Mariana Zapata has an unofficial crown, and readers hand it to her again and again: she is the undisputed queen of the slow burn. Here’s my honest, spoiler-free take on the Wall of Winnipeg and Me audiobook. Where other romance…
For a solid year I had Meet Me at the Lake filed in my head under “breezy summer fling” — the sort of sun-and-sunscreen romance I could enjoy on a dock and forget by September. Let me walk you through…
Two desks shoved nose to nose, and a staring contest neither combatant will admit is happening. Settle in for my take on the Hating Game audiobook. Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman sit locked across from each other, timing each other’s…
Ten hours and five minutes. Here’s my honest, spoiler-free take on the Part of Your World audiobook. That is exactly how long Julia Whelan and Zachary Webber keep you stranded in the tiny town of Wakan, Minnesota, and by the…
The “fake-tutoring-to-real-feelings” hook is the exact college sports romance trope that The Deal nails, and Elle Kennedy plays it with more heart than I expected going in. A few spoiler-free thoughts on the Deal audiobook, then. Hannah Wells needs an…
The Maple Hills rink smells like cold rubber and burnt concession-stand coffee, and at six in the morning the ice belongs to exactly one person. Consider this your spoiler-free guide to the Icebreaker audiobook. Anastasia Allen has it booked, her…
Verdict up front: this is the rom-com I hand to people who insist they hate rom-coms, and it wins almost every time. The Unhoneymooners is a little over nine hours of two stubborn, over-caffeinated adults getting shoved onto a free…
Behind a door in the Healdsburg vacation house, wedged into a converted closet lined floor to ceiling with paperbacks, an eleven-year-old Elliot lifts a heavy book off the shelf and hands it across to Macy without a word, and she…
Can the worst thing a person ever does to you accidentally hand you the best year of your life? I’ve spent real hours with the Funny Story audiobook, so here is the verdict. That question sits at the warm, aching…
Julia Whelan can make a single held breath sound like a decade of unspoken history, and she spends most of Happy Place proving it. Settle in for my take on the Happy Place audiobook. If you already trust Whelan with…