Babycakes

By: Donna Kauffman

Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi

Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's Summary

Molten chocolate...cinnamon spice...gingerbread...old-fashioned Vanilla... You can't stop at just one. And the women of the Cupcake Club love to indulge....

Kit Bellamy was raised on pie. Mamie Sue's Peanut Pies, to be exact, the family company her scheming brother-in-law sold out from under her. Now Kit needs a new recipe for her life - and sleepy Sugarberry Island is the first ingredient. Running mail-order cupcake business Babycakes is a chance to get her baking on again - until she meets tall, dark, and adorable lawyer Morgan Westlake. New to the island to raise his goddaughter, he's as mouthwatering as any of Kit's creations. It's just her luck that he's the spawn of the very law firm that helped crush her dreams.... Fortunately, Kit's new friends can assure her that Morgan is no typical Westlake - and that even lawyers, not to mention single dads, need romance. If Kit can just be persuaded to follow her appetite - and set another place at her holiday table - her sweetest dreams just might come true....

©2012 Donna Kauffman (P)2014 Audible Inc.

Critic Reviews

"One incredibly sweet read!" (Mariah Stewart, New York Times best-selling author)

Lovely story, but narration...

Nice love story, nothing earth-shattering. I normally love Amanda Ronconi. She is a great narrator and I have listened to many of the books she narrated. But this book is something else. Her impression of a five-year-old American girl sounds exactly like my Chinese-born 50-year-old friend. This really threw me off. Hope she doesn’t do it again.

Chapter 2 and might be done.

I’ve listened to the first two books and started this one immediately after fishing book 2. Which at this point is my preferred of the 3 I’ve heard so far. I must be the only one who finds the narrator bad. I wish I didn’t. Book one she attempts a English male accent which nearly had me stop the series there. This one her 5 year old girl voice has me wanting to listen to nails on a chalk board over the lisping child. If the child has an actual lisp mentioned later on in the book I may forgive her. If I get there. I can not rate the story at this point as I’m only 2 chapters in. But if it’s like the last two I’m sure the guys will be overly sappy and the females insecure and neurotic. Romance books are not my normal but got this series on a whim. I normally roll my eyes at books like this. It’s not personal to the author.

So much eye rolling

It feels like the main female character is annoying like her problem isn't really something that makes me feel sympathetic to her but makes me want to tell her to just get over it all ready and stop make excuses. Love the parts with the turtles but over all i feel like i shouldn't want to fast forward though large chunks of the book in order to get through it.

Heartwarming

Book 3 in the Cupcake Club series is heartwarming and delightful. Great addition to the series and stays within the storyline of the first 2.

Narration- ughhhhh

Normally I really like this narrator, but her impression of the five-year-old girl was enough to put me over the edge! I literally fast forwarded every time she did the impression of the child- I literally love this series but the impression is beyond painful!

very yummy

I really want to move to Sugar berry!!
Maybe I could find my true love there, Lol.

Fun book

I would have like the series to continue. The books are funny and the characters are fun. I like the narrator. I’ve read other reviews. Not sure you can say anything negative. It’s light and fun to listen to.

great book

great book.  I really enjoyed the book and look forward to reading more by the author.

Better!

Glad I pushed through the first two to get to this one! Story is much more interesting and has less filler. Scenes with friends/ the cupcake club are actually relevant to pushing the story foreward and aren't crazy long like the last two books.

Light and Easy Listen

This was a fun, easy listen. Enjoyed the characters and continuation of their stories through the series, but was a little one-note in terms of the story. Any conflict between characters happened in the past and they were working on being together now, so it didn't really play into any story tension so it's climax felt like it fell a little flat, which is sad since this one had the most potential to have something for the characters to come together and fight for.
Listened as part of Audible's new Member Benefit Free Listens and enjoyed it, but likely wouldn't have spent money or a credit on it to buy it.