The Chemistry of Love

By: Sariah Wilson

Narrated by: Em Eldridge

True love requires a little research and development in a funny, heart-racing romance by Sariah Wilson, the bestselling author of The Paid Bridesmaid.

How can Anna Ellis, a geeky, brilliant, and hopelessly smitten cosmetic chemist possibly win over Craig Kimball, the man of her dreams—who also happens to be her boss? The answer is Craig’s empathetic (and handsome) CEO half brother, Marco. The makeup mogul knows Craig for the ridiculously competitive rival he is. Whatever Marco has, Craig wants. That can be Anna, if she’s game to play.

All Anna and Marco have to do is pretend they’re falling in love and let the rumors begin. If the experiment in attraction works, a jealous Craig will swoop in and give Anna her happily ever after—if it weren’t for one hitch in the plan. There’s more to Marco than meets the eye. With every fake date, Anna’s feelings are starting to become dizzyingly real.

Blame it on chemistry. It’s unpredictable, exciting, and occasionally combustible. If Anna and Marco are really falling in love, who are they to argue with science?

©2023 Kelly Siskind (P)2022 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved

Critic reviews

“With a very special appeal to fans of clean, wholesome, contemporary romantic comedy, The Chemistry of Love…is brilliantly narrated by the vocal storytelling skills of Em Eldridge.”—Midwest Book Review

“Abundant pop culture references and nerdy quips only enhance…This is utterly adorable.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“In this adorable romantic comedy, the fake dating trope is taken to another level with banter and nerdy references Anna and Marco throw around. Adding to the fun, Anna’s grandparents and their pet birds will have readers in stitches. A fresh and fun romance from Wilson.”—Library Journal

Not her best at all with robotic voices narrators

Worse narration. At first I thought it was AI.
This main character had to be mentally challenged to be this stupid.

She can do better, the author usually does.

One of the worst narrations I have ever heard

I stuck it through because it was a cute story combat but it was brutal at times listening to this horrible narrator.

Cute Story….narration could have been better

I was ready to delete this book after trying to listen to the first few chapters. The narration was so robotic and monotone. I pushed through and enjoyed the storyline. The narrator did not bring Sariah Wilson’s story alive as it should have.

4.5 Stars

This was so much fun and a great fake dating romance. I loved how this one started and how Anna and Marco meet. I loved seeing them come together. I also loved how innocent Anna was and how they both embraced each other and their inner nerd.

I loved Marco from the start!

Overall, this was shocked me as I was not expecting to love it as much as I did.

“I had a tendency to do that—to get fixated on something I wanted and if it didn’t go the way I’d planned it in my head, then I didn’t always cope so well with the outcome.”

Love the story and the audible

Just dont like female characters that are so insecure with themselves and always self depricating.

Loved the story but hard to listen to

The writing was fantastic and I was so engaged in the storyline that I actually finished the audiobook. But the narrator was not good at all. The narration was bland and boring.

Did NOT love the Narrator

The book was okay but pair it with the narrator and I struggled to listen to the entire book. The narrator’s tone was odd and her words were over-enunciated. Too bad.

Love this book

Love the story even though Anna could be quite exasperating at times! But loved her inspite of it. Loved Marco too. Funny , happy , love!

Another good listen from Sariah Wilson

I love Ms. Wilson’s audio books and was excited to download this new one. I am science-minded and married to a scientist so I thought the chemistry tie to the story was an interesting one. I gave 4-stars for Performance and for Overall due to the annoying “valley girl” inflections of the reader/performer and for a serious character name faux pas referenced from Ms. Wilson’s book, The Friend Zone. I blame the character name faux pas on the editor and the ARC readers. Ms. Wilson, herself, should have caught the faux pas when she proof-read her own writing. Auto-correct is NOT an author’s friend.

This will remain in my library and I do recommend this story.

Agree with Naomi

Narrator was awful. Voice rose on last word of every sentence. Very distracting. Story cute. Loved all the bird names and chemistry references

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