The Fix Up by Kendall Ryan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
My tempting, and very alpha friend Sterling Quinn is someone I consider off-limits.
It’s not just that we’re friends, he’s also a cocky, confident, and British, which means he’s a walking aphrodisiac.
But lately he’s been giving me the look. You know the one. When he thinks I’m not paying attention, and his gaze lingers for too long.
And then we start working together, and that’s when the sexual tension between us gets so thick, I want to hack through it with a machete. I want to make all these deep feelings I’ve harbored for him disappear, because there’s no way this can end well.
The lines between business and pleasure become irrevocably blurred, and I’m stuck between a rock, and Sterling’s very, very hard place.
Rather than keep a level head about our growing attraction, Sterling wants to go all in, showing me just how explosive we can be together.
But I’ve been around long enough to know that this British bad boy is more than my heart can handle. I’m not about to be cast aside like yesterday’s underwear when he’s done having fun.
Sterling’s never been told no, and he’s not about to put his ego aside and play by my rules. But I never thought he’d fight so dirty.
The Fix Up
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The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙❤️💚🖤
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎
Character development: 😊😄😘🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration
The Hero: Sterling Quinn – he is a jaded divorce attorney and quite a playboy. He is British and lives in New York, so his accent helps him quite a bit in charming the ladies. When he finds that his great-grandfather on his mother’s side, whom he never met, had died, possibly leaving him a multi-million-dollar inheritance with the caveat that he gets married.
The heroine: Camryn Palmer – she is a PR executive, and an acquaintance of Sterling. She has seen him go through a string of ladies one after another. She is beautiful, driven and intelligent and sees right through Sterling, she sees him as a pompous player, and he sees her as one woman he can never have. They attended a wedding a few years back when he was the best man, and she was the maid of honor. They shared a few drinks and dances, but when he saw her wistfully looking at the bride and groom, Sterling knew she would never be for him.
The Story: Camryn is hired to help Sterling with his PR after his great-grandfather passed away and he has six months to get married in order to inherit more than 50 million dollars from the estate. She is in charge of coming up with and executing a plan that results in Sterling’s marriage within six months. She resents the fact that she has to play millionaire matchmaker, when her regular job is usually a bit more professional. Camryn’s last boyfriend left her with a mountain of debt, she is two months behind on her rent and needs the bonus money Sterling is promising for the job.
I liked the fact that though Sterling makes a good living as a lawyer, he lives in New York, which is really expensive and since his mother has early onset dementia and he takes care of her, he really wants that inheritance mostly so he can put her in a nicer place. Also, his feelings on marriage are not only due to him being a divorce lawyer, but due to the fact that his parents’ long marriage suddenly ended when his mother got sick, and his dad left her for greener pastures.
I also really liked the way that Sterling was so attracted to Camryn and wanted to get to know her even while still planning to go through with the marriage, since his mother’s condition is getting worse, and he really needs to get her into a better place that can look after her more. The relationship between Sterling and Camryn grows to more than they expect, though I do like how they take the time to learn about each other.
This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by John Lane and Ava Erickson. Ava is one of my favorite female narrators. She has a soft, feminine voice and is great at doing different voices for different characters. John Lane has a deep, gravelly voice and has a great British accent, so good, I can’t tell if it is real or not. So, he makes a great Sterling Quinn.
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