VIP Series#2
Audiobook, Storytel
Author: Kristen Callihan
Narrators: Rupert Channing and Charlotte North
We met Scottie (Gabriel Scott) in Idol. He’s the buttoned-up, kinda scary but oh-so-hot manager of Kill John. Everything always has to be done his way and he does always get his way. Until he boards the plane to London and finds that there is this “chatty girl” on the seat beside his – a seat he paid for so that he would surely be alone for the flight. The flight is full, nothing can be done and he sees himself attached to the hip basically to Sophie Darling, who apparently can’t shut up. Flying is his personal nightmare and it has just become exponentially worse. What he didn’t count on was that Sophie Darling would be the perfect partner… not only for this flight, but for his life…
I absolutely LOVED this one! Scottie is so grumpy and so buttoned-up and when he completely relaxes around Sophie it’s so so sweet! He clearly suffers from anxiety and Sophie is his safe place and it’s swoony.
There are the obvious conflicts (one major wrench is thrown when we finally find out that Sophie has a convoluted connection to the band, but it is resolved in a surprising way) and there is the common miscommunication problem, but it just makes the story more exciting.
Sophie and Gabriel (yes, she calls him that to everyone’s shock and surprise) are a new favorite couple! The banter is amazing as Sophie doesn’t take any crap from Scottie!
Narration: new narrators to me, but I loved them! It must have been particularly hard to narrate this one because they have to switch back and forth to American and British accents all the time. Charlotte even throws in a southern accent for Libby, which I missed in book 1. Well done!
This is book 2 but it can definitely read as a standalone.
(A little PS about the cover: that eighties hairstyle on the male model is cringeworthy… seriously. Scottie wouldn’t be caught dead with this hair like that. It’s like a member of Duran Duran dressed up to go to a funeral. Oy…)
Possible triggers: the hero suffers from anxiety and severe insomnia. He deals with it sometimes by engaging and illegal fights, so expect a little violence mentioned. Mentions of a suicide attempt and its repercussions. Mentions of alcoholism.
