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The Introvert's Guide to Speed Dating

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I love this series! This is a great follow up to the first book which I liked. It’s another cute story from Hart that’s enjoyable.
Thank you, Emma Hart, Dreamscape and Netgalley for my copy. All opinions are my own.

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Unfortunately, not even the fact that this was super short could save it. Meeting the two MCs after they've already hooked up leaves a major part of the back story missing and it felt like we never really got to understand their relationship.

Narration: Dual narration. I've listened to and enjoyed both narrators before.

Thanks to Dreamscape Media and Netgalley for my copy to review.

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Colton and Tori’s story was fun and sexy. I love Emma Hart’s bookworm series - it was nice to see characters that I had read about previously! While they had been secretly sleeping together and acting around others as if they didn’t like each other, feelings started to change. This was a perfect beach read!

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I enjoyed the storyline more than the narrators.
It is a quick easy read with humor and longing. Not much spice but its a cute small town romance.

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First book from this author, and realized later it's the second book in the series, but it didn't exactly seem to effect my listen,. Honestly this felt half finished. I read some Goodreads reviews saying the print version was riddled wth typos, which I could understand seeing as the book just felt like it rushed when writing. It read more like the first half of a romance novel than an entire story. There was very little conflict to resolve, which definitely made the the HEA fall pretty flat.

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I really did like this series. I made it through, but it was a bit much. Characters and story were not the point at all; sex scenes were. If that's what you're looking for, you'll enjoy. I couldn't find an introvert anywhere.

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I really enjoyed this book. I didn't want it to end. I wanted to follow the characters a little longer to see how their lives turned out. It's always a good thing when a book is just too short.

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This was my first book by Emma Hart and I thought it was cute! And since it was my first book by her, I didn't know that it would be so wholesome. It was definitely a palate cleanser from all the steamy dark romance books I've been consuming lately.
I love stories about people finding love after heartbreak and/or divorce. One thing though, I thought the speed dating aspect could have been a bigger plot point since it is in the title of the book. Thank you for the audiobook.

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London Stuart is jumping back into the dating scene after four years of living the single life. She plans to do that by attempting speed dating. London is excited to speed date, that is until she is sitting across from her son's sexy British soccer coach, Oliver. The two hit it off, but Oliver is not quite sure he will even be staying in the country. The two have an attraction that is impossible to fight and they are not sure they even want to.

This series is fun and easy to get in to. I enjoyed the audio and narration. It flowed very easily.

Thanks to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media, LLC for an advanced audio version of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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This was a cute single mom romance from Emma Hart. Emma made London a strong female lead, a good role model, focused and driven. Oliver was a perfect male lead for her - he really was a sweet, romantic, helpful guy that feel in love not only with London, but with her son, Leo, as well.

This is not a steamy romance that lights your earphones on fire. It's a well-crafted romance that focuses on the development of all of the relationships, Oliver and London, London and Leo, and Leo and Oliver. It gives them all the time and care that we needed to see them all develop.

Narration by Avery Reid and Will Watt was fantastic. They're both such amazing voice actors. They really get to the emotion and the heart of the material and bring the characters and situations to life. I really feel that their narration enhanced the story.

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This was a really cute, quick read. I wish it had been longer. It pretty much ends as soon as they officially become a couple and I really would have liked to see more of the actual relationship instead of just the buildup. However, the buildup was done very well. I felt like the character development was natural and well-paced. I absolutely adored Oliver! Seeing him interact with Leo made my heart melt. I haven't read the first book in the series (though I may go back and do so) but I will definitely be reading the next one.

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it was a cute book, of course you knew how it would end up. Some storylines did not need to be there, but overall a good listen

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Cute, fun, quick book. London is a single mom, and like most single moms, focused almost exclusively on the needs of her son. After being burned by her son’s father, she was reticent to get back in the game. The story follows her journey into dating. The book was sweet and fun, albeit predictable. I appreciated the focus on the challenges of being a single parent dating; it felt plausible. I did feel The ending was rushed; I’d have liked more development of the relationship versus all the drama about “what if”. Even so, cute book I’m glad I’ve experienced and I’d consider others in the series. Great for those times you need a light read.

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I loved every moment of The Introvert's Guide to Speed Dating, book 2 in Emma Hart’s The Introvert's Guide series, which Avery Reid and Will Watt narrate. It's an adorably sweet, humorous, and sexy slow-burn romance that also happens to include another of my favorite tropes – friends-to-lovers – and does an excellent job of exploring that journey along with the difficulty of being a modern, single, working mom. Single mom, London Stuarts’ best friends and cousins, decide that it's time for her to get back out there and start dating again. Taking matters into their own hands, they sign her up for speed dating. It’s just her luck that one of her dates turns out to be her son’s British soccer coach Oliver Hayes, on whom she may have been crushing just a little. Told primarily from London’s first-person POV, with an alternating first-person POV from Oliver, which balances out the story nicely, each chapter begins with an Introverts Rule.

