Hacker in Love

By: Lauren Rowe

Narrated by: John Lane, Lily Reynolds

Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins

Publisher's summary

Secrets. Everybody’s got ‘em, including me. Especially me.

The difference is mine will never be revealed, whereas I can easily get yours, assuming the price offered by your enemy is right and the scales of justice appeal to my personal standards of ethics. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. The thing that’s not so easy for a shy guy like me? Finding Ms. Right and locking her down.

Speaking of Ms. Right, the very night I was set up with Hannah Milliken by our mutual friend, I knew I’d one day kneel before her with a ring in hand. Hannah’s the kind of girl who’ll gleefully dance like a gorilla with me in the coolest nightclub or belt out a karaoke duet from Grease like her very life depends on it. She’s gorgeous, too. Funny and smart. And she even wears librarian glasses. See? Perfect.

I don’t doubt Hannah’s the one for me. Indubitably, she is. I only wonder how a dork like me could possibly land a goddess like her.

Unfortunately, when catastrophe strikes, all my questions are rendered moot. Now that Hannah knows the truth about me not actually working in cybersecurity—as well as the questionable things I’ve done to win her over—will I lose my dream girl forever, or is there still a chance for us to chase our happily ever after?

Hacker in Love is a steamy, funny, heart-pounding, standalone contemporary romance with a whole lot of feels, laughs, spice, and swoons by USA Today and internationally best-selling romance author Lauren Rowe.

©2023 Lauren Rowe (P)2023 Lauren Rowe

5 Stars is not enough.

If you’re a Lauren Rowe fan and have been wanting for the book that would never be written. Wait no more and you will not be disappointed. For fans, you know Henn has done a lot for his friends and we get to see Henn’s side of all those things. We also know Henn and Hannah are two peas in a pod and now we get a front row seat on all the good stuff. I feel like Lauren should have ended the book a la Paul Harvey with “and now you know the rest of the story”.

If you have not ready any or all of Lauren’s books fear not, there are no spoilers in “Hacker in Love”. Which had to be a feat for Lauren to accomplish given how Henny is woven into some major parts of the other books. This fact takes nothing away from this book, because you don’t know what you don’t know. Those things aren’t key to this book.

No exaggeration, i pretty much had a permanent smile on my face while I listened to this book. As for the audio, it’s tough to beat a John Lane - Lily Reynolds narration. Those two are magic together.

❤️❤️❤️

I love this whole series!!! Listed to everything multiple times. Anxiously awaiting all future releases!

Easy peasey Lemon squeezey

I love everything Lauren Rowe does. So needlessly couldn’t wait to have my ears listen to this one!

It was awesome to have both points of view of both Peter Hennessy (Henn) and Hannah Bananas points of views here. Like ma y of us die hard fans of the Rowe. This one didn’t disappoint.

I laughed, cried and swooned my way through it and of course was left with an bright smile at the end.

I really enjoyed seeing how all of the characters were brought into the fold as we heard Henn and Hannah’s love story.

The audio was great. John lane is as always awesome and I believe that I know who Lily Reynolds was and always enjoy her voice.

Honestly anything Lauren does is fabulous and can be listened to as a standalone but she has interconnected characters in her books so you’re going to want to hear everything she has to it.

Congrats Lauren.

Annoying

I wanted to like this book but the female lead sounded condescending and found her character manipulative. Therefore ruined this for me, the male lead was such a good guy and should not be with that nosy b$&ch!

Loved This Sweet & Quirky Couple

Lauren Rowe is back with the book that we never thought we would get! Henn and Hannah have long been fan favorites as side characters and a critical part of a wonderful found family. I loved finally hearing the full journey of this sweet and quirky couple! (Note, this book is a standalone that can easily be read without reading any of the previous books.)

While Henn and Hannah fall very fast, it feels natural like two puzzle pieces fitting together. However, they must face some challenges and deal with their baggage before they can have a chance at forever. Henn and Hannah’s story focuses on finding the one that you are meant to be with and the important role of communication and trust in a relationship.

I already know this book is one that I will listen to over and over again. It is sweet, funny, and entertaining, with plenty of laugh-out-loud moments mixed with the steam that you expect from this author.

Another Brilliant Installment

Lauren Rowe is one of my favorite authors, so I'm not surprised I loved this one, but I am surprised how much. I fell in love with LR's world in her unique rock star novels and her incorporation of real music into the stories. For this reason, I've started reading her other books, and this one was one of my favorites. You can't help but fall in love with Hen & Hannah. There's the perfect level of charming dorkiness in their story without any cheesiness. Before reading this one, I wasn't really motivated to read Kat's story, but now I can't wait to hear Kat's full story. I remember now why I love the Morgan clan almost as much as I love the Goats. Even if you've never read a Lauren Rowe book before, you can enjoy this one. Strongly recommend - especially if you enjoy romances with main characters who look more like everyday people and not supermodels.

Boring

This is definitely the worst in the series. Boring and the female narrator’s voice is annoying.

Oh Hen!

There is so much to love about Hacker in Love, and in particular, it was refreshing that the main characters were absolutely adorkable. Both narrators completely captured these characters and made me love them that much more. We get so many delightfully gray, alpha, overbearing MMCs in romance, but Henn is sweet, thoughtful, and a total dork. But as anyone who has read Lauren Rowe before, we also know that Henn has mad skills with a keyboard and isn’t shy about utilizing his abilities in questionably gray ways. He is the man you need when the proverbial… hit the fan or when you need to track someone down. We’ve only had glimpses of him in the past, but they were just enough that readers (including this one) really wanted him to have his own story.

Henn is a master at uncovering your secrets and finding those that don’t want to be found. His friends rely on him when sticky situations occur. But he is a little bit of an enigma. He keeps the extent of his white hat hacker skills to himself and always covers his tracks. When his friend falls in love, his love Kat knows that her bestie Hannah will be perfect for Henn. Their meet cute is adorable, and also adorkable. It’s a match made in heaven, but when Henn’s secrets start coming out, will Hannah accept what he’s done to win her over? Or will she walk away?

I loved how Lauren wove his story with plot points from her previous characters so the timelines are connected. We get to see so many of our favorite characters again and get to see Henn in action rather than just the mysterious results of his computer skills. And Hannah was adorable. She was the perfectly normal nerd that lies in us all that Henn needed in his life. Her storyline gave us the perfect juicy plot point to follow. This book is such a cute story about slightly nerdy people falling in love with a lot of steam, humor, and swoon.

Not the Best

I hate saying this but this one was hard to listen to. I actually skipped parts to get to the end. The story itself wasn’t as engaging to me and narration fell flat. Other books the narrators brought the characters to life and there was so much emotion. In this one I felt like someone was just reading to me with little variation in tone between emotions and characters. I love the world LR has created but this book was just ok.

So much fun

Walking around listening to this I realized I had a wide smile on my face the whole time. This was just delightful. Great banter, fun and unique characters, swoony romance. I also enjoyed the fan service of all the characters from Rowe’s previous series (you wouldn’t have to know those stories to appreciate their presence, it just made it that much richer). This was light fare but also had enough grounding to give it substance. Just a thoroughly enjoyable listen and well worth the credit I spent on it.