Big Bad Billionaire Boss

Big Billionaire, Book 1

By: Ali Parker

Narrated by: Zachary Zaba

Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

A major cosmetics company is looking for America’s next sweetheart to be their perfume cover girl, and honey, that just ain’t me. Or I didn’t think it was.

My brother offered me a chunk of change to behave in our family-owned restaurant for one day, and that’s the day handsome walked back into my life. My brother’s best friend from school. But he’s a big shot now, working for the billionaire owner of this company that’s offering me a shot. And the old man doesn’t have an heir, so my handsome first love is in line for the jackpot.

Together, they’re on the hunt for the girl next door. Unfortunately, due to me behaving for a day, the old man my guy works for decides I’m just the girl for the job. He couldn’t be more wrong, but if it means more money in my pocket and stealing a few more minutes of my first love’s attention, I’m in. Fake sweetheart that pleases the crowd? That’s me. The best part is that with all of this money, I’ll get to pursue my dream of becoming a romance author.

There’s only one catch to this sweeping Cinderella story—I’m highly allergic to perfume. No turning back now. The contract is signed, and the games have begun. All I can do now is jump in and literally hold my breath. I’m ready for the ride of a lifetime with my big billionaire boss.

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Book is good but narration made it hard to listen

The story is good, but I had a hard time getting past the narration. I never give bad notes on narrators, but I have some notes so that the narrator can hopefully improve his skills. It was like listening to a mixture between Chandler Bing and Captain Kirk. Every few words, while in narration mode, he would emphasize the word. He also would start a sentence at a normal pace and it would get faster as he would go. It’s almost like I was messing with the speed and would use a normal speed at the beginning of the sentence, then double time it in time to finish. He’d also take a huge pause after EVERY sentence, I don’t narrate for a living, but I have done narration on stage and I get that you have to be clear, but some people can’t understand when people talk fast. Now I will say he did a good job when he was doing dialogue. It wasn’t so sing songy, with weird word emphasis. The conversations were more casual, he did really well changing up the tones for each person. And honestly if he adopted the natural speed and tone he does for dialogue it would be 80% better.
I get that he’s trying to make narration different from dialogue, but it’s just too different and it seems like people prefer more of a casual approach. I’ll be looking for this narrator in the future and hope that he takes notes from all of the reviews, because if he does he’d be awesome. His dialogue really is good, he even does a passable female voice.

The story is good, I just really had a hard time focusing past the narration and I want to get lost in a book, I specifically sought out this author for another book because I love her work,

It was ok

This one was really just ok. it passed the time but not sure if I'll remember it

Awful narration

The narrator talked way to fast. It was too hard to understand and wasn't normal. I could not even listen more than a few chapters it was so annoying. I previously read the book on my Kindle and gave it 5 stars. This was a big let down.