Hacker in Love

By: Lauren Rowe

Narrated by: John Lane, Lily Reynolds

Secrets. Everybody’s got ‘em, including me. Especially me.

The difference is mine will never be revealed, whereas I can easily get yours, assuming the price offered by your enemy is right and the scales of justice appeal to my personal standards of ethics. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. The thing that’s not so easy for a shy guy like me? Finding Ms. Right and locking her down.

Speaking of Ms. Right, the very night I was set up with Hannah Milliken by our mutual friend, I knew I’d one day kneel before her with a ring in hand. Hannah’s the kind of girl who’ll gleefully dance like a gorilla with me in the coolest nightclub or belt out a karaoke duet from Grease like her very life depends on it. She’s gorgeous, too. Funny and smart. And she even wears librarian glasses. See? Perfect.

I don’t doubt Hannah’s the one for me. Indubitably, she is. I only wonder how a dork like me could possibly land a goddess like her.

Unfortunately, when catastrophe strikes, all my questions are rendered moot. Now that Hannah knows the truth about me not actually working in cybersecurity—as well as the questionable things I’ve done to win her over—will I lose my dream girl forever, or is there still a chance for us to chase our happily ever after?

Hacker in Love is a steamy, funny, heart-pounding, standalone contemporary romance with a whole lot of feels, laughs, spice, and swoons by USA Today and internationally best-selling romance author Lauren Rowe.

©2023 Lauren Rowe (P)2023 Lauren Rowe

Not the Best

I hate saying this but this one was hard to listen to. I actually skipped parts to get to the end. The story itself wasn’t as engaging to me and narration fell flat. Other books the narrators brought the characters to life and there was so much emotion. In this one I felt like someone was just reading to me with little variation in tone between emotions and characters. I love the world LR has created but this book was just ok.

So much fun

Walking around listening to this I realized I had a wide smile on my face the whole time. This was just delightful. Great banter, fun and unique characters, swoony romance. I also enjoyed the fan service of all the characters from Rowe’s previous series (you wouldn’t have to know those stories to appreciate their presence, it just made it that much richer). This was light fare but also had enough grounding to give it substance. Just a thoroughly enjoyable listen and well worth the credit I spent on it.

Good Story - Loved Hen (Hannah not so much!

I love this series. I really liked Hen and how raw and honest about who he is and how he recognizes his quirkiness. Hannah, I started out liking but the more the story went, I really started disliking her. She was so suspicious of Hen and seemed to be looking for ways to stop the relationship and blame it on Hen. She wanted to be the victim so bad and used a great guy to do that. gag. She was quirky and that is what I liked in the beginning as how she and Hen were so compatible. She blames him for mistrust but really, she is the one who was so full of miss-trust. I was rooting for Hen to fire back and say that to her, that's how mad I was at her. Physically yelling at her as I was listening to her rhetoric. Really felt sorry for Hen at this part of the story. I like the characters of this series and Hen is and will remain one of my favorite characters but Hannah, not so much. What a hypocrite. I have to admit it makes me hesitant to read the rest and just be satisfied with who I know and their stories to this point.

Hannah is bananas

Omg Hannah has got to be the most annoying and nosy FMC in all of history. This story has the makings of being the cutest story. I get that every romance story has to have some sort of obstacle but seriously the way the FMC reacts and is so obtuse to what the MMC actually does. How do you simultaneously think it’s cute and honorable to sometimes hack sites for your friends to help them out but all of a sudden calling him an actual hacker somehow makes it terrible and deceptive.

Also for all her talk, she is super nosy and eavesdrops on people’s convos but because she’s doing it, that’s ok. I pretty much cannot finish this story on account of how annoying she is. I just feel let down that another female character with glimpses of independence and smarts is once again painted into this needy and irrational person. Reed was probably my favorite character and probably the most rational. Henny was a good guy but kind of condescending.

could have been

Could have been better. I liked the other stories so looking for more, I found this. The story was just soapy and lacking. The female narrator gave Hannah a panicked sound. The male narrator was better even when he did the female voice... The story was just not for me