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    Love in Due Time
    Audiobook10 hours

    Love in Due Time

    Written by Smartypants Romance and L.B. Dunbar

    Narrated by Chris Brinkley and Beth Tucker

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    About this audiobook

    Naomi Winters will be forty—soon-ish—and she’s only been with one man. One night. One time. Long ago. She believes everything happens for a reason, and the universe spoke about Nathan Ryder.

    Nathan Ryder isn’t the same man who hightailed his bike out of Green Valley eighteen years ago. As a rule breaker, women are one area he acts a fool. Case in point…the local librarian. He can’t get a read on her, but she’s one risk he’s willing to take. Again.

    What do an eccentric librarian and a sexy silver biker have in common? More than you think.

    The due date on their love might not be expired after all.

    'Love in Due Time' is a full-length, contemporary romantic comedy, can be read as a standalone, and is book#1 in the Green Valley Library series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSmartypants Romance Audio
    Release dateOct 22, 2019
    ISBN9781987194906
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    Love in Due Time
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    Smartypants Romance

    Penny Reid's Smartypants Romance represents the collective authorship of all books published as part of Author Penny Reid's expanded (fictional) universe. The inaugural launch took place in Fall 2019 and new titles are released every six months. Worlds include: Green Valley World (the Winston Brothers series), Seduction in the City World (the Knitting in the City series), and Educated Romance World (the Hypothesis series). For more information, please visit https://smartypantsromance.com/.

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    • 5/5
      Really enjoyed the love story of Naomi and Nathan. It is a cute love story of lost and finding your way back to destiny.
    • 3/5
      First, let me say, I LOVE what Penny Reid has created with Smartypants Romance. I enjoy her books so much, but the fact that she has opened her fictional universes as a means to mentor and publish indie authors gives me so much respect for her.

      Realizing this is essentially a fan fiction, I don’t expect the quality to equal the caliber of Penny Reid’s writing. The overall concept of the story is good and the characters are likable. The setting, interactions with original characters, and general feel of the story flowed smoothly into an extension of the Green Valley universe. The author stayed true to Ms. Reid’s style, introducing characters trying to overcome conflicting past traumas that could be the downfall of their relationship. She also followed the pattern of having a lead character with a complex, interesting, or unusual trait as a means to educate the reader. Unfortunately, the integration into the storyline felt forced and just off. The other major issue I had was the believability of the female lead’s backstory. I suppose it’s feasible, but seems extremely far fetched.

      I listened to the audiobook, rather than reading. The male narration was done by Chris Brinkley, who is the beloved voice of the Winston Brothers. He is fantastic, as always, with his warm, familiar Southern drawl. The female narrator was a very unfortunate choice and I had to fight the temptation not to finish the book because of it. She narrated like a teacher or librarian reading a book aloud to a group of kids, rather than as a voice actor. It was difficult to stay in the story when she was reading and I looked forward to Chris taking over. It may be that the problems I had with the story were actually the fault of the narration. I would have found the book much more enjoyable with better narration.
    • 3/5
      I’m a huge fan of Chris Brinkley, which kept me going. The female narrator has a great voice and accent, but for the most part she’s just reading and not acting. This detracts from the story for me.
    • 2/5
      I got to chapter 20 before I gave up on this audio book. Reagan Boggs narrates the female lead but she sounds like she's reading a cue card, not preforming a role. The female lead is written as being childish and inexperienced, and that coupled with Boggs's wooden narration makes the sex scenes super cringey. Would not recommend.
    • 4/5
      It's OK Chris Brinkley makes it the female made it a harder story to follow
    • 5/5
      Such a beautiful quirky love story - two souls seperated but is it the universe that brings them back full circle
    • 5/5
      Great story, I loved it. Love how the book highlights issues with religions outside of Christianity and how being different often results in the ignorance of people. The only thing that I had a hard time with finishing this audio book was the female narrator, could have used someone better.
    • 2/5
      Love the male narrator but the female was awful! I had to listen to her at super speed to make it through her chapters. She talked slow and her Nathan voice was terrible.
      Then there was the issues with the story line. This book could have been half as long if the “conflict” was not drug out for so long. Naomi talks about being honest and open but hides things. Nathan wants her buts does not want to push. And no one wanted to talk about what happened….
      Skip this one and read the others in the Green Valley series.

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    • 3/5
      Chris Brinkley, as usual, is fantastic. The story was pretty nice, although some parts seemed forced. The female narrator needs some work, and it was truly hard to listen to when she was reading.

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    • 3/5
      This book was good enough. It kept my interest for the most part, and as the book progressed, I got more invested. I really liked the male protagonist. I was not sure that I would, but I found that I kept listening because I was involved in his story. The female protagonist, Naomi, was... okay. She was smart and a little sassy, but she kept saying things like, "I wasn't very good at that, was I?" and it started to grate on my nerves. Her Wiccan faith was a part of her character, I get it, but it was also overdone. That being said, she was likable and relatable. The real killer for me, however, was the female narrator. She read very slowly, and it sounded like her accent was what you would hear when someone was making fun of a southerner-- slow and stumbling-- especially when she was voicing Nathan. It was distracting and somewhat unpleasant. I found myself wishing that Chris Brinkley had narrated the whole book.

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    • 2/5
      I'm disappointed that the author mixed up Pagan life views with Christian guilt trips- if you are going to put spiritual beliefs in a storyline you have to do your homework. I found this so irritating I couldn't finish it, which was disappointing as I've enjoyed other Green Valley storylines.