Simply adorable. This really is a love letter to the romance audio book reading experience and those talented authors and narrators and engineers who make our love of audio romances possible. It's a short little story, and usually that hurts my enjoyment of a book, but I really enjoyed this. This audio book is presented by an all-star cast of romance audio book narrators ... Andi Ardnt, Teddy Hamilton, Joe Arden, Erin Mallon, Shane East, Tanya Eby, and Emma Wilder. I am an Andi Ardnt mega-fan, and Shane East is probably my all-time favorite male narrator. I could listen to his smooth British accent narrate the phone book and be perfectly satisfied. Teddy Hamilton and Joe Arden also often appear as narrators in the romances I hear. Hearing these familiar voices in this story made it almost feel like coming home, and it helped to drive home the message of this book.
There were so many laugh out loud moments for me in this book, and that's not normal for me. It takes a lot to get me to laugh in a story, but this one made it happen. I loved that in this story the audio book obsession that Vera has and her love of her favorite male narrator's voice only served to enhance her real life love of her husband. I LOVED her husband, but I fully admit that it may be only because Shane East was the narrator for his voice. I loved the FUNNY scenes that illustrated the difficulties with finding ways to be intimate with little kids in the house. And I also loved the somewhat deeper scenes that showed the personalities and struggles of the people narrating these stories. It was also interesting to see an example of the type of people who write these steamy romances. And an added bonus was seeing the engineers who are behind the production of these stories but who rarely get any recognition. Simply said, this was a fun and lovely story that warmed my romance audio book loving heart.
An added bonus was the blooper chapter of mistakes made during the production of this book. LOVED IT! Seriously, they should include these with every audio book. So delightful, and it humanized the voices behind the audio book experience. I think I'll come back to this story every now and then when I want to feel like I'm not alone in this world when it comes to why I love these books. Four stars. I really liked this.