The Love Plot

De: Samantha Young

Narrado por: Savannah Peachwood

There’s a magnetic attraction when a happy-go-lucky gig worker agrees to a fake relationship with a rich, uptight New Yorker in this steamy romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Samantha Young.

Star Shine Meadows is all about freedom, thanks to the hippie parents who raised her. Juggling her jobs as a professional costume character actor and a line sitter, she believes in no expectations, no stressful ambitions, and no-strings-attached relationships. So when she meets a birthday girl’s grumpy uncle while working a princess party, she can’t help but needle him. She’ll never see him again, and honestly, he's pretty hot.

Rafe Whitman may be a veterinarian with a great bedside manner, but that doesn’t mean his patience extends to anyone with opposable thumbs. His family will not stop nagging him about finding “the one,” so when he runs into obnoxiously cheery Star again, he makes her an offer: He’ll pay her more than she would make doing her odd jobs if she’ll pretend to be his girlfriend at family gatherings. She can stop sitting in line waiting for someone else’s new phone, and he’ll get his family off his back.

When the tension between them heats to a breaking point, Star’s desire for "no strings" is tested against Rafe’s staunch stability. They say opposites attract, after all....

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Full of charm, humor and swoon, The Love Plot is the grumpy/sunshine book that I didn’t know I needed! Young’s writing shines in this trope-heavy rom-com, and I never wanted it to end!”—Lynn Painter, New York Times bestselling author

"Young’s take on the fake dating trope is sexy and charmingly unpretentious. This is sure to leave readers smiling.”—Publishers Weekly

"A steamy, tension-filled read.”—Library Journal

Great Road Trip Listen!

I had a 36 hour road trip and this book made me laugh and cry. So perfectly written!

Flirty, sexy, fun!

I loved this book. I listened to the first six chapters and realized I’d been smiling the entire time. It only got better with each chapter.

Fun!

Fun heartwarming sexy read. love the Hero! The heroin is eccentric but real. Hero is my favorite

Her happiness

I really liked that Star just wanted to be happy. She didn’t have an agenda or wanted to climb the ladder. She just simply wanted to exist and make others happy. I really needed more of that perspective as I had some self reflection on my own accord and happiness is what we should all strive for but are unable to because we are all one paycheck away from homelessness. So it’s really had to find that happiness and only want simplicity when our environment creates chaos and stress. But a very sweet and great plot definitely FB (finished book). Highly recommended

Felt like reading a diary in a bad way

I mostly enjoyed this book, but the pacing was really strange. It felt like two books put together, like the actual fake-dating-trope romance was the first two thirds of the book and a hasty sequel/follow-up was the last third. It felt like it was rambling on with no clear plot destination for several chapters and I almost stopped listening (it’s a credit to the quality of the character development that I still wanted to know what was going to happen, even when it got annoying).

Something else that bothered me was that it kind of felt like the spicy scenes were written by a man. Not that men can’t write good spicy scenes! But what I mean by that is these scenes felt like, despite the female-only POV, that the woman was often a prop or a male fantasy version of a woman, like it was written to appeal specifically to men. It was weird, compared to what spicy scenes are like in most romance novels, and it felt disconnected from the main character’s otherwise empowered and relatively self-aware personality.

I thought the performance was great. The voices were distinctive, so it was never unclear who was talking, and it was engaging to listen to. Sometimes it was hard to tell in audio what was internal monologue and what the main character actually said out loud, but that’s not a narrator issue.