SO SWEET, FUNNY AND HOT!!!

Any additional comments?

This was a really good listen. Of course the narration was excellent and the story was just so seeet. It is not as predictable as I thought it would be and was such a loving cute story I ALMOST cried. Highly Enjoyable.

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A rating overall...

My Review:
Overall: 4.75
Performance: 4.75
Story: 4.5

I adore second chance at love stories and this was an absolutely fantastic one. Hayes and Saylor were high school lovers. Then he got an opportunity for his big break in Hollywood, and he left...without ever looking back at the girl he left behind brokenhearted. He did make it huge and she dealt with her heartbreak as best she could...mainly by falling for the wrong guy afterwards. But after 6 years with the wrong guy, she finally wised up and broke it off with her fiance. The problem...the ex-fiance has a very powerful family in this small town and they're ruining the business in this small town.

Now to add insult to injury, they sent her an invite to the wedding she planned, but with someone else as the bride. Saylor isn't heartbroken, but she's hurt and doesn't know how to deal with this man and his family who so obviously want to rub her nose in his new happiness. Her older brother (who's still best friends with Hayes) thinks the ultimate revenge would be to show up at the destination wedding with a much better man on her arm showing that she's moved up in the world, so he calls in a favor to Hayes, the now mega-movie star who still has a soft spot in his heart for the girl he left behind.

There was so much to love about this book, but I think my favorite was Saylor herself. She's just trying to save her bakery, Sweet Cheeks, that she loves so much. I love the dichotomy of how much the ex-fiance hated that about her vs. how much Hayes helps her embrace her love for all things cupcakes, including randomly having frosting in her hair. Hayes has made some epic mistakes with her and other parts of his life, but he's such a good guy and the two of them together are pure magic. There's no denying that they are truly soulmates who just lost their way. I love them together and how much Hayes' love for her makes her so much stronger. She's already a confident woman, but Hayes' belief in her is everything.

Note: I listened to this on audio although I have the book in print, too. (Um, hello...did you see that cover? It's worth having in print just to drool over all the pretty that is that cover.) There are dual narrators for this based upon the back and forth male/female pov. I love it when audiobooks are done that way and these two narrators are absolutely top-notch. I loved both of them and how they did both their male and female voices. I thought their styles matched perfectly and seamlessly. It was a GREAT audiobook for a great book! I highly recommend it.

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If At First You Don't Like It, Try, Try Again...

....If It Doesn't Get Any Better - Quit! No Point In Wasting Time!

Honestly, I tried to like this story. I started, and stopped it several times since November 2016, and just couldn't get into it. Today, I thought I give it one more fresh shot and only managed to listen 30 minutes. I'm throwing in the towel, and moving this audio to my DNF pile. It's another second chance love story, but the plot, characters, and dialogue just didn't capture or hold my attention. I've managed to listened to over 50% and a large portion of that was dialogue driven. The dialogue was flat and uninteresting. I'm definitely in the minority, but glad others Audible members enjoyed Sweet Cheeks. Sadly, this one just wasn't for me.

The narration was great, but unfortunately even Andi Ardnt and Sebastian York couldn't pull me into the story.

How do you rate a story you don't finish? I didn't hate it, but at the same time I was completly uninterested with the plot and characters. Overall rating three stars for being meh...

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✫✫ 4 Stars ✫✫

This story was super SWEET!!! I love a second chance romance! It is such a nice change from all the insta-love I am always reading. I really enjoy a story where you feel the love and lust from the beginning. Saylor and Hayes grew up together and I loved that because they have so much history, there was no need for them to really get to know each other, even after all those years. I really enjoyed how creative Hayes is with his action. The narration was perfect...how could it not be with Andi and Sebastian!

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I gave this audiobook an A-/B+ 4 narration/story!

I gave this audiobook an A- for the narration and a B+ for the story at AudioGals.

Narration by Andi Arndt and Sebastian York

Sweet Cheeks gives a unique spin to a story that romance listeners have no doubt heard before: the second chance at love trope. The interesting twist is that Ms. Bromberg splices and dices this trope with a couple of other contemporary romance tropes (the movie star with a small town girl and the jealousy inspiring “plus one” date to the former fiancée’s wedding to another woman) and adds her own clever touches (grudge cupcakes and Hollywood antics) to make the story sound fresh and new. Further complimenting this fun, romantic tale is the splendid dual narration by Andi Arndt and Sebastian York.

