckless pearl out of her high-tech shell. All Rosie has to go on is a dreamy voice and a flirty sense of humor. Remain calm, Rosie. This could be what you’ve been waiting for. Is this the man she’s waited for her whole life?
Sally Thorne’s Rosie and the Dreamboat is part of The Improbable Meet-Cute, irresistibly romantic stories about finding love when and where you least expect it. They can be read or listened to in one sitting. Let’s make a date of it.
My Review:
Okay, I honestly think this was my favorite of all of the stories! I adored Rosie, and I adored her dreamboat! It was a totally unique story with her being stuck in a sensory deprivation tank and the supposedly handsome firefighter everyone called Romeo who kept her company while they tried to figure out how to get her out. It was obvious why her sister left her in there to go do the rest of her spa treatments, even if it only cemented Leo’s care for her. Yeah, in a way it was kinda insta-love, but a highly stressful situation like that makes it feel more real for me. The only tiny complaint I have is her being stuck in a trunk in college seems a little out there, that seems more like a high school type of thing. Anyway, I need to read more by Sally Thorne I think!
Drop, Cover, and Hold On (The Improbable Meet-Cute #4) by Jasmine Guillory
Drop, Cover, and Hold On by Jasmine Guillory Series: The Improbable Meet-Cute #4
Narrator: Aure North
Published by Amazon Original Stories on January 23, 2024
Genres: Adult Contemporary Romance
Length: 01:05
Source: Purchased
Format: Audiobook
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It takes nothing less than a fateful natural disaster to throw two opposites together in a ground-shakingly charming short story by the New York Times bestselling author of Drunk on Love.
This Valentine’s Day, Daisy Murray has her heart set on binge-watching rom-coms. Instead, an earthquake traps her inside a bakery with its impossibly rude and insufferably handsome owner and head baker. They already have a history: she’s always smiled, he’s always scowled. Where better to finally get to know each other than amid the disaster? Then again, they have no choice. Besides, it could have its sweet, undeniable, and unpredictable perks.
Jasmine Guillory’s Drop, Cover, and Hold On is part of The Improbable Meet-Cute, irresistibly romantic stories about finding love when and where you least expect it. They can be read or listened to in one sitting. Let’s make a date of it.
My Review:
This was one of my least favorites in the collection. Partly because of the third person POV. Partly because the whole scowling thing, I never felt like he explained that very well? I know it is often something that happens in this type of story. But I don’t feel the author explained it or had that character explain it? Or then again maybe I just kind of missed it because it didn’t grab me with that type of POV.
With Any Luck (The Improbable Meet-Cute #5) by Ashley Poston
With Any Luck by Ashley Poston Series: The Improbable Meet-Cute #5
Narrator: Amy McFadden
Published by Amazon Original Stories on January 23, 2024
Genres: Adult Contemporary Romance
Length: 01:11
Source: Purchased
Format: Audiobook
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Every person she kisses finds their true love, and it’s never her—until now, in this funny and magically romantic short story by the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics.
Audrey Love is cursed to be the person before you find your soulmate, the girl you dump for your true love. So when her best friend disappears hours before his Valentine’s Day wedding, Audrey fears that she did the unthinkable and kissed him at last night’s bachelor party. With help from the best man, she retraces her steps to find the missing groom and, with any luck, a true love of her own.
Ashley Poston’s With Any Luck is part of The Improbable Meet-Cute, irresistibly romantic stories about finding love when and where you least expect it. They can be read or listened to in one sitting. Let’s make a date of it.
My Review:
I do love this author, even more so after getting to meet her last summer and seeing what a fun person she is and how it translates to her stories in how funny they are. This was was also a lot of fun. I loved the plot of everyone she kissed then went on to meet the love of their life right after. There was a thing or two that wasn’t perfect, and I could definitely have used this as a longer story, but I really did enjoy it!
