Reviewed by Annika
TITLE: Spencer Cohen 
SERIES: Spencer Cohen #1
AUTHOR: N.R. Walker
NARRATOR: Joel Leslie
PUBLISHER: Tantor
RELEASE DATE: March 6, 2018
LENGTH: 5 hours, 26 minutes
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Spencer Cohen is the guy who gets answers to relationship questions. Playing the role of the new lover, his job is to make his client’s ex realise one of two things: he doesn’t want to break up or he really does. Either way, his client gets answers.
The ex would either apologize and beg, or turn and walk. But in the end, Spencer’s client won. If he wanted his ex back and got him, it was great. If the guy walked away, then as hard it was for the client, he knew it was over. Regardless of the outcome, Spencer’s work was done.
Andrew Landon’s ex left him without so much as an explanation. But his sister can’t stand to see him miserable, so, much to Andrew’s dismay, they hire Spencer to be Andrew’s new boyfriend to get the ex back.
For Spencer, it is never personal. Merely a business transaction. No emotions, no strings, no complications.
Yeah right.
Even a blind man could see how this would end.
REVIEW:
Listening to this book made me happy, it brought a smile to my face and it was just a low angst and a genuinely feel good novel. This was all that a great slow-burn romance should be, the tension the anticipation, the butterflies. I loved it all.
Spencer Cohen has an odd job to say the least. He pretends to be a new boyfriend to his clients in hopes to get the client back together with the ex. It really is the perfect job for someone afraid of getting truly close to people and being abandoned. But when he meets his new client, Andrew one rule after the other goes flying out the window. And he slowly realizes that being alone might not be what he truly wants after all. Too bad that Andrew is focused on getting back together with his ex-boyfriend…
This book was very, very low steam, and it just fit perfectly with what was going on. The focus was solely on Spencer and Andrew getting to know each other, dancing around each other. There was plenty of UST, and the longing they felt, it was just great. I loved to watch Spencer and Andrew form a genuine friendship and ultimately fall for each other. There was no unnecessary drama and it truly lives up to what we’ve come to expect from N.R. Walker.
Joel Leslie was brilliant as usual; he does accents like no one else and he always brings a lot of feeling to his books. There is a reason Leslie ends up on my top 5 list of narrators and listening to this book brings that point home. He always brings the books he narrates to life, brings the characters to life. He has a true talent for performing books and as always I’m in awe of his range.
This was a terrific start to a series and while it didn’t end in a cliffhanger per se, the story is far from over and I’m (im)patiently waiting for the next book to be released.
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