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Love by the Numbers

By: Karin Kallmaker
Narrated by: Abby Craden
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As a behavioral scientist, Professor Nicole Hathaway's work strips away the foolish mystique that surrounds the human mating dance. When her academic tome is treated as a viral "love manual", her ecstatic publisher books her to appear all over the US and Europe. Worse yet, her quiet, managed life has been shattered by a series of incompetent assistants. And she's certain this Lily Smith creature isn't going to be any less a burden than the last assistant they sent her. Or the one before that. Or before that....

Lillian Linden-Smith needs this job. With a relentless TV lawyer and public mob still out for her blood for crimes committed by her "American royalty" parents, getting out of the country is her only hope for anonymity. If that means cleaning up and presenting an antisocial know-it-all PhD for bookstores, clubs, and lectures, fine. Dr. Hathaway may have succeeded in driving away all the others, but not this time.

From their first meeting the sparks fly, and each is thinking: She has no idea who she's dealing with.

©2013 Karin Kallmaker (P)2021 Tantor Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance

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I liked the story as it was a bit less straight-forward than these books often are. Abby Craden is a good narrator in general and was good here too, but as other's have written, the accents are far from good. There were two women who I think were supposed to be British who sounded Australian, to then sound like fictionalized British people. Her French pronunciation is a bit better. Perhaps it would have been easier if she just stuck with a more neutral or American accent for English-speaking people? The portrayal of an Indian family at the start was a bit stereotypical for someone who has been to India, but that was such a small part that I wouldn't have cared much except that it was the first impression.

Good story, less good accents

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slow burning start that builds the story and the characters lovely, but the narration is superb as all ways brilliant

Not by the numbers

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This is a very familiar listen. I enjoyed it but glad it was a free plus catalogue audiobook. The much lauded narrator did her usual job, I find however that her lack of ability to mix up her characters voices a disappointment, although at least Nicole identified as Butch so for once the voice matched the character ! I do not listen to two back to back AC audios because its difficult to separate the characters and therefore the books, her British accents are awful (nobody talks like that )! I found the story was rushed towards the end as if the author had ran out of time ?
To some up , worth a listen because it is free !

Familiar 'listen'....

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I didn’t want it to end!! Very easy listen and nice to hear characters develop

Heart warming

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I don’t really think people should be given the job to read a book if they are unable to do the accents needed! There are various English accents in this and all are delivered in a weird, tinny and unintelligible ‘English’- & I’m English so I should be able to understand all English accents!! And one was even Welsh apparently but it sounded just like the Cockney and other generic tinny awful ones - bemusing and also we don’t say ‘beaut’ in England unless it’s by an Aussie - or someone who lived there! 🤷‍♀️it’s really is ruining a story I’m glad they’re soon off to France but what’s that going to sound like?! 🙈😆 such a shame.

Awful English accents

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This tells a sweet story of how a walled off professor has her barriers chipped away.
Abby Craden is an excellent narrator though her foreign (to America) accents are less than stellar. If you accept that going in and don’t expect a Welsh etc accent you can continue to enjoy her narration otherwise you will struggle.

Barrier dismantling

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I've read some less than flattering reviews of this book. But I really liked it.

Both women fall for each other, while working together and trying to maintain professional and personal boundaries (neither realises the other is a lesbian). I think it did a great job showing how people compartmentalise pieces of themselves.

One...kind of massive point to be critiqued for me. I listened to this book. One narrator for dual POV is almost always horrible. In the case of this book...I don't disagree. I wish the book had been double cast. Even though the narrator did a pretty great job making the two characters voices distinct it just wasn't different enough for my taste.

Wonderful

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Enjoyed the characters and story for the most part. However the sex scenes were over so fast it was like they didn't matter, but considering how much the characters TALKED and THOUGHT about sex you'd think more time would be put into the scenes. The ending was so rushed it was crap, and also super weird.

Rushed ending

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Over all this is a good story by KK and there are some very nice touches but parts of it drag. IMO it would be greatly improved if edited to 2/3 of the length. There are too many passages crammed with unnecessary detail that do not enhance the story and and too many long descriptions that become boring.

AC may as well be reading a shopping list at times. She narrates much of this book in a very unengaged manner and with a bored tone. Unfortunately AC often makes the text difficult to understand by breaking up or rushing sentences and paragraphs. She does improve her reading for the final third of the book but perhaps that is because the end is in sight.

Narrator makes this worse than it should be

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I gave up after 6 hours when I realized there was still almost 3 hours left in the story and I really did not care if the main characters actually did get together.

The two of them were together as constant companions for weeks obsessing over a mutual attraction and not knowing they were on the same page? what on earth did they talk about???

A good performance by Abbey Craden although her attempt at the London characters was very Mary Poppins.

Pedestrian

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