A story that kept me awake until finished

I loved the way the story developed and kept me captivated from start to finish. Am looking forward to more from same author. Thank you 🙏 🙏🙏

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Great for those who like tennis!

I enjoyed the story, I love tennis and have followed the grand slams for years. My wife, who doesn't like tennis found it difficult to follow. We both, like others have said, found the accents terrible - embarrassing even. Lori Prince shouldn't have tried to do a Spanish, Pakistani or even Cockney accent and why the Swedish mother suddenly became British two thirds through I have no idea. Another narrator who can do accents or more than one narrator would've been better.

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I'm sad it ended

I really enjoyed this book. it was great all the way through. looking forward to any more books that come out from this author

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loved the story, struggled with the accents

I loved this story, an entertaining romance with great characters and some great sparky dialogue but I struggled with the narration, Lori Prince is easy to listen too but her accents are really poor when they were there at all.

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Enjoyable but inconsistent

I enjoyed this story but some of the complexities of the secondary characters weren’t really explored. Elin’s family clearly loves her but they are quite unkind and pushy towards her and it feels that this is never explored. Because we get Elin’s inner monologue, we understand the difficulties Alice has faced and can sympathise, but Alice is quite dismissive and unsympathetic towards Elin, and this is never softened, or even acknowledged. Pushing Elin to come out when she wasn’t ready was inappropriate - that Alice had the choice removed from her is terrible but that’s no reason her sister should experience the same.

The coach/loving parent dichotomy has been done to death in sports stories, of course, and it feels like the twist was kind of meant to be, “but Britta is actually a great Mum!”. But… She obviously loves her kids but there was complexity and pressure that went unexplored.

In terms of performance, the accents were inconsistent but that’s just always so difficult to manage - I suppose no one can switch in and out of accents they don’t genuinely have, to this extent, and do it perfectly.

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Loved it!

Loved it! I couldn't put it down from the second it started. I was hooked. Enjoyed every minute.

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great story if you can stomach the accents

compelling plot and pairing, a shame about the accents. I usually really like Lori Prince's narration but she just cannot do accents! why would you get her in for this! sort of tuned it out after a while

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Loved the book hates the accents

The book was super sweet. The narration was great however the accents were AWFUL. I loved the way the story flowed. It did get a tad boring in the middle

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why do accents when you can't?

The story was OK, and it was good to have a different storyline to usual. the performances of the book were distracting. The accents were terrible, and they really should not have tried. at points, they were borderline inappropriate. if you should Jamaican when trying to be Spanish, then I'd recommend not doing an accent.

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Tedious

Tedious, monotonous story. I have lost time I will never get back, My fault for persisting to the end in hope of an improvement. Waited in vain.

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