Never Date Your Brother's Best Friend

Never Date Series, Book 1

By: Jules Barnard

Narrated by: Meghan Styles

Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins

Publisher's Summary

My plan was perfect. My friend needed a date, and my brother's best friend was single. Problem solved.

Until I saw Jaeger for the first time in years, and sparks flew in the wrong direction.

Jaeger has grown up and bulked up. But that shouldn't matter because I have the perfect life. Really.

Only, my plans are beginning to unravel, and now, visions of Jaeger's hard abs, broad shoulders, and intense green eyes fill my head.

I should hold back in case my friend is interested. Or in case of a million other reasons. But if Jaeger isn't willing to play by the rules, I don't think I can, either.

"Addictive and marvelously refreshing." (Rumpled Sheets Blog)

"Realistic characters and smart writing." (Lauren Layne, USA Today best-selling author)

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Never Date Your Brother's Best Friend is the first book in the Never Date series, which features sexy romance and humorous, feel-good happily ever after. This book can be enjoyed as a stand-alone novel, or it can be listened to as a part of the Never Date series.

Previously titled Off Limits (Men of Lake Tahoe, Book 1) 

©2014 Jules Barnard (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

Cute but very problematic in various ways

The beginning storyline was cute but it began to drag on after the author repeatedly added new plots when the book could have already finished. It would have been better if it was a little shorter and she had used other plots in a separate book.

Secondly, there is a large amount of content surrounding sexual abuse. Two women and two men are sexually attacked. Then the people who attacked them never received any punishment. The women just pushed aside their valid feelings about being almost raped and never told any authorities about it when it would have made sense for them to do that. If you are sensitive to that topic, I would listen with caution because that topic is repeatedly brought up.

First book of 250+ I truly struggled to finish

If you are over 25 in my opinion you are too old for this book. I out loud groaned and eye rolled more times than I can count. The supposedly smart lead woman is immature, unbearably dramatic and jumps to the very worst conclusions on the flimsiness of "evidence". The lead was so completely insufferable that I truly struggled to finish the book. I wish I could say it got better. I was going to continue in the series, but I don't have that many eye rolls in me.

Tween drama set in post-college setting

I found the story very superficial and slow-moving. The narrator contributed to that with her over-the-top characterizations; if I wanted to listen to something like this I would hang out with middle schoolers.

Young adult romance

This one wasn’t my cup of tea, but that’s not the authors fault. It’s a well written young adult romance about figuring out your adult life before heading to graduate school.

Say Names Correctly PLEASE!

The narrator mispronounces the name Jaeger a million times and it’s driving me crazy. She say JAY-ger instead of YAY-ger. I cannot listen to the rest of the book...you can’t be in love with someone you’ve know forever AND NEVER LEARN TO SAY THEIR NAME PROPERLY. It would be like someone repeatedly calling Jose JOE -say every other sentence.

Great story!

Younger crowed but, still a great story with great writing. Narrator is spot on. Wish they had more of a dual story but, I can't wait to see how it progresses.

Engaging Story For Me

I enjoyed the story. The narrator brought the characters to life for me. The story held my interest from the beginning. Love this author's work.

For the review that said it’s Yayger. I get what you are saying but….

Jaeger Pronunciation of Jaeger as a boys' name is pronounced JAY-ger. It is of German origin, and the meaning of Jaeger is "hunter". The similar sounding Jagur, a biblical place name, is an Aramaic name meaning "heap of stones; marker".

great story

I loved it . just the right amount of drama, but show that love can be stronger.

Fun semi steamy rom com

Cali is about to start a great summer. It's the summer before she is about to embark on her new exciting journey in graduate school at Harvard law school. She has taken a summer job at a casino with her best friend Gen. Though she and her boyfriend of two years will be apart, they know they're going to make it work. Cali has a mission that she's working for. Matching up her single best friend with an amazing guy. Right off the bat she meets a couple potentials. One of which, includes her brothers best friend from high school, Jaeger. He's amazingly good looking, sweet, kind and caring, and was on the way to the Olympics before his injury to which resulted in not only his abrupt leave from the sport but losing his long term girlfriend as well. That means he is fair game. What more could a girl ask for? It's a no brainer, right? That is until he and Cali start to spend more time together. Their friendship quickly escalates leaving Cali in an awkward position. Suddenly things start to fall to pieces. She hasn't heard from Eric much at all, things go south unexpectedly at the casino, and she's second guessing her plans to attend Harvard in the fall. Can Cali pull herself together and get things figured out?
I read this book in audio version. I really enjoyed listening to this book. It was a really fun book. The narrator did a pretty good job and there was some twists in the story line that kept it going. There was even a few steamy moments in the book. All in all it was a pretty good book. I rate this ⭐⭐⭐⭐.

A must Listen.

Loved it. Can not wait to listen to the rest. This series is definitely captivating.

Couldn't finish

The MC was super annoying. She's supposed to be smart, but instead of talking to the people around her she just makes assumption after assumption and takes it out on her friends.
She whined about everything and I just couldn't listen to it anymore.

Good easy book

Easy listening to teeny book

No angst really but steady and pleasant listening to

Boring

Kept waiting for something exciting to happen. I nearly gave up half way through , I wish I had!

Starts off good?

Takes a very weird turn towards the end, throws a bunch of unnecessary plots at you in the final few chapters. The name of the book has barely anything to do with it, boyfriend is not brothers best friend, and he doesn't really care when they start dating. When introducing a villain towards the end of the book (out of literally nowhere) the author uses a lot of classist and overused tropes to get you to hate this character, it just comes off childish.

Fun, romantic froth

This is bubble gum, light romantic feel-good fiction. The title’s are misleading but that’s a moot point. If you listen you’re doing so knowing you’re getting a very particular type of undemanding, escapist fiction with likeable characters, fairly thin plots but nonetheless enough to keep one absorbed and enjoying the listen.
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