Royal Valentine ( The Improbable Meet-Cute #6) by Sariah Wilson
Royal Valentine by Sariah Wilson Series: The Improbable Meet-Cute #6
Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky
Published by Amazon Original Stories on January 23, 2024
Genres: Adult Royal Romance
Length: 02:01
Source: Purchased
Format: Audiobook
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Valentine’s Day becomes a Roman holiday for a princess in disguise in a dizzyingly romantic short story about making wishes come true by the USA Today bestselling author of The Chemistry of Love.
Princess Ilaria has had it up to her tiara with the paparazzi, her own wild reputation, and the public eye. Trading places with her assistant, Ilaria wants just one blissfully ordinary weekend. Then a handsome photographer with a sexy Scottish burr offers to be her guide. Sparks fly, but how long can they last? Ilaria’s secret has to come out—and it could ruin a perfectly serendipitous romance.
Sariah Wilson’s Royal Valentine is part of The Improbable Meet-Cute, irresistibly romantic stories about finding love when and where you least expect it. They can be read or listened to in one sitting. Let’s make a date of it.
My Review:
Honestly, this one was my other least favorite. Which is kind of crazy because the love interest was Scottish, and I tend to love all things that have to do with Scotland in any way! But it was longer than necessary I think, double the time of some of the ones that were my favorites, in fact I think it was the longest one in the collection. The narrator was okay. But, she was doing several different accents, and when she would switch between what I believe was a Spanish type of accent to the Scottish accent, it didn’t always work and I’d get a bit confused on who was speaking. I also don’t read a ton of royal romances either, so that could have been the issue. Not that there was a ton of royalty stuff exactly. I also didn’t like how he got upset with her at the end for basically the same thing he’d been doing.
Cupid Has a Heart-On (The Holidays #2) by Tara Sivec
Cupid Has a Heart-On by Tara Sivec Series: The Holidays #2
Published by Tara Sivec on May 1, 2022
Genres: Adult Romantic Comedy
Length: 03:40
Source: Purchased
Format: Audiobook
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The Holiday family is back, crazier than ever in this special, Valentine's Day story!
Cupid hits a few roadblocks on the way to Sam and Noel's hearts after their whirlwind Christmas romance. N*pplegate 2016, a stray stripper and a regrettable mix-up with narcotics are just the tips of the arrow when it comes to shooting these two with happily ever after. Nothing seeing a grown man wearing an adult diaper and wings can't fix...hopefully.
First I have to say that I loved this as I always seem to do with Sivec’s books. I always get the longing to be able to go hang out with the author, knowing she just has to be one of the most fun people to hang out with. The female narrator for this is also perfect. The male narrator also does a good job. As usual the book had me laughing in the car, I don’t just mean a little chuckle as the story played, I mean full out almost throwing my head back, slapping the steering wheel, and laughing out loud. I love how Sam reads romance books and the ones named were some of my favorites like Meghan Quinn and Helena Hunting, and the author even had him reading Seduction and Snacks, her own book! Although for me that was a little bit of a continuity issue since the characters from that book show up to do one of their sex toy shows! So many things in this that had me busting out laughing as I drove, making my drive to work not so negative and dreading going to work, and making my drive home more relaxed if I’d been stressed throughout the day. I can’t wait to listen/read the next one, although it is 4th of July next, then Easter for the last book. So do I wait till July to read the third book, and don’t do the fourth one till next year? Which is probably okay seeing as how I have plenty of audiobooks to listen to.
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Audible seems to be doing more of these short ones in collections which some can be fun and easy to read.
I do enjoy them! It’s nice to have them in between longer listens I think.
I listened to the Improbably Meet Cute stories last year and thought they were a lot of fun. I’m glad you enjoyed them for the most part.
They all had good parts, and with them being short, I don’t mind that some weren’t perfect for me.
I have enjoyed books in this series as well. Thanks for sharing about it. Please note that I don’t keep links in my comments except for weekly memes like The Sunday Post. I also don’t leave a link for anything either than these.
What do you mean about not keeping links?
Oh, it’s another grouping of stories from audible/amazon? I’ll have to take a look. I enjoyed the holiday one.
This one came out last year around Valentine’s Day, and I just didn’t get to it till just now, lol. After I enjoyed the holiday ones so much I made myself get them listened to.