Crazy Sexy Love

An Enemies-to-Lovers Romance

De: Alison G. Bailey

Narrado por: Kelli Tager, Quentin Hudspeth

Sophie

I’m an intelligent and independent woman with a fantastic career. My personal life is perfect. No attachments or commitments. I know firsthand there is no such thing as “happily ever after” and I’m okay with that. I love everything about men—their broad shoulders, bulging biceps, and chiseled jawlines. I love when they come and especially when they go. I’m living my best life. At least I thought I was until the day a six foot, green eyed buffoon who wouldn’t take no for an answer knocked on my door needing a place to stay. Doug Truman is an unwanted entity that I’m forced to endure. But as hard as I try to tolerate his antics, he still drives me crazy in more ways than one.

Doug

What woman wouldn’t want me? Sophie Cipriano that’s who. I don’t get it. I’m hot, funny, and can charm the clothes off anyone. Tons of naked chicks have said so. I would gladly supply names and numbers if I could remember any of them. I’m not a jerk. I’m just forgetful. Except when it comes to Sophie. Sure her lips call me every horrible name in the book, but her eyes light up with fire whenever we’re near each other. Sophie’s utter loathing of me only makes her more desirable. All I need is one night to get her out of my system. When we became roommates I knew she wouldn’t be able to resist me for long. But little did I know I wouldn’t be able to resist falling in love.

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Doug and Shopie

Sophie and Doug are the "single" friends in their friend group that enjoy flirting and antagonizing each other whenever they can. It's clear to their friends that they'd be a great couple and have chemistry. These two "frenemies" end up temporally living together which really allows them to get to know each other more than surface level. I really enjoyed how their story evolved and Doug's relationship with Sophie's grandmother. New to me narrators Kelli Tager and Quentin Hudspeth did a good job.

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POV:
You work hard and have been successful—you don’t do relationships. Only one-night stands. The guy you’ve had a few close encounters with, but ostensibly can’t stand randomly shows up at your door one night, needing a place to crash. You reluctantly let him … and wait! Might there be … MORE to him … than you’d realized?

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This is your classic forced prox / enemies-to-friends-to-lovers / roommates-to-lovers, tropey, witty contemporary romance. It’s well done, packed with one-liners, banter and set in a fun ‘small town vibes’ world. It works, IMO.


🏠 Roommates to lovers.
💚Circle of friends.
🏠 Perceived other woman drama.
💚 Sizzling chemistry.
🏠 Friends with benefits to … more.
💚 Enemies-to-friends-to-lovers.
🏠 Banter.

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Overall:
It didn’t take long to get into this and it kept me company during lots of work and walk—mundane tasks. My first read by this author, it taught me that I need to explore more from her. Funny, cute, and quick. 4 stars.


🎧 Audio:
This was a flawless audio production with smooth voice-acting and transitions and perfect overall sound quality. 5 stars. 🦩

RomCom ?

Crazy Sexy Love is an Enemies-to-Lovers Romance
written by Alison G. Bailey. This is the first book I've read/listened to written by her. I think it was supposed to be a RomCom, but it just didn't do it for me. The characters were too immature so they never grew on me. It wrapped up quickly with a HEA.

The narrators were good. The performance was emotional. Sometimes it's hard to tell when it's the book or the narration that missed the mark. But I truly think it was the book for me.

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Sophie and Doug had me laughing at their antics an

Sophie and Doug had me laughing at their antics and banter. The story reminded me a little of a movie I love, minus the horrible heartbreak luckily, of a couple's two best friends forced into each other's realms. I actually ended up feeling sorry for Doug as Sophie fired little missile barbs at him, but it was like a rom com playing out in my head and I was just waiting for the next laugh or emotional landmine between these two as they stumbled towards their HEA. I really enjoyed this story and will be looking up others by this author. The narration helped bring the characters to life.

standalone steamy romance

I wasn't too sure about this book - in all transparency, I saw this wasn't highly rated in Goodreads, so I was a bit on guard when going into this read/listen but here is my unbiased review. Main characters are Sophie and Doug who are best friends with a married couple and these two have been in the same friend group for 5 years now. The attraction was there from the very beginning, but Sophie shut it down hard and has been giving off mixed signals. Doug is determined, maybe overly so but as you can imagine any good romance has a HEA so we know it pays off in the end. We have great dual narration and when I first started the listen it seemed like it was being done in slow mo - so...speeding up the narration to 1.5 made it perfect for me. The narration not only sounded more normal but also seemed to make the vocals and storyline flow all the better. As I stated before Sophie gave mixed signals and had her own issues as to why she is a commitment phobia, but we didn't really get to the root of that, it was just a mention here and there, but it greatly affected her character. What I loved most is the absolutely hilarious moments that had be bursting out in laughter so hard I had tears in my eyes. While I see this is noted as an enemies to lovers troupe, in my option could easily be a rom-com. So, I was pleasantly surprised and would definitely listen to more from Bailey!

This book was given to me for free at my request and I voluntarily provided this review.
*this review is based on the audio version of this read.