The Christmas Market Crush

A Firefighter Romance

De: Molly Pine

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

She’s hiding behind her candles. He’s hiding behind a calendar. This Christmas, can they find the courage to be seen?

Melanie Bowman never wanted to run the family’s booth at the Evergreen Falls Christmas Market. Numbers and spreadsheets? Yes. Twelve-hour days filled with strangers? Absolutely not. But with her pregnant sister on bed rest, Melanie is stuck selling candles—and stuck next to the firefighters’ wildly popular calendar fundraiser. Including one firefighter in particular.

Luke Dutton—aka Mr. December—is the calendar’s reluctant star. Everyone sees the abs, the smolder, the candy cane photo shoot gone viral. But Luke longs for someone to look past the glossy image and notice the real man underneath.

When a gust of wind tangles Melanie and Luke in a banner-worthy disaster, sparks fly. Soon, Luke is helping Melanie draw customers while Melanie is helping Luke face more than just the crowds. Between nosy firefighters, a meddling elf, and a jealous ex in spandex, they’ll have to survive twelve days of chaos leading up to Christmas Eve.

As snow falls and lights twinkle, two unlikely hearts will discover whether the most imperfect person can the one who’s perfectly right.

Fans of small-town charm, slow-burn romance, and holiday happily-ever-afters will find their next favorite festive read here.

The AI reader was so bad.

She mispronounced words and half the time I couldn't tell which character was speaking. very little inflection in her voice. It took away from a very cute story.

AI Narration was not good!

Did not like AI narration! So many "computer pronounced" words and lacking emoition in many parts of the story.

Christmas Closeness

This has a super cute storyline and is a quick read/listen. It’s always sweet to read about one shy person matching up with one hot lovable person, especially at Christmas.

Glad it was only 3 hrs!!

First, I keep telling myself I’m no longer going to listen to virtual voice narration, but sometimes the storylines draw me in. No more! It drives me crazy when words are mispronounced, when you can’t tell who is speaking, and when the voice inflection is absent.

The storyline was cute if not realistic. Once started, I didn’t want to quit, but was glad it was only 3 hrs long. Give it a try if you don’t mind virtual voice.

a.i. is terrible

I didn't realize it was A.I narration for the first two minutes, but after that, the narration was so robotic, emotionless, mispronounced, and poorly timed that I had to go back and check. of course I didn't finish it. it was terrible. It was so bad that it made the story sound pirated and cobbled up into shape by a.i. My recommendation to the author would be to stay away from a.i. narration, because in case she actually wrote a real story, the narration made the dialogue so wooden it also sounded like it wasn't a real story, but an A.i one.

I will stay away from any a.i. narrations in the future.