Drew & Fable story is heartwrenching, but I loved!

Marshmallow! Seriously, that's all I can say after that ending! I wasn't sure what to expect when I started One Week Girlfriend but the crazy twists, secrets and romance made me unable to stop listening.This book is intense, gritty, emotional and at times completely devastating! But it’s also a beautiful story about two lost souls finding each other, and I absolutely loved it! The beginning sucked me in, Drew and Fable both needed each other in ways they didn't even imagine. The characters Drew and Fable are both damaged and have a troubled past. Drew is a hunky football player with a lot of secrets. Fable is townie who works at a local bar to provide for her 13 year old brother & alcoholic mother. When Drew offers her a larger check to pretend to be his girlfriend during a week-long trip home for Thanksgiving, she agrees. What starts out as a fake relationship slowly turns into romance.This story was twisted, torturous while also portraying a true romantic love story! Drew and Fable had some major HOT chemistry!!! There are many twists in this book, many of which you can predict fairly early in the story. Regardless, I still enjoyed this book. I am really looking forward to the next part of Drew and Fable's story. I believe this book would be categorized under the "New Adult Romance" genre.

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very disappointed

male narrator sounds way to old for a 21 year old. The story wasn't very exciting either needless to say I won't be reading the rest of the series.

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This story though

This was a unique and twisted romance that starts out very much Pretty Woman... It even references how close the storyline follows. But after twists and unexpected turns, this story holds its own in every way.

Kate Rudd and Luke Daniels happen to be 2 of my favorite Brilliance Audio performers and that was actually the only reason I started this audiobook in the first place. Their performance didn't disappoint.

Can't wait to start the next in the series.

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Sexy & Dark

I’m still pretty new to audios with more than one narrator. One Week Girlfriend is narrated by Kate Rudd and Luke Daniels. With the story switching between the two main characters’ (Fable and Drew) point of views the narration switches. Kate Rudd narrates for Fable’s POV and Luke Daniels for Drew’s POV. But both narrators do both characters’ voices. This is where it was different for me.

Kate Rudd’s narration was very good for both Fable and Drew. She really pulls of the male voice while making Fable sound very different and feminine. Honestly I would have enjoyed the narration with just her as the narrator not to say that I didn’t enjoy Luke Daniel’s narration.

Luke Daniel has a great masculine voice but with Drew only being 21 I felt like his voice was too old sounding for the character and his female voices had me laughing at first. But then I got use to them and thought a man with that deep of a voice can only do female voices so well and he did do an ok job with them.

Over all I enjoyed the narration job of both narrators and I’m interested in seeing how the narration for the second book, Second Chance Boyfriend goes since there is a third narrator. Ok enough about the narration let’s move on to my thoughts of the plot.

Why did I purchase the audio for One Week Girlfriend? I received the 2nd book for review on audio and I wasn’t about to start the series there. Also I’ve been looking for more contemporary romances to enjoy and One Week Girlfriend has been getting some great ratings by other bloggers I follow so I thought why not give it a try.

The story is about Drew a college student at a small university that’s the football star. It’s Thanksgiving break and he doesn’t want to go home to visit his dad and stepmother. So he gets the idea to ask the pretty girl who works at a local bar to be his girlfriend for the week, Pretty Woman style. He pays her for the week, not for sex but just to play his girlfriend so that he has a buffer between him and his family.

Fable the bar waitress is a townie and the same age as Drew (21) but she doesn’t attend college because she doesn’t have the money. She may only be 21 but she is the only thing keeping her family together. Her mother is a drunk that moves from one lousy boyfriend to another so that leaves Fable being the mother to her 13-year-old brother, Owen.

Fable agrees to Drew’s crazy plan because she needs the money he offers to pay her for the week but she has no idea what she is getting herself into.

Just when Fable thinks her family is messed up she gets a look into Drew’s dark family past and it breaks her heart. Drew is so damaged from his past that Fable wants no needs to help him and the two end up falling in love with each other by the time their week is up. But because Drew has a ton of stuff to work through he is always pushing Fable away.

One Week Girlfriend is not a sweet and happy romance and don’t read it thinking you will get a HEA. BUT there is hope for a HEA later with the couple and I’m hoping they get it in the 2nd book, Second Chance Boyfriend which I will be starting very soon on audio so look for that review coming soon.

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loved it!

loved the story, I also enjoyed both narrators but the male narrator made Drew'!a dad sound like a frail old man.

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A Charming Young Love Story

One Week Girlfriend is flirty and fun in some moments and then serious and emotional in others. Both characters are struggling and lean on one another. And while there's no HEA, readers can see it coming in the next book. The secondary characters add to the depth but aren't terribly likable - they do explain a lot about Drew and Fable.

One Week Girlfriend is dual narrated with the story switching between the two main characters’ points of view. I liked the concept but what was confusing is hearing both of them do the other's voice during dialogue. For the most part, I enjoyed the narration - it was just that one little glitch for me.

I plan to read Second Chance Boyfriend soon because a love story just isn't a love story without that HEA.

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What was all the fuss about?

I went in knowing this was New Adult, that it was about couples aged between 20 and 25. No prob with that. My gripe is that the teenaged characters that appear in some of the romances or romantic suspense I normally read come across with more character strength and attractiveness than these two MCs. Drew is a good-looking quarterback but sounds like a dweeb no girl would be caught dating.

Luke Daniel made Drew Callahan's father sound like a feeble old lady. I don't understand why Mr Callahan was given such a high, quavery voice. Instead of the successful businessman who made his money in the world of finance, he sounded like an elderly spinster aunt. Daniel's voice is lovely so it's so strange that he chose to make the elder Callahan sound the way he did.

Anyway, this turned out to be a dud for me and the genre will go the way Chick Lit and Women's Fiction did for me.

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Save your money

What would have made One Week Girlfriend better?

The description sounded great - but I couldn't listen and I tried several times. It was so bad I could've listen long enough to decide if it was the story or performance.

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Surprisingly good

Would you listen to One Week Girlfriend again? Why?

Yes, it was a good story. Not my typical read. More YA to me, but I liked how the story finally unfolded. While the series continued however, I was disappointed how the book ended. It felt incomplete.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Drew. Because he was sweet and caring and vulnerable. Which made him likable. Even when he was a jerk.

Have you listened to any of Kate Rudd and Luke Daniels ’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I've not heard Kate's but I do like her. I read the book based on the fact I love Luke Daniels from the Iron Druid chronicles

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very real heartache & love story

this was more than just a romantic story but a flawed individual & another who feels flawed & unjustly judged come to life & thaw out of their personal frozen hells to come alive. I would have liked an ending or an epilogue that connects these to the others but still a great story. the ending was more romantic.