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“This is a rom-com by Alexis Hall. A lot of his books are sort of whimsical and silly, which is one thing that I like about him. This one has a sort of ridiculous premise. A man who is the manager of a bed and bath store suffers an accident and ends up recovering at his boss’s house. And he decides to fake amnesia, because he’s worried about his boss firing all of his employees. His boss is this very crabby, not very nice, man. So the story, of course, is that he recovers at his boss’s house and they end up falling in love. It’s very tropey. If you’re familiar with romance—I love romance—for romance readers the book hits a lot of really fun tropes. They start out hating each other and then they spend these weeks in this house together and the employee, Sam, realizes that his boss is not really who he thought he was. It’s a very charming, fun, pretty light-hearted romance. The narrator, Will Watt, does a great job. I’m not from the UK, so I can’t say how accurate they are, but he does a lot of different regional accents. There’s a pretty big cast of characters—the love interest, Jonathan, has a really big family and they get some time in the book. Then there are all the coworkers who have their own personalities. The narrator does a great job of bringing all those characters to life.” Read more...
Laura Sackton, Journalist
