very poor story lines and character development

lazy writing,: did not develop characters bonding during "stop over" they just "danced and laughed", neither protagonists had any friends - female doesn't speak with anyone back home (except her mum) for 4 months! when experiencing "worst time of her life" female protagonist doesnt ring her mum for support. Major flaws in story: if he was worth $5Billion then he would not be flying commercial on more than one occasion. 3/4 into book there was mention of a corporate jet but never why he didn't take it. If she always wanted to work for that company she would have researched the CEO etc (esp. considering she is a journalist!) and know what they look like. Unrealistic workplace scenarios: on the top floor only two CEO/Execs work there with a receptionist who is also their PA. When all the crap was going on - where is the Manager/HR who would have got involved. What happened to Ava character - just disappears. what happened about 'fake news" ? Topics in conversations werent resolved - babies? I feel like it's a first draft and the editor should have told author to go back and include more characters and realistic story lines . and why does the narrator whisper so much?? such a bad effort in writing with predictable endings.

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Repetitive

The writing was repetitive. The same conversations happened and then copy and pasted sections. Not great character development and sudden love is just not good enough. Have returned.

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Hot, Heavy and

this book has really drawn me to TL Swan as a story teller.
this book has everything. her talent to show the romance in this book comes from a genuine place, the care she started to show to him and when we started to soften really drew you into the book.
cj bloom did an amazing job narrating both characters. I really feel there wasn't much need for Sebastian York to narrate in this book.

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enjoyed :-)

enjoyed the “Stop over” looking forward to the rest of the miles high serious :-) a cute, found my self laughing nd smiling. A good light read!

Loved it

Couldn’t stop listening, had the headphones in and listening while working around the house. Awesome.

Loving, Passionate and HILARIOUS!!!

I have never laughed so hard in a book. I have laughing tears just thinking about Jay in the camping scene (page 308 onwards) because it has to be the FUNNIEST THING I HAVE EVER READ, I read it 3 times because I couldn’t help myself. (The bus scenes was also hilarious) I thoroughly enjoyed every part of this book, the story line, all the characters but mostly at how much it made me laugh throughout.

I’m so looking forward to the rest in the series, I hope they live up the hype as the bar has already been set high!!! 🫣😂

Join the Miles High Club

Full of great moments this story is a wonderful romance. Both narrators do a smashing job to bring the story to life.
Yes it’s corny but it’s a romance we want corny. Yes it’s sexy who wouldn’t want to be Jamison Miles’s FB 😂. Enjoy!

Honest review here.

Honestly, I persevered with this story throughout just to hear Sebastian York's narration. Yeah...yeah, huge fan here and unashamedly so!

I want to say CJ Bloom did a good job with her narration, but in all honesty, I found her voice to be loud, whiny, irritating and grating...like running fingernails down a chalkboard type of grating. I know the character of Emily was angry most of the time but the performance was over the top in my opinion. I also found myself questioning parts of Emily's inner thoughts to that of actual dialogue. Which was which? I had to press pause a few times to think on it a bit. Not good when you're trying to relax at the end of a busy day.

And while I'm at it, a 50/50 narration split between male and female narrators, noting each chapter with a character would have been ideal. I would have simply skipped straight to Mr York's narration when bits got irritating.

Spoiler Alert: Skip this part if you haven't listed to the story yet.
The camping chapter was funny but it was a shame Mr York's voice wasn't utilised to fully describe Jamieson's reaction before, during and after the disastrous yet funny camping trip. The story really picked up for me from that point.

Another Spoiler Alert: Skip this bit if you haven't listened to this story yet.
Besides Gabriel getting the crap beaten out of him...yay Jim/Jamieson, what happened to The Gazette? Were there any repercussions for Gabriel and the Ferraro family and their story stealing? I must have nodded off during that crucial part.

With all that said, I'm always here to cheer on and support a fellow Aussie, so great story T.L. Swan (Mount Kosciuszko tipped me off). But with almost 13 hours of narration, I felt parts of this story was repetitive and could have been condensed.

Overall: I gave 3 stars
Performance: 5 stars for Sebastian York (totally biased rating for sure)
Story: 3 stars

Did this stop me from purchasing another T.L. Swan audiobook? The short answer is 'no'. The Do-Over is already sitting in my library so while I'm a bit hesitant, let's just see how things go.

🎶baby don't you seeee, he's toxicccc

4.5/5 🌶

overall, entertaining and fun but the romance was quiet toxic so I'd say it can be a bit touch and go at times in terms of "that's endearing" vs "that's toxic" so make your own judgement on that... plus the fem character was cringy at a few points but it did give the romcom vibes so it hit the spot

audiobook format is the best way to consume this I think because the narration is quite fun - great to listen to on a long drive!

▪︎ one night stand turned love
▪︎ workplace romance
▪︎ rich guy average girl
▪︎ spiceeeehhh

Loved it!!

I loved this book!! The story line was passionate, funny, and at times heartbreaking. Again the narrators were on form bringing the story to life.

I wished there was a bit more length to the ending with the HEA part but still swoon worthy none the less.