Rock Bottom Girl: A Small Town Romantic Comedy

By: Lucy Score

Narrated by: Natalie Duke, Stephen Dexter

Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

"You may be faking the relationship, but you're not faking the orgasms."

Downsized, broke, and dumped, 38-year-old Marley sneaks home to her childhood bedroom in the town she couldn't wait to escape 20 years ago. Not much has changed in Culpepper. The cool kids are still cool. Now they just own car dealerships and live in McMansions next door. Oh, and the whole town is still talking about that Homecoming she ruined her senior year.

Desperate for a new start, Marley accepts a temporary teaching position. Can the girl banned from all future Culpepper High Homecomings keep the losing-est girls soccer team in school history from killing each other and prevent carpal tunnel in a bunch of phone-clutching gym class students?

Maybe with the help of Jake Weston, high school bad boy turned sexy good guy. When the school rumor mill sends Marley to the principal's office to sign an ethics contract, the tattooed track coach, dog dad, and teacher of the year becomes her new fake boyfriend and alibi - for a price. The Deal: He'll teach her how to coach if she teaches him how to be in a relationship.

Who knew a fake boyfriend could deliver such real orgasms? But it's all temporary. The guy. The job. The team. There's too much history. Rock bottom can't turn into a foundation for happily ever after. Can it?

Warning: Story also includes a meet-puke, a bouffanted nemesis, a yard swan and donkey basketball, a teenage-orchestrated makeover, and a fake relationship that gets a little too real between the sheets.

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Awww great story…

About how unhappy we all are on the inside! Lmao! Actually it was super cute, very relatable on so many levels - there is a midlife situation for all represented in this book. Marley had a tough string of events that did a number on her confidence starting in high school. She ends up back home and finds herself though it takes busting up the reality of her dreams before she recognizes it. The love story is good too but Marley’s journey here is really the highlight. In most romances I’d have liked a baby bump epilogue but this is even better and more appropriate - people who want to see a couple with no intentions or interest in having kids? This is your book! I will say I was a bit frustrated by Marley holding her sister on this pedestal and tight fisting this “dream” that wasn’t REALLY hers but there was a lot of realism here too. It’s hard to let go and really make yourself happy sometimes. Painful process. Great book!

Laugh out loud funny

This was a very cute and funny book. This is my first Lucy Score book. it was a very feel good, entertaining small town romance .
Natalie Duke is brilliant in this. Her comedic timing, her delivery and just that little bit of snark she gave to Marley was all so perfect.
Stephen Dexter is a fantastic Jake. His more somber moments were my favorite.
Altogether this was a really good listen.

Three dimensional characters you can care about

I really got invested in these characters. Jake helped Marley find the confidence to be her real self and learn to be present in the moment. I was willing to spend 14 hours because they evolved and grew. And they were FUNNY!

The one issue that made the 14 hours really drag was how loooonnnngggg it took Marley to get past the idea that everything was always her fault. Really tiresome Marley. The proverbial “get over it”.

But I am for sure going to try more books by Lucy Score.

Score!

Such a sweet(a little heat!🔥), funny, and fantastical story! Always love a Lucy Score book!

Loved it!

Fantastic story with fantastic narration! They both delivered some great performances that made me visualize the story wonderfully. Well done and absolutely recommend a listen!

Loved It!

While so many moments had me reliving my own not-so-great high school experience, I was more entertained by Marley and Jake that my own crisis thankfully averted. Great story, great character chemistry, literally LOL banter in every chapter.
Outstanding by performance by Duke and Dexter.

Jake Weston………🥵

Marley is trying to restart life in a new setting. Jake just happens to work at the same school. The heat becomes hotter with this story! Narrator was delivered exceptionally well! Lucy Score does it again!

Funny and Sweet. No need for so much saucy talk!

i would have rated this book a 4 all around if it weren't for unnecessary use of sex descriptors peppered throughout the book. I am not a prude, it was just an "Okay, got it. The characters lust after one another.". The characters were well developed and the book funny and sweet. Almost quit after the 3rd incident of sex talk but glad I finished it.

Narration put me off

I have read and really enjoyed this book. I did not enjoy the narration, I only made it through two chapters before giving it up.

That epilogue!

What woman hasn't been targeted by a mean girl at some point in their life? (BTW, if you haven't, then it might be that YOU are the mean girl.) Marley is my new favorite character in the Lucy-verse. She's flawed and amazing and doesn't know how wonderful she is. The flashback homecoming scene had me laughing so hard that tears ran down my face. Jake's epilogue had me crying so hard tears ran down my face. The narrators were absolutely perfect.