Disorderly Conduct

The Academy

By: Tessa Bailey

Narrated by: Samantha Cook, Alexander Cendese

You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone…

Police academy cadet Charlie Burns can’t believe his luck when the gorgeous blonde he meets in a bar murmurs those magic words: “Nothing serious, ’kay?” Mind-blowing, no-strings sex with Ever Carmichael—it’s the holy grail of hookups for a guy who’s too busy following in his law enforcement family’s footsteps to think about getting serious. Charlie’s all about casual…that is, until Ever calls it quits and his world tilts on its axis.

Ever knows that when you control the relationship game, you can’t get played. But for the first time, she wants more than short-term satisfaction. Step one: end her fling with commitment-phobic Charlie. Step two: sacrifice herself to the ruthless NYC dating scene. Yet everywhere she turns, there’s Charlie, being his ridiculously charming self. No online match or blind date compares to the criminally hot cop-in-training, but they’re over. Aren’t they?

If love is a four-letter-word, why does the idea of Ever seeing someone else tie Charlie up in knots? Now he’s desperate to win her back…and a little date sabotage never hurt anyone, right?

Five-Hilarious-Stars

Seriously, Tessa Bailey can do no wrong in my eyes. If there is a trigger I don’t care for, I still read her books - she has some kind of magic with her writing. Thoroughly enjoyed this one!

Honestly, not my favorite from Tessa Bailey

I've now read and listened to many Tessa Bailey books and have thoroughly enjoyed all of them so far... Until this one. this one almost made it to my DNF pile. First, the male voice actor is HORRIBLE. Like, one of the worst I've ever listened to. His attempt at a female voice was nasaly and sounded more like he was making fun of women. It was awful. The story would have been better read completely by the female voice actor. Secondly, the plot itself was so-so at best. Two players that are secret commitment phobes suddenly fall hard for each other? That's normally a plot I love. I think it was the male character that I mostly didn't feel. He supposedly fell in love with her before he got to know anything about her at all, other than she was a fantastic fit for him in bed. Then he sabatoges all her attempts at dating for real. Personally, it was horrible. Now, it did get better at the end, which is why I gave it 3 stars. By the end, the male lead turned into an okay dude and the female lead made him work a bit for it. So, I'll be listening to book 2 still, but book 1 was not my favorite by Tessa Bailey.

Hot and steamy!

Loved this story and these characters! There was a lot that had me laughing out loud and quite a few scenes that had me fanning myself. Tessa Bailey sure knows how to write a good steamy scene. Fantastic narration! I can't wait for more books in this series!

Alone

No one wants to be alone. Knowing this early in life is good. At a certain time in life all you want is to settle down

nothing but the truth

the ending was kinda corny. Charley was a bit too clueless and the person reading his part was a bit too over the top with his character. I liked the story.