The Singles Game

De: Lauren Weisberger

Narrado por: Heather Lind

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and When Life Gives You Lululemons comes a dishy tell-all about a beautiful tennis prodigy who, after changing coaches, suddenly makes headlines on and off the court.

How far would you go to reach the top?

When America’s sweetheart, Charlotte “Charlie” Silver, makes a pact with the devil, the infamously brutal coach Todd Feltner, Good Girl Charlie is banished. After all, no one ever wins big by playing nice. Charlie finds herself catapulted into a world of celebrity stylists, private parties, charity events on mega-yachts, and secret dates with Hollywood royalty. But in a world obsessed with good looks and hot shots, is Charlie willing to lose herself to win it all?

A sexy and wickedly entertaining romp through a world where the stakes are high—and no one plays by the rules—“the book zooms along in the great tradition of summer reads” (The Washington Post).

Awesome book!

What a fun listen! I really enjoyed the narrator too. I Definitely recommend this book

Entertaining

This book was a fun listen. I expected it to be somewhat more humorous than it was, but was still enjoyable.

Great Fun

Like lunch with the girls!! AND a day with your personal trainer! What could be better?

Fun read, especially if you enjoy Tennis.

Quick, fun read. I play tennis and enjoyed seeing into the life of a pro player.

Sporty Summer read

I enjoyed this book it was an easy listen and engaging story about a tennis star on the pro circuit. Very similar to Carrie Soto is back which I also enjoyed. The narrator did a good job but her male voices, especially European male voices were a little irritating. All in all I recommend as a great summer beach read!

Exciting. Good insight

This author did very good research taking the reader through all the emotions, stress, trauma a professional tennis player experiences climbing to the top of her game. An excellent book! Great narration-guides reader/listener through the highs, lows, challenge, persistence needed toward excellence.

Fun story especially if you are a tennis lover

I enjoyed this light story about a professional tennis player. I'm a tennis fan so it was a natural for me! Modern and fun! Audible 20 review sweepstakes entry

Great combo of writer and reader and story!

This is a book I have probably listened to four times, and it's still interesting. Very likeable and real protagonist, no clue how anyone but an actual professional tennis player wrote this, the detail is all here (a pro might disagree, but for now I'm sticking to that!) I was so disappointed in a couple of Lauren's other books, and will probably lose a few of you with that, but "The Singles Game" has focus. You don't have to wait until you're halfway into the book (Like "Last Night At..." ) to understand what that title has to do with the story, or like in "Revenge..." , wonder the entire time. I want to be lost in a book, feel it happening around me, and that is exactly what I get, even after multiple listenings.
There are a lot of spoilers on Good Reads, so I'd steer clear of that (mostly people who missed the point and "needed" the author to tell them something completely non-essential to the story) The reader is very believable as Charlotte "Charlie" Silver, not as much with sexy Spanish and Russian accents. Unless your imagination is better than mine, you might think the hottest guy in tennis looks like a cartoon mouse : 0)
I still have a few questions I would like to ask the author, but not things that ruin the story. Definitely a good choice when resting with a headache but still hoping for entertainment.

The Male Voice of Morality

There’s always a male voice of morality through tall these books telling the ambitious woman that her ambition is not good. It was Nate in the Devil Wears Prada, and now the father in this book. Why does it seem like a woman’s ambition and willingness to work is not a good thing?

Enjoyable chick-lit

I really enjoyed this book, it's predictable as all heck, but it's chick-lit and for me that is part of the genre. I found Charlie likeable and even though her life is far removed from my own I could relate to her problems, choices and doubts. At times I felt like we were missing gaps of the story as often there was a considerable time lapse from chapter to chapter, but overall I think this worked as too much minutiae is also not good (and is often a pit fall of this genre IMO).
I really enjoyed the narration as well, my only comment there is that the men often ended up sounding like teenage boys as the narrator's voice is fairly high. Aside from that minor point it was an ace job and her voice is very pleasant to listen to.