Billionaire on the Loose

Billionaires and Bridesmaids Series, Book 5

By: Jessica Clare

Narrated by: Jillian Macie

Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

Taylor is a genius when it comes to computers, but understanding the opposite sex is beyond her. Because she always fumbles her flirtations, she needs help in finding her Prince Charming. So when her friend, Gretchen, sets her up as a tour guide for a new guy in town, she says yes despite her misgivings. She just doesn't expect Mr. Charming to actually be royalty.

A faction in his country wants him to be king, but Loch has no intention of taking the crown. To keep from being named as the next successor, he hatches a scheme to marry a totally unacceptable American woman. Quirky Taylor seems like the perfect person for the job, until Loch realizes he likes more about her than her ability to keep him off the throne.

When Loch's secret schemes come out, his chance of happiness with Taylor are blown - unless he can find a way to get the nerdy object of his affection to believe she's truly the queen of his heart.

©2016 Jessica Clare (P)2016 Tantor

Love is in the air

I love all of her books,. I have been listening nonstop. They all have a cohesive storyline and lots of SEX. All of the billionaire books go together and make you want to listen to the rest of the series.

Delightfully Nerdy

This book reached every geeky nerdy part of my soul and I absolutely loved it!!

I wish there was a male narrator also might have

made the story more interesting. I had to rate low because of it. love story ok.

So many loose ends throughout the story...

I couldn't make it through the whole book and stopped at around 2 hours left. Throughout the book there was so many inconsistencies and loose ends. Taylor is the main character with a prince who is moved to the United States for 2 years. At the beginning I thought it was because of a wedding, but after the first two chapters it's not mentioned again. Then Taylor takes him around the town and he starts discovering all these men who have crushes on her, but she is totally oblivious - then they're not mentioned again. She is the captain of a online gaming guild, and she lets it rule her life, especially one of the members who frequently says he's going to kill himself if she doesn't get online and play with him. But she is too nervous or scared to tell anybody about it or to stand up to him to get some help. Then the prince decides to come up with a scheme to trick her into marriage, in which he plans to divorce her in a few years after, insuring that he won't be forced to take the throne. Before I stopped he was going to take her on a vacation to get away from everything so he could propose, she had just got fired and he could see that she needed a break. So he decides instead of taking her to some tropical location for a break she needs, he's going to take her to a gaming conference... I think there's just too many ideas swirling around that take the book in so many different directions that leave it with a weak storyline. The narration was great though!

too much swearing.

it's a sort of decent story, but way too liberal use of the "F" word and others. took my attention from the mostly annoying character s.

Don't waste your time

I couldn't finish this. the performance was childish and so is the story line. This may be on of the worst books ever!

Opposite INTERESTS Don't Attract

I'm going harsh on this one and I hate to do it because I recently discovered this author and I've been LOVING her other books. They're fun, sexy, and the characters usually pop. But this book failed from the start (and I'll confess I did not finish it). Here's why:

Opposites attract can be a fun dynamic, but the notion is based on opposite but complimentary personality traits that each somehow complete the other. For instance, "In the Wrong Billionaire's Bed" by the same author had an uptight heroine who needed help becoming vulnerable and a playboy hero who needed an anchor. Worked great.

Opposite INTERESTS, on the other hand, just mean you have nothing to keep you together once you get past the great sex. I've already glimpsed the HEA, and it ends it divorce once they get it all out of their system. The real question is whether this happens before or after they start a family and whether the kids get dragged into it. Or maybe the kids distract them so much that they don't figure it out until they're empty nesters looking at one another going, "Okay,, now what?"

It probably doesn't help matters that I myself am a geek. Of all the heroines in this series, this is the one that should have resonated with me the most. All the scifi references, gaming references .... that's my world. And I gotta say, while I get that Thor's hot (I mean really really hot), I just can't imagine myself ever being with someone who doesn't share at least some of my geeky interests. It's not sexy.

I do apologize for the harshness of this review and for the fact that I'm leaving it after only reading about a quarter of the book. I just couldn't keep going. The narrator, as always, did a lovely job. Unlike others, I actually like it when a single narrator (male or female) reads an entire book rather than having two narrators swap back and forth for male/female chapters. I find alternating narrators distracting because the hero/heroine don't sound the same in the various chapters.

Despite this review, I can't recommend this AUTHOR highly enough. She's rekindled my faith in romance. Every author is allowed a dud. :)