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All Access Series #3

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Author: Evie Mitchell 

Narrators: Natalie Naudus and Liam DiCosimo

Thanks, Evie and Must Love Audio for the advanced copies. 

The All Access Series has been a favorite of mine and I was waiting (rather impatiently LOL) for Mai and Theo’s story and Evie delivered! It’s hard to write a convincing best friends to lovers story and Evie managed to take us through this perfect journey of two friends figuring out that “it’s always been you”. 

Mai is a a fashion designer who suffers from high anxiety. Theo has been her best friend for quite a while and her biggest cheerleader. So when he sees there is a reality TV competition for up and coming designers, he signs her up. Well, he hasn’t read the fine print – it’s for couples, so it’s only fair that he joins her, pretending to be her partner. What if he can’t sew to save his life?

Being there for each other, having to deal with the pesky “one bed” situation, they will find out that they mean more to each other that they thought…

I loved loved loved this one! Theo is an adorable golden retriever who loves Mai’s cakes and will do anything for her (and for anyone he loves). Mai adorably shy (not with Theo!) and you want to hug her and be her friend. The text convos are a hoot and their relationship (and how it turns into more) is the stuff of swoons!

I loved the audiobook! Natalie Naudus is perfectly cast as Mai, conveying all of Mai’s feeling and vulnerabilities flawlessly. Liam DiCosimo is lovely as the adorable Theo. Kudos also to how “accessible” the audiobook is. It’s very easy sometimes to get lost while listening, but every text convo is marked as such, every picture is described. Perfection!

I can’t wait to go back to Capricorn Cove and spend more time with this lovely group of people!

Representation: bisexual MC, amputee, anxiety, Asian MC (Japanese), demisexual MC

Content notes: references to medical issues, anxiety and mental health, difficult familial relations, bullying, financial issues, references to drug and alcohol abuse, references to a car crash resulting in loss of limb