Saylor Rodgers recently broke up with her fiancé whom she dated for a number of years but never felt a close connection to. Now she is single and dealing with a struggling cupcake business that she runs along with her brother. With her ex’s deep roots to the small California town they live in, it seems that post break-up, all her former friends have sided with her ex-fiancé and his country-club mom, and will not dare set a toe in her bakery shop for fear of the social backlash.

Meanwhile, as if this weren’t enough to deal with, Saylor also receives an invitation to her former fiancé’s wedding – a near carbon copy event to the one she and he had been planning (even at the same resort destination), except now it’s to another woman who could be her twin. What’s a girl to do? While contemplating the answer, the response gets inadvertently mailed (with a “plus one” designation) and her brother insists that the solution to the whole mess – including ameliorating their present black list status among their town’s socialites – is for Saylor to attend the wedding with a man who commands even more social/star power than her ex. Now who could that possibly be? Fortunately for Saylor, her brother knows just the man: his best friend, Hayes Whitley, who is now a huge movie star. Only one catch with this agenda – Hayes broke Saylor’s heart a long time ago when he left without a word to pursue his dreams. Can the man who broke her heart so many years ago possibly be the answer to her present calamity, never mind lead to a HEA?

So ensues a series of comical and heat-filled events that include a Hollywood diva who doesn’t take well to Hayes escorting Saylor to the wedding, a small town gossip lover’s dream as wedding guests become privy to the social event of the year, and then a protracted social media battle in which “grudge cupcakes” and their healing powers become the latest and most fashionable trend!

See the full review at AudioGals.

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love this

Would you consider the audio edition of Sweet Cheeks to be better than the print version?

It is nice to read the book and also hear the narration. The narration gives the characters in the book voices. So I find it nice when I can both get the book and the narration.

What did you like best about this story?

All the gifts he sends her.

Which scene was your favorite?

wedding scene

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I wanted to hear it one sitting but couldn't.

Any additional comments?

I love Andi and Sebastian, they make a great team.

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Cheesy dialogue, basic plot, not that hot

So many times while listening to this book I said out loud "UGH who actually talks like this?" Or I just cringed. The story was basic and full of stereotypes like "big strong dominant man", "vapid Hollywood celebrity" and "mean rich snob" that were incredibly two dimensional. I saw good reviews and wanted a fun escape story but with dialogue and characters like this it's hard to escape. That being said, I thought the narrators had nice voices and did a solid job with the material.

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I really wanted to like this...

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

I don't know because from the comments, a ridiculous amount of people loved it! I went into the story with excitement and high expectations. Maybe that is why it's such a let down.

What could K. Bromberg have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

I don't think there is something the author could do to this book to change my mind. It would be a completely different book.

What does Andi Arndt and Sebastian York bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Their narration is the only reason I was able to finish the book. They are amazing.

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

I love a happy ending...

Any additional comments?

It was very hard to have patience with the main characters and the situations they put themselves in. The story tried to be charming but it fell short most of the time. There was an unnecessary amount of things that happened to the main character that are never explained or the author just puts out there but never addresses them. The ridiculous mood swings from the main character gave me whiplash and I to stop listening at several points in the story to be able to continue. I don't mean for this review to be harsh and I got this book expecting to love it. So much potential.

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UNIMPRESSED

This book has all the ingredients of a great story--good narrators, a storyline with potential, a seriously HOT book cover! :-) But it fell totally flat for me. It was like a bad mashup and just never piqued my interest fully. The situations throughout the story kind of dragged on annoyingly with unnecessary angst, and contemplation, or the drama was just not an interesting direction for the story. Usually Sebastian York is awesome, but even his delicious voice couldn't salvage this story and these characters. The best part was the last hour, which was very cute and interesting. I can't put my finger on it, and maybe it will resonate with other listeners but, I could've been listening to paint dry and that would be the equivalent of me listening to this story unfold.

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Sweet like Sugar

If you could sum up Sweet Cheeks in three words, what would they be?

Sweet, cute, predictable

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

The most interesting aspect of the story was what kept me listening, there was a subplot that I had to know what happened. Of course the main characters were cute with their rekindling romance and the push and pull, but I really wanted to know what would happen with the ex fiancé.

The least interesting was just that is was predictable and I felt like I have heard this story many times. There was nothing about the characters that made me love them or care what happened to them.

What about Andi Arndt and Sebastian York ’s performance did you like?

Andi and SebYo are solid. They always are and it made the book just that much better.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Of course an HEA always gets me in the ticker.

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