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The Way You Are
- Carolina Connections, Book 5
- Narrated by: Amanda Stribling, David Black
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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Summary
“They say nice guys always finish last. I say the only place that should apply is in the bedroom - it’s just good manners, after all.” (Brett MacKinnon, nice guy and frequent resident of the friend zone)
LIV: There are really only three things I need in life: sex, baseball, and winning. My hot boyfriend and season tickets take care of the first two, while I always do my best to cover the last. So developing an unexpected crush on a new friend is more than a little inconvenient. I don’t have anything but friendship to offer Brett, but with the way he looks at me, he has me wishing I did.
BRETT: I’ve been put in the friend zone so often, they’ve got a sandwich named after me. You’d think I’d be used to it by now. But when it comes to the delectable Liv, I’m determined to ditch the friend zone and show her I’m boyfriend material. Too bad the position’s already been filled by a ball-playing caveman who could flatten me with his pinky.
What will it take to show Liv that nice guys can be more than just friends, and that love is the one game truly worth winning?
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- Nina B.
- 09-05-20
Olivia (Liv) & Brett
I enjoyed this book and it’s characters. A lot of misunderstandings that makes it fun and interesting. Olivia cracks me up. These books are standalone but I think the characters show up in other books so I wish I would have started with one. The narration was great I recommend this book/series.
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- serenechaosnyc
- 23-02-20
Fun book for the series
Typically, I don’t like books where I perceive there is the potential for cheating. I was a little concerned based on the description. However, I really enjoyed the prior books and liked them so of course I was excited to receive the audiobook upon request to listen to.
I really liked Brett and Liv. The times they spent together were fantastic- full of great conversation and banter. They are both smart and successful and sweet to each other. I didn’t like that Liv was so negative about her then boyfriend, Troy and then, all we hear about their relationship is when they are intimate. So, I kind of wish that she ended the relationship faster. (This is likely not a spoiler given that, well, we need an HEA between Brett and Liv, right?).
In the end, i really liked the relationship as well as many of the supporting cast, many of whom we met in prior books. The author is doing such a good job building this world.
The narration was good. I liked both Amanda Stribling and David Black-they were cast perfectly and did a good job playing their parts and the other characters in the story.
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- Erin
- 03-11-21
Full of fun
Brett gets his awkward turn at falling. And it’s full of laughs, Great Dane slobbers and awkward moments.
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- Cathy Cay
- 06-02-22
Sweet story
This is such a sweet and satisfying story..
Although frustrating at times because man do these two get their wires crossed a lot..lol...A wonderful friends to lovers romance that I highly recommend.
Fabulously narrated by Amanda Stribling and David Black.
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- Siobhan D
- 02-01-21
A Great listen
Both Amanda Stribling and David Black, are great narrators.
This story has fun and drama.
Brett has always liked Liv and after a breakup with her boyfriend, she turns to friend . Then discovers his true
feelings. Between the misunderstanding you will find yourself laughing.
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- Joanna (Jo Reads Romance)
- 05-06-22
Second half makes up for the first
This is the 5th in the Carolina Connections series about a group of ever expanding friends and family. Brett has been mentioned or lightly featured in previous books but this is where he comes to the fore and gets his own story. This is complete with its own HEA and you don’t need to have read any of the previous books in the series.
Liv is brand new to the series so this is the first time we meet her - and she didn’t get off to the best start with me. At the start of the book she’s got a boyfriend - the hot but dim Troy. And boy does she bang on about how hot he was and how much she enjoyed sex with him. As she gets to know Brett, she’s still with her boyfriend despite him treating her quite poorly and still enjoys the sex. It was just a bit icky. There wasn’t really any cheating but I don’t like to read about either of our main couple with other people, and her actions and reasoning for staying with Troy made her appear vapid and shallow. I also didn’t like her cheering and jeering during the baseball games. It was embarrassing and classless - but that just might be my Britishness showing!
Liv’s character was made worse by the wonderfulness that is Brett. He’s such a sweetheart. He’s very much a nice, normal guy - a marketing exec with a normal body and a massive crush on the girl he can’t have. He was funny and cute, smart and sexy - I just adored him. And I felt bad for him that he couldn’t have fallen in love with a nicer gal.
I was feeling quite ambivalent about the love story until about half way through the book. At that point, Troy was out of the picture and it was all about Brett and Liv taking their friendship to the next level. That’s when the book really kicked off for me and I started to very much enjoy the story. A classic friends to lovers, slow burn romance.
As always with Sylvie Stewart, along with the love story we get such a rich story that’s always an absolute hoot. This bunch of friends - while appearing less so than in the first few books - are friendship goals. I laughed out loud, not just with them but with Brett and Liv, too. I know I can always rely on Ms Stewart’s stories to perk me up and raise my spirits.
The story is narrated by Amanda Stribling and David Black and both are very good in telling the story. I always do prefer when there’s a different voice actor for each different character - it really does help to build the story and get to know the characters.
I wouldn’t have missed this story as I make my way through the Carolina Connections series. It wasn’t my favourite of the series but luckily, the second half of the book definitely made up for the first. The audio was eminently listenable and if you are reading through the series, or like to read stories where the cast is more ethnically diverse (Liv is Asian) then I would recommend this book to you.
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- Dawn Fuhrman
- 20-05-20
friends to lovers
Brett is sitting, not so comfortably, in the friend zone. Liv knows Brett is always there for her. It was easy to see through out the story how much Liv relied on that friendship. Brett wants more than friends, but is respectful of Liv's choices. This makes Brett totally lovable. I fell hard for Brett and wanted Liv to see him more than just a friend. But sometimes the path to love is not always the straightest. That crooked path is within each word of this story. I could not get enough of these two. I found myself laughing so hard at times, I had to quiet myself from not waking anyone in the house. I cannot wait to read more of this series.
Amanda Stribling and David Black really bring this story to life. They make the characters become like friends and bring the reader into the story. Amanda is a great Liv. She narrates Liv exactly as I imagined her. I love David's narration of Brett the most. He really brings Brett to life. Through the friend zone regrets, to the desire for dating Liv, David brings out each emotion and makes Brett relatable and loveable. I easily got lost in their narration and could not stop listening until the end.
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- Whenwe
- 19-07-20
Out of the friend zone.
While I loved this story, I'm not a great fan of the narrators. They just didn't do it for me, but the book was still still enjoyable just the same.
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- Lisa Hahn
- 08-03-20
great listen
another great story I the caroline connections. I enjoyed the story of brett and liv.. friends to lovers.
the narrators nailed it.
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- chez
- 15-02-20
Enjoyable book
I enjoyed this book, however didn't feel I enjoyed it as much as some of the previous ones. It was great seeing the interlinking characters from this series again, really like that group, plus characters from another previous book, but the actual storyline seemed lacking in something compared to some of the other Carolina connections book. I personally didn't find it quite as humorous as a couple of the others either, but this may be because of my British sense of humour.
On its own without comparing it to others in this series it's still a great light and easy to listen to book that I still enjoyed.
The narration was clear and easy to listen to. I do struggle with the accent, but this is the same with most audible books and isn't reflective of the narration, rather myself not being from the US.
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