Journalist London has a lot of balls in the air, working full-time and raising her son on her own. She’s kind, generous, caring, funny, and introverted but always has a smile for everyone. A funny, handsome, hilarious, and sexy Brit who genuinely loves kids, particularly hers, Oliver is irresistible to London. Increasingly so, the more time they spend together as he offers to help her son Leo improve his game. Still, she’s not ready to accept he’s as good as he appears after the emotional scars from her relationship with her son’s father. Furthermore, the fact that Oliver may only be in the country for a brief time before returning to Britain means dating or getting involved with him is not a good idea for her son or for her heart.

Hart does a fantastic job of developing the characters and their relationships, both primary and secondary. The relationships between London and her son, London and Oliver, and Oliver and Leo are so adorable that I couldn’t stop smiling. London and Oliver’s romance develops slowly from friendship to romance in a sexy and sweet slow burn that is romantic and thoroughly satisfying. Their banter is humorous, sweet, and sexy and left me with a silly smile on my face as well. The development of the friendship and the romance between London and Oliver Hart deftly shows the evolution of the characters.

Narrators Avery Reid and Will Watt excellently voice the characters for this novel, using pitch, accents, dialect, and nuances to capture the characters’ personalities, emotions, quirks, and moods. You can hear the emotion in their voices – humor, desire, fear, excitement, etc., – in every scene, and it draws you right into the story and not only helps to bring the characters and the story to life, but it also makes you care about them and their journey. I loved Avery’s voices for Oliver and for her son especially. They were perfect. Will’s British accent was perfect as well, and I thought he wonderfully differentiated Oliver’s and Dylan’s British accents from Sebastian’s American.

I highly recommend The Introvert's Guide to Speed Dating to readers looking for a sweet, sexy, humorous slow-burn romance with sides of friends-to-lovers, single parent, and meddling friends and family.

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London is making it work. She has a 6 year old son who keeps her busy. An Ex husband, who she has a cordial relationship with. A job she enjoys, but with a boss she could live without. Her life changes when she is given the opportunity to write a special issue for her paper. An issue that could land her the promotion she needs. Her Ex steps in for the weekends to help with her son giving her time to do the project, a project that includes interviewing her sons sexy British soccer coach. Oh and she goes to speed dating events.

There was nothing wrong with this book. It was just not very exciting. London is an enjoyable character but I don't think Ollie's chapters add very much. The speed dating does not add a lot to the story either, its more about her article. The romance between the two main characters jumps from nothing to everyone seeing this great chemistry, but we as the reader don't feel it.

There was also very little tot he climax of the book. It had nothing to do with the plot and pacing of the book. I think its goal was to show that Ollie would be there for London, and that's a good thing to show but should not have been the final conflict before the resolution.

Overall, it was fine.

I was not a fan of the cover. The woman on the cover does not represent the character well. She feels too young and superficial to represent the main character who is a boss lady with her stuff together.

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Quick and easy listen. London was a single mom. She's stretched thin after landing a new project at work. Oliver is the soccer coach for London's son. This seems to bring London and Oliver together and they start to enjoy each other's company. But will Oliver stay in the US? He's missing his family in the UK. This is a super quick story and the relationship develops achingly slow. The narration was great!

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I thought this was a cute read. I liked London and Oliver a lot. I liked the nosy/busybody family members. I found their issues in the book to be plausible. A good single mom romance.

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This is a very sweet clean romance that focuses on a single mom starting over after a rather unpleasant divorce. Finding her way both professionally and romantically is a fun read. This makes you believe that good things happen to good people. Thank you for the opportunity to review this audiobook.

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This one was just plain FUN! London is a single mom and her cousins and friends are tired of her being single and sign her up for speed dating. She is all for it until her son's soccer coach sits down across from her. Oliver is tall, dark and sexy with a British accent to go with it. They break all the speed dating rules but no worries they take it outside. Soon Oliver is over for dinner every night and giving her son private lessons but is he staying in the country. Did I say FUN, definitely!

**Received this ARC for review in audio from the publisher via NetGalley**

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3.5 stars. This was a well-written story with compelling characters.
The storyline is about a single mom who is hesitant to start dating again because she feels as though her son should come first. She humors her family and friends by speed dating.
The title of this book doesn't really match the story. She does speed date but it is such a small part of the story that it felt a bit gimmicky.
I enjoyed seeing her come around to try dating her son's soccer coach who is a British hottie. It is a slow-burn but if you are looking for any action, then this isn't the story for you. It's very much on the cleaner side. The narration for this audiobook was very good.

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