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  • The Bartender and the Babies: A Friends to Lovers Romance

  • The Frat Boys Baby, Book 5
  • By: Aiden Bates, Austin Bates
  • Narrated by: Guy Veryzer
  • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)

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The Bartender and the Babies: A Friends to Lovers Romance

By: Aiden Bates, Austin Bates
Narrated by: Guy Veryzer
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Summary

Kurt
I faked being happy for years as a high-powered stock broker. Faking a relationship for a week can’t be that much harder. Course, pretending money and success was all I needed led directly to my breakdown, and lying on my mom’s couch is all I’ve been good at ever since. Maybe "faking it til I make it" isn’t a skill I should be putting on my resume. Assuming I ever get back to sending those out.

But one existential crisis at a time. First I need to survive my sister’s wedding with my sanity intact. And since that I fended off my mom’s matchmaking with claims of a nonexistent boyfriend...I need one of those.

It should probably surprise me how easily my mind turns to Evan, the gorgeous omega owner of the bar I like to drown my sorrows in. Or how easy he is to sell on the idea. Mostly, it just seems right. There’s a loneliness that clings to him like a shadow only I can see. Makes me think we’re kindred spirits. Maybe we can be lonely together. Maybe we can even be something more.

I should’ve expected he has problems of his own. That a screw-up is the last person who should be trying to save someone else. But I didn’t, and now I just hope we can save each other. Or else my fake relationship will end with very real consequences for us both.

Evan
I don’t know what drives me to keep my brother’s bar open after he dies. It was never my dream. And I’ve got no one left to prove anything to. But its the last piece I have of him, and I’m not ready to let go. Move on. Maybe that’s why I fight it when Kurt shakes up the limbo I’ve spent so long living in.

It's not like this relationship was supposed to be real. Yet I can tell he wants more. Trying to help with the bar. Wanting to be my rock. A new foundation. But I can’t let him. Because I can’t deal with losing my foundation again. If that means I have to be alone, so be it. My mind isn’t changed just because I end up pregnant. So why do I still hope Kurt finds a way to change it?

This 50,000-word novel about lives lost and loves found features mpreg, mental health issues, and a whole lot of sexual healing. Be 18 years of age and up when listening!

©2018 Shehan Peiris (P)2018 Shehan Peiris
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as good as the ebook

The story is always full stars, because if I wouldn't like the story as ebook, I wouldn't listen to the audiobook. I can't listen to an audiobook without knowing the book, that's not possible for me.

The performance from the narrator is also very important for me. I can't listen to a lot, because my English as a non-native-speaker isn't so perfect to follow a whole story over hours, when the narrator speaks too fast or too sloppy. Normally I have to SEE the person, who is talking to me in English. It took me a little bit, to come into the narrator, but at the end, it worked. I only have to take a few breaks between. I'm just not yet finish with the book, I’m over the half, but I listen enough to give a review.

PLEASE READ MY RATING SYSTEM!!!

To my ratings:

5* - very very good
it's like an A+

4* - very good and will be often re-listening
it's like an A

3* - it's more then a one-time-listening.
it's like a B

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good

these two brothers make me happy. i enjoy their work and this doesnt dissapoint.. the narrator kept it going and made you feel with the characters. overall a good story

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The billionaire and the bartender...

Kurt is more than just his stock. Evan, who doesn’t do relationships may have found his one. Kurt’s family seems special but I find his mother annoying. Too whiny... there are though some awesome characters like Theodore and Lucia. Nice love story.

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Brill

This is a brilliant book to listen to as we follow Kurt realise that there are important things than the stock market after he meets Evan.

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Pretense

When I listened to the other 4 books, I barely registered Kurt. My mistake. He is right out there with the others...full of personality and humour. He and Evan set the pages alight. What started out as pretense quickly became complicated for the workaholic and the commitment phobe, and their journey to happiness is a definite 5 star novel.

The swap from one POV to the other is again seamless due to the ability of the authors to write well together. Most of the secondary characters add to their story. I particularly loved Pyotr and Lucia, Kurt's mother and, of course, the other Frat Boys. The annoying sisters...not so much. I don't think they added the comic value they were perhaps supposed to.

I was in two minds about the narration by Guy Veryzer at first. Then his laid back style with the hint of humour really grew on me. He suits the story perfectly.

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brilliant

love it like the others... need more ! this one was my fave the narrator was perfect for the different accents!

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100% Enjoyable!

I always enjoy the books the Bates's write together and The Bartender and the Babies has all their best high points. Goofy family members, fun and silly dialogue, a wee bit of drama, and a perfect opposites attract/friends to lovers romance. 100% easy enjoyment.

Audio performed by Guy Veryzer who always does a good job. This is one wild and crazy cast of characters, and Veryzer clearly had a fantastic time finding voices for them all.

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