Pay-per-Heart

By: Grace McGinty

Narrated by: Brooke Daniels, Grayson Owens

Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

I moved out to LA to participate in a Graphic Design scholarship that turned out to be fake. That was just my luck. But there was no way I could return home. Not to the already disappointed faces of my parents, who have never believed that ‘fiddling around on your computer’ was an actual career.

Not back to my friends who thought I was insane for breaking up with my long-term boyfriend to move out here in the first place.

Not back to Georgia, full stop.

So when I saw an advert in the creative pages for a graphic design and video editing job with three social media influencers–room and board included–it seemed too good to be true. It had to be a skeezy porn director trawling for new 'models', right? But I was desperate and I was willing to try anything.

Turns out, I was half right.

They were social media influencers alright, but for ClickHeart, a subscription service where… well… they got naked. A lot. Sure, sometimes Everett cooked (naked) and Harrison did pottery (naked) but Darwin literally just stroked his ginormous–Well, you get the point. After their previous video editor uploaded their stuff to The Hub without their permission, the guys had decided it was necessary to have their own live-in designer. But they wanted a guy. Not a girl who was deceptively named Blake.

It might have been an accident that they invited me to their place for an interview, but they were the stepping stone I needed to stay in LA and finally achieve my dreams. I just had to get real cool with a lot of things real fast. Should be fine, right?

This Why Choose romance is filled with funny moments, unexpected feels and perfect for those who hate love triangles.

©2023 Grace McGinty (P)2023 Grace McGinty

Light and Fluffy Reverse Harem

I read this in ebook version and raced over to pick up the audiobook as well so I could listen to it again at work. It's such a lighthearted and fun read. The FMC takes a chance to better her life and moves to a new city, only for everything to go in a completely unexpected direction. The romantic tension that builds between the fmc and the guys is fun and the spicy scenes are hot and well-timed - there's plot alongside the spice and mild drama with the FMC's ex boyfriend, but nothing too serious.

My only downside with the audio version is I feel like the male narrator didn't distinguish between the 4 love interests' voices enough. He did a great job overall, and I get that it's probably difficult to do four main characters, but at least one of the MCs should have been very distinct and he just blended in with the other voices. I had a hard time keeping track of who was speaking in some of the scenes since they all sounded very similar. The female narrator was amazing.

Overall, I'm glad I also got the audio version, it will probably be a repeat listen for me.

All the feels

I read this story when it first came to KU. Loved it then so I HAD to get the audible version! I was not disappointed. Both the narrators were great & gave more depth to a fun, funny, heart warming & hot story. As I said… all the feels!

Grayson Owens and Why Choose ? Yes Please!

his is crazy."
"Yeah. But not one ever achieved something great by doing what's normal."

Our FMC takes a job as a graphic artist with three 'Click Heart " page personalities. Someone to promote their social media and as an assistant to anything else they needed.
Grayson Owens did a great job doing different accents and personalities for all the men, I immediately buy anything he is in, but it would have been better as it was duet narration with four male characters to have a different man play each. It just adds to the listener experience. Plus Grayson is better with the darker characters His growly velvet voice is just perfection. Brooke Daniels was new to me as a narrator and I hope I come across another book these two team up on! They made scenes funny, and animated and enhanced the characters.

For why choose this book would be a great first experience in this genre. The spice scenes gradually builds, there is one on one experiences with each character, but there isn't anything beyond a 4-chili pepper scene.

I also would have liked this story fleshed out more. I think if the author added another 100 pages or so we could have more chemistry that built between the characters.
I became invested and suddenly it was almost over.
It was a little too long to be a novella, but I just wanted more.

4 Stars for Narration performance.
3.5 overall stars.


Tropes:
Why choose romance ✔️
Found family ✔️
Plus size FMC ✔️
10 inch pierced 🍆✔️
➢ Boss-Employees
➢ Famous-MMCs (Only Fans) Darwin, Everett (chef) and Harrison potery
➢ Rich-MMCs Even Hennie with his food truck added in as an afterthought was a good character.
➢ Roommates (Forced Proximity?)
➢ Sex-Worker-MMCs