Friends without Benefits

Knitting in the City, Book 2

There are three things you need to know about Elizabeth Finney: 1) She suffers from severe sarcastic syndrome, especially when she's unnerved, 2) No one unnerves her like Nico Manganiello, and 3) She knows how to knit.

Elizabeth Finney is almost always right about everything: the musical merits of boy bands are undervalued by society, "benefits" with human Ken dolls are better without friendship, and the sun has set on her once-in-a-lifetime chance for true love. But when Elizabeth's plans for benefits without friendship are disarmed by the irritatingly charismatic and chauvinistic Nico Manganiello- her former nemesis- she finds herself struggling to maintain the electric fence around her heart while avoiding electrocution or, worse, falling in love.

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Devra Woodward was bad

Devra Woodward sounded like she couldn't care less about this story. The Italian accent was very over the top and exaggerated. Her overall reading was monotone and unenjoyable. It made this one of my least favorite books in an overall really good series. I hope that they re-record this like they did Dr Strange Beard. They redid that one and the new narrator was amazing! That is why I included the narrator's name. If it's a new narrator, then buy away! If not, then just read this one and skip the audible as it ruins the book.

Good book but too long

I enjoyed the book but it was way too long. This could have been finished in half the time. Probably would not read another book from this author because of the length.

See review book 1

I posted a long review of book one through four, attached to book one. I am just taking the time to note here that this is a series worth listening to. Both the author and the narrator are worthy of your time.

Cute with a good narration

Ms. Reid had really learned to cut filler, while it could be cut more, it is down 5 hours from the first in the series. Hopefully, her current writing is more concise, uses the correct words…as she does a lot of “let me kiss this guy”, and correct literary usage, e.g. obtain vs attain.

Her romance novels are either objective bad in so many ways it is 12 hours of cringe, or subjective god or bad in topic, style, etc. I hope to avoid anymore of the objectively bad across all areas novels. It’s one thing to not know, worse, to also have an editor who doesn’t know/care, incorrect word usage that pops up occasionally (nails on a chalk board) in a novel, at least she stuck to approximately the same 5 errors in this novel.

I understand that the editor doesn’t care, as the books aren’t published for critique, they are junk reading. Quickly written and produced romance novels are a whole box of Twinkies versus a balanced diet. Even when romance novelists try to add meat (any protein) to their novels, such as this author inserting a cause célèbre into nearly every novel, or as Janey would say 95%, with a 3% margin of error.

Nico

The story is great! However, Nico’s voice is so incredibly annoying. I’ve never witnessed a stand up comedian with a whiny yet monotone voice. It was hard to get through even though, as stated above, the story is great so I had to push through to the end.