Whisked Away

A Sweet Romantic Comedy

De: Zoe Bliss

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Emma has been struggling since the death of her parents last year. Not only has she become the owner of their bakery, Bun in the Oven, but she's now responsible for making sure her younger sister's tuition payments get paid. That horrible food critic's review of her bakery hasn't helped at all.

Oliver Blackwood, the horrible food critic, isn't actually that bad of a guy. He's just brutally honest and hasn't learned that his words have repercussions outside the newspaper he writes for.

When a local couples food competition needs one more set of contestants, Emma gets tapped. She wants the prize money and is sure she can work with anyone for one short weekend.

Anyone but the man she's paired with. Will Emma and Oliver make a convincing couple? How will they work together in the stress of a competition and maintain the facade of a loving couple?

Ehh?

In all reality I did enjoy this audio book. But it was more of the lack of descriptive emotions. Like...Oliver would be fine one momnet and the next he was bitting Emma's head off. I personally didn't enjoy the aspect of this book because it never truly does unto detail about why the mood swings are there..

Needs editing and several re-writes

Some very predictable story scenarios. I did like the story except for the arrogant obnoxious food critic. Reading a romance with a man who’s an a-hole would have been a trope from decades ago.

Inconsistencies made me cringe

First of all, it was a cute idea with a good premise.

However I was thrown off by inconsistencies in the story. One innocuous one was sending the baking contestants away to wait for the judges to make a decision. The next round they can see the judges talking from not far away. I would imagine a baking contest would be consistent n how the judges were to deliberate.

And the waffling of the “hero” practically gave me whiplash. It felt a little like he would love bomb the heroine after being a total jerk to her. It would have helped if he had expressed remorse or why he was torn and being all over the place emotionally, but he doesn’t.

If I was the heroine (who was extremely conflicted herself), I would run far and fast. No one deserves treatment like that.

The AI voice also threw me whenever it missed words-like abbreviations or acronyms. Otherwise it was surprisingly good at tone, though slightly off at times.

quircky

enjoying the fact it was a wholesome. feel good. love story closer to what real life is like

virtual voice inflectio

I could not finish the book so this is a rating on the voice. in many places it lacks proper inflection and meter in some places. I was constantly having to go back to understand the emotion of the story. if I want to know this book I will have to physically read it