Narrator: Joel Leslie
Title: How To Bang A Billionaire
Publisher:Hachette Audio
Publication Date: January 16, 2018
Length: 11 hours
Reviewed by Morningstar
Synopsis
Rules are made to be broken....
If England had yearbooks, I'd probably be "Arden St. Ives: Man Least Likely to Set the World on Fire." So far, I haven't. I've no idea what I'm doing at Oxford, no idea what I'm going to do next and, until a week ago, I had no idea who Caspian Hart was. Turns out, he's brilliant, beautiful...oh yeah, and a billionaire.
It's impossible not to be captivated by someone like that. But Caspian Hart makes his own rules. And he has a lot of them. About when I can be with him. What I can do with him. And when he'll be through with me.
I'm good at doing what I'm told in the bedroom. The rest of the time, not so much. And now that Caspian's shown me glimpses of the man behind the billionaire I know it's him I want. Not his wealth, not his status. Him. Except that might be the one thing he doesn't have the power to give me.
Review
One thing I want to
say is that if there is a character with an accent Joel Leslie hits that nail
on the head every time!
This was my first book by Alexis Hall, and I was pleasantly surprised, but I really shouldn’t have been because people
have been telling for a long time that he is an
amazing writer. I loved Arden but then I’m typically drawn to the
awkward characters; but add in his ability to go off on funny little mental
tangents and flights of fancy, and I was in love. Although, one pet peeve was the long
bouts of internally monologuing for my tastes and since it was all from Arden’s
POV it became too much even in listening to the audiobook.
Caspian, on the
other hand, was no Arden. He was a bit of an ass but one I liked and one that
the author showed us with little glimpses of his true self that he might be a
good guy under all that detached attitude and emotional push back. The thing is,
Caspian is honest with Arden; he pulls no
punches when it comes to what he’s willing to give. We don’t know much about
his backstory by the end of this book, but
I suspect the next book will show us more.
A positive in the story was that the author was
excellent at giving crumbs to keep us engaged and wanting more. The characters
were complex, exciting, and funny. The prose was
magnificent and helped keep and pull
attention along throughout the story. Some of the events that happened were
confusing, but despite that, I was
stuck and wrapped up in the story.
Joel Leslie was the
icing on the cake for me. Or maybe he was the ingredients that helped pull this
all together because his characterizations and voices and inflections were spot
on and had me enveloped in this world.
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