Zora Books Her Happy Ever After

By: Taj McCoy

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

“McCoy Doesn’t miss a romantic beat in her swoonworthy sophomore rom-com.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

A heart-pounding, curvy romance about an indie bookstore owner who finds herself in a love triangle when she meets the author she's had a crush on for years...and his best friend.

Zora has committed every inch of her life to establishing her thriving DC bookstore, making it into a pillar of the community, and she just hasn’t had time for romance. But when a mystery author she’s been crushing on for years agrees to have an event at her store, she starts to rethink her priorities. Lawrence is every bit as charming as she imagined, even if his understanding of his own books seems just a bit shallow. When he asks her out after his reading, she’s almost elated enough to forget about the grumpy guy who sat next to her making snide comments all evening. Apparently the grouch is Lawrence’s best friend, Reid, but she can’t imagine what kind of friendship that must be. They couldn’t be more different.

But as she starts seeing Lawrence, and spending more and more time with Reid, Zora finds first impressions can be deceiving. Reid is smart and thoughtful—he’s also interested. After years of avoiding dating, she suddenly has two handsome men competing for her affection. But even as she struggles to choose between them, she can’t shake the feeling that they’re both hiding something—a mystery she’s determined to solve before she can find her HEA.

©2023 Taj McCoy (P)2023 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited

Worth the listen and the credit

This romance had everything it needed. Conflict, misunderstanding, not one but two desirable men and of course the women who is smart, successful, curvy, and well read.

Phenomenal!!!

Hi loved every bit of this. The narrator has always was great, Taj, McCoy, as always is superb.

The storyline

It was an okay storyline. The hard part was the person doing the voiceover. The voice was sort of annoying.

Returned It

Zora is a pain in the Ass. They both should have run from a relationship with her. A legal contract that says you cant talk about some IS NOT A LIE.

The title had me intrigued

Story line was okay. But Zora didn’t do it for me. Started off good then in the middle it went blah. Might be better for a young adult

Deliciously Good!

Great story. Fun characters. Colorfully written, so you can envision the scenes. Delicious descriptions of food..and a happy ending. #LovedIt

Cute and sexy read

Loved the character development and how the story progressed. And we all need a best friend like Emma

Good Story

i enjoyed this story for the most part. I struggled most with the narration. I couldn't always identify the different characters. The younger women sounded very similar and for the male characters. I couldn't really tell them apart. The story was well written. I am really interested in the authors future works.

Not quite there

I really wanted to like this one, but just couldn’t. The repetitive narrative made things feel over done and hitting the reader over the head with information which is supposed to be a part of the mystery being worked out.

Additionally, I had difficulty with the African/natural black beauty taking over descriptions over and over. Instead of including the details as a part of daily life and worked in what could have been descriptions of the life, it seemed more like it was shoehorned in wherever possible to emphasize what everyone who purchased the book could see/read on the cover.

Finally, the men’s dialogue and the reader’s voices for the men were laughably stereotyped and came across as satire in many instances. Similar to rest of the book, a more nuanced touch to the writing and the reading could have made the characters more real.

Loved It!!

This story was very relatable, juicy, and detailed. I was able to easy follow along and picture the entire book. Great love story.