The Plus One

By: Natasha West

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Dress? £200. Shoes? £60. The perfect date? Priceless... Charlie Black has found the one. And this time it’s for real. Not like the last time. Or the time before that. Or the time before that… And now she’s going to parade the one in front of everyone at her sister’s upcoming wedding. She wants to prove that her new girlfriend Lucy is special. She’s going to show everyone she can make it work. Especially her judgmental sister Maddie, Bride-Zilla herself. But a few weeks before the wedding, Charlie gets dumped. Again. And she can’t face the humiliation of going to Maddie’s wedding stag. Not after loudly and repeatedly telling her family that this one is different. She needs a date to the wedding and fast. Maybe she could get someone to go with her, but how the hell is she supposed to convince anyone to pretend to be Lucy, her very serious girlfriend of four months? It’s too humiliating. But the wedding creeps closer and closer, with no obvious solution in sight. Then Charlie happens across a website. ‘Rent-a-Date. It's just the thing Charlie needs to save her from the embarrassment of admitting that her sister was right again. That’s one wedding gift Charlie refuses to give her. So after booking herself a date from the company, she’s guaranteed that a hot woman will show up to the wedding with enough knowledge to pretend to be the real Lucy, at least for the length of the big day. But when Charlie turns up at the church, her date has a surprise in store…

My first audible

seemingly good detail. As this was my first audible ever. a good narrative, maybe better with different voices for different people, but that may have changed the narrative a little.

Summer Camp and 1st Love

Amy is the queen snob of the high school. Charlie is the dork you don't pay attention to. that is until you both wind up in summer camp together. But then it's back to reality and Amy goes back to being the queen snob.

Who knew that 11 years later they would bump into each other again. Amy has always felt sad about how she treated Charlie, and Charlie has a lot of anger due to having her heart broken.

There is some sex that happens in the book, but nothing steamy.

Of course virtual voice takes away a star, due to the reading of the story.

hate the virtual voice but loved the story

I love the story line. Short and sweet! I just wish vurtual voice wasn't a thing. It just ruined the flow.

I don’t care for virtual voice

The virtual voice takes way too much from the story. I read the book a couple years ago really enjoyed it, but that doesn’t come through when listening to it by virtual voice.

AI isn’t a great narrator

While I enjoyed the story itself, the AI narration really hurt the experience. Such a flat affect no matter what was happening in the story as well as strangely pronounced words and pauses. A real person would have brought this story to life much better.