Cupid's Match

A Hachette Audiobook powered by Wattpad Production

By: Lauren Palphreyman

Narrated by: Laurie Catherine Winkel

Cupid's Match is a new release from Hachette Audiobooks: Powered by Wattpad -- an innovative collaboration between Hachette Book Group, a leading publisher, and Wattpad, a passionate storytelling community of over 45 million people. Your favorite online stories, now available in your headphones!

When seventeen-year-old Lila Black goes to the LA based Cupids Matchmaking Service it is to tell them to stop spamming her. Instead she finds out that cupids are real, she has been identified as the 'match' of the banished, dangerous (and irresistibly attractive) Cupid himself, and that due to an administrative error he will be arriving at her high school tomorrow.

The organization assigns one of their Matchmaking Agents, Cal, to hide her from him, but despite his efforts she finds herself increasingly drawn to her match. And though Cupid may be reckless and arrogant, he doesn't seem nearly as dangerous as people have been telling her.

She soon discovers that the Matchmaking Service will go to deadly lengths to make sure the match doesn't take place, that Cupid may have a secret agenda, and that she must fight her growing feelings for him; because if the two get together, Lila may not survive the consequences.

When the inevitable happens Lila finds herself caught alongside Cupid and Cal, in a fight for her life, on one side of an Ancient battle over Love itself.

AMAZING!

Holy crap! That was sooooo goooood!!!! I am so happy with it! I have no words!

A+

Such a good story. Stunningly told and so well written. I'm sad it is over.

Ehh

It was just ok . It was missing the spark and the romance. I was confused most of the book 🤷🏻‍♀️

Wanted to enjoy it but...

This audiobook is difficult to review, so I'll grade it on a few points:

Writing: The writing is amateurish. It's what I call 'Fanfic writing'. The sentence structure is constant which makes it repetitive and boring. it's 1st person present tense which includes so many 'I's that I wanted to scream at one point. And the flow of the story was so sloooooooowwwwww. Which had to do with the repetitive sentence structure because there was a lot going on in the story itself. There is a tremendous amount of telling instead of showing. The sentence "I feel a shiver slide up my spine" does not have the same impact as "A shiver slides up my spine".

Concept: Fantastic. I loved the concept of the story. MC matched with the original cupid and that's entirely against the rules.

Mythos: It felt like the author got the story to a certain point, ran out of ideas, and started plugging it with different mythical creatures for no real reason. The reason given at the end was not strong enough to support the characters. (Though I did like the minotaur.)

Romance: I completely don't get why she and Cupid fell for one another. There was no true romance arc that helped me see that. I spent most of the book thinking "Cal needs his own match' so the ending was a bit of a surprise.

For my ratings:

The performer wasn't bad. She wasn't great, in my opinion, but she kept the story flowing along and was able to do a half-decent job at character voices.

I couldn't give the story more than 2 stars...

So 3 stars for performance, 2 for story. Leaving 3 overall. Because it wasn't a rotten tale. I just had to keep forcing myself to listen to finish it.

With the concept being so good, I'm hoping the author continues to study her craft and strives to make each book better than the one before it.

This was amazing beyond words

I read this book when it first started out on Wattpad and I was so excited when I heard it was coming on audible and now it’s just so amazing and you just have to get it and read it it’s not a disappointment at all!!!!
LOVED LOVED LOVED IT!!

AMAZING!!

I loved it! It is an absolutely amazing story! Laurie Winkle reads it beautifully! I love how she changes her voice for each character!

love!!!

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lovely

it was very fun i enjoyed it! great book for teens and adults but i think its more aimed at teens :)

I loved it

I felt like the voice actor changed every chapter it got pretty frustrating to listen at some points but overall it was a very good book.

Beautifully written & engaging story!!!!!!!!

I'm so glad I did the Audiobook instead!!!! I have to hand it to the reader as I'm sure it wasn't an easy thing to try to add the audio to this story, especially the male characters. So Congratulations on a job well done & a great add to your portfolio & resume!!!! God Bless you guys!!!!!!!!