Never Date Your Brother's Best Friend

Never Date Series, Book 1

By: Jules Barnard

Narrated by: Meghan Styles

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.

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 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.

The title is misleading

The title is misleading because their dating is really a non-issue to the brother, who hasn't seen or talked to this "best-friend" since high-school, so hardly a bestie. Also, it's important to note that this is a New Adult book, but almost YA. It was well-written and professionally narrated and I liked some parts of the story, but it dragged on and on and on with pointless scenes. It could have been half the length. Also, the heroine is super immature despite on her way to Harvard Law School and in the beginning, she comes off very arrogant thinking her roommate will be happy if only she had the right guy. The hero though is another story, he was great, mature and such a caretaker. I stopped it at 3hrs left

Good chic lit, but

Then there were a few twists the last 2 hours that seemed.. to not fit, and weren’t needed.
Same for the sex scenes, hours of chic lit, then the last 2 hours have a few sex scenes? They seemed not needed and didn’t fit with how the rest was written, could have done the skim over version...
Otherwise it’d have been 4 stars..

So dramatic

The main character Cali was barely tolerable and I struggled to finish this book. Not sure I can handle another.

Meh for me

Storyline was overall way too obvious. The characters were shallow and the plot tried, unsuccessfully, to be complicated. Lots of tertiary characters that were never developed, yet had large plot roles. The narration was fantastic and it was a good listen for doing chores and basic stuff, but nothing that made me think “wow! Great book!” A nice beach listen…nothing too heavy here.

It’s a nope from me.

I struggled with all the drama in this. It seemed pretty juvenile. And the love between the characters went from 0-60 in 3 seconds. Too unrealistic for me.

Sort of a slow story line

The story seems to drag out. Parts of it are developed and then never explored so it was frustrating.

Cute but not outstanding

Well is a relatively original story, I liked the fact that there wasn’t much drama, the relationship had it’s problems but nothing too tiresome like in other novels of this genre. I didn’t like the fact that the main character was too hasty jumping into conclusions, when she could’ve just asked things like a mature person, instead creating drama and I’m kind of sore that quality was use to carry on with the story when maybe the author could’ve use real conflict. That’s why I gave the story three stars.

It’s okay

Storyline was super predictable. I’m sure the younger generation would enjoy it however for me not so much.

Great quick read

This is great light quick read! I Can’t wait to read the whole never date series!