Cocky Bastard

Damn this was disappointing. Because starting off good and then sucking hard is worse in my book than just being outright bad.This was an audio and the first half was actually a fun road trip-sex romp that had me smiling, kind of like those rom-coms that you know are going to turn sappy in the last half hour but you watch anyway because “what else is there to do on Saturday afternoon?” I wish that were the case!!! The story falls apart in the second half and it's made all the worse by an awful narrator. The first half was a fun, funny and sexy story of a girl, Aubrey, driving out to California from Chicago to start over after breaking up with a cheating boyfriend. As preordained by the Romance Gods she meets a hot, irreverent, ex-soccer player who also happens to be an Aussie i.e. sexy accent. Things happen and they become road trip companions going thru all the stages from hostility, getting to know each other and the stop in Vegas where sexiness ensues. As I said, fun. Though you can see all this, save one fun surprise the fainting goat coming from a mile away it's done deftly and charmingly and has a very pleasing narration by [a:Michelle Ferguson 5309723 Michelle Ferguson https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1323465364p2/5309723.jpg] However the second half seems to be a whole other book about an occasionally dirty mouth doormat trying to regain the love of of a woman who is at best a two-timer or at worse ... I won't say. But maybe I exaggerate and this is because the second half is narrated by [a:Aaron Abano 8332914 Aaron Abano https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] and My God HE IS AWFUL. He makes Chance sound like some 50 year old pervert and the women's voices are some kind mockery of Miss Adelaide in “Guys and Dolls”. The way the story proceeded in the second half already had me yawning but Mr. Albano's narration managed to push my “meh” to “I hate this”.* Maybe you could get more enjoyment out of this by reading it on your own. Skip the audio because you'll start out happy and will then want to smash your listening device.*