Audiobook Review: Wished by Sarah Ready
Wished
Series: Ghosted #4
Author: Sarah Ready
Narrators:
Amanda Ronconi
Will Watt
Published: October 1, 2024
Audiobook: 9 hours 36 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: September 4-16, 2024
Jessica’s Rating: 3.5 stars
Audiobook Description:
When Anna Benoit wishes she’s married to the enigmatic owner of the chateau she cleans, she wakes up in a topsy-turvy world where she’s Max Barone’s wife.
Anna is a romantic who believes in The One and Love at First Sight. Why? Because it happened to her. The second she saw Max Barone she fell desperately, hopelessly in love.
It didn’t matter that they were from completely different worlds—he owned a jewelry empire, she cleaned houses—love had no barriers.
Except one: Max didn’t know Anna’s name, much less that she existed.
Then one day Anna made a wish. Suddenly she was in an upside-down world where everyone believed she and Max had been happily married for years. It was passion. It was romance. It was love. It was everything she’d ever wished for.
Wasn’t it?
Jessica’s Review:
I have listened to all four of the books in the Ghosted series and loved Ghosted (book one) and Switched (book two). Fated (book three) and now Wished (book four) just didn’t work for me. I didn’t get attached to the characters. All the books are standalones but are connected, with books one and two connected and then books three and four connected. The ideas of the stories I loved, but it just didn’t work for me. I think part of it might have been that the first two books dealt with the female protagonists having STEM careers, and are also a bit ‘nerdy’ where the next two did not.
In Wished, we have Anna who is in love with Max whose house she cleans. She comes across a family heirloom and makes a wish… And BOOM it comes true. I thought it would kind of be similar to the Jennifer Lopez movie Maid in Manhattan where the maid falls in love with the rich senate candidate. Can two people from totally different worlds fall in love and it actually work out? The family is a jewelry dynasty and we learn some about the ‘jewelry world’.
As I have said with my reviews of the previous books in the series: I just love these covers! The covers alone would have me pick these books up in a bookstore to see what they are about. I might even buy them because of these covers.
As with the other books in the series, this one also has spice to it. Spice lovers will enjoy it, but it was a bit too much for me! I am used to it now with this series.
The narrators were Amanda Ronconi and Will Watt. Watt did not work for me at all. The book starts with his narration, and when I started it I wasn’t sure I was going to continue. Luckily, he only narrates two chapters. Ronconi otherwise did a great job!
Overall, I just had some personal issues with the book. All books are not for everyone, but maybe if you like the premise and enjoy spice, you might enjoy it!
Many thanks to the publisher for making this series available for readers and listeners to read or listen and review on NetGalley!
Release Day Review: Fated by Sarah Ready
Fated
Series: Ghosted #3
Author: Sarah Ready
Narrator: Shakira Shute
Published: Today, July 16, 2024
Audiobook: 13 hours 36 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: May 30, 2024
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars
Book Description:
She meets the man of her dreams in her dreams.
Fiona Abry excels at keeping busy, running her family’s Swiss watch company, and guarding her heart. She’s so busy she doesn’t have time for a vacation much less a love life.
But then she’s given a family heirloom rumored to let you dream your greatest desire.
Suddenly, Fiona is spending her nights on a tiny tropical island in a completely different life.
She’s married. She has two kids. She lives in a colorful cottage on the beach.
This dream life is so different from her hectic, busy life in the city that Fiona decides to live her dreams to the fullest.
Swimming in the turquoise sea. Picnics under palms. Star-gazing on the beach. It’s a slow, seductive dream life that conveniently stays in her dreams.
But after kisses and confessions and long nights on the beach, Fiona starts to fall hard for her dream husband and her dream life.
But what happens when opening yourself to love means falling for a life that isn’t real and a man who doesn’t exist?
Because in the end, it’s not fate, it’s just a dream.
Jessica’s Review:
This series: I am really enjoying it and I haven’t really been much of a romance reader! I am also becoming a Sarah Ready fan.
Now Ready brings us the third in the Ghosted series: Fated. Even though this is a series the books can be read as standalones. The connection for Fated to the others is that Fiona is the sister to Daniel, who was a focus in book one. It does seem like possibly that this story occurs before book one.
I did struggle with this one, but I wanted to continue it. Once it got to about 80% the direction of the story changed and I became fully and 1000% invested! It even makes me want to start the novel again at some point, because… well…. Spoilers, so I can’t say! Part of my issue may have been the narrator with her accent. I did check and there have been different narrators for each book in the series.
I really have enjoyed this series and was very excited to see that there is a fourth book coming out October 1: Titled Wished and I hope it lives up to the others in the series. Ms. Ready, it seems like you are trying to turn me into a romance reader, which is something since I have just gone through a divorce!
And I have to say: I REALLY LOVE these covers!!!
Many thanks to the publisher for granting me an alc to listen to and review! I’m hoping to be able to get a listen in on Wished!
Purchase Links:
Amazon US
Amazon UK
An Advanced Listening Copy Review of Switched by Sarah Ready
Switched
Series: Ghosted #2
Author: Sarah Ready
Narrators:
Kelsey Navarro Foster
James Anderson Foster
To Be Published: February 20, 2024
Audiobook: 10 hours 12 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: February 2-12, 2024
Jessica’s Rating: 4.5 stars
Book Description:
For Serena Otaki, free-spirited Californian, life is simple. She loves smashing atoms at The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. She loves Star Trek, spicy tofu, and her cat, Captain Purrk. She loves her messy (slob-fest) apartment, her chaotic brand of organizing, and staying permanently, happily unattached.
Life is perfect. She has one true love—physics.
Loving a man isn’t in her future.
For Henry Joules, uptight Brit, life is simple. He loves making analog black holes, drinking piping hot tea, and organizing his pencil tray. He loves his family, red meat, and obsessively cleaning his spotless apartment.
Life is perfect. He has many loves—physics, family, friends. He can’t wait to find the woman of his dreams.
Love and marriage are in his future.
One perfect night Serena and Henry meet. Sparks fly, particles collide, the universe comes to a halt, and…
It was a mistake.
They’re too different.
It won’t work.
Love isn’t in their future.
Until an electric storm causes an unexpected event at the particle collider and suddenly—they’ve switched.
Serena is in Henry’s body.
Henry is in Serena’s body.
And both life and love are suddenly very, very complicated.
Jessica’s Review:
Wow, Jessica listened to another romance novel and really enjoyed it! This is the second in the Ghosted series. It isn’t necessary to have read Ghosted before this one because Jillian and Daniel’s story is mentioned in Switched, but I really do recommend it! Their story also continues since Switched happens after Ghosted. So far in this series we have extremely smart FMCs (female main characters) with STEM careers, that are also nerdy but adorable. It’s great to have strong female characters with this type of career!
To be honest, I wasn’t really interested in the book until Serena and Henry switched bodies. I think it was a ‘me’ thing with some things going on in my life. But once that switch happened the book took off for me.
Switched is very entertaining and hilarious at times. We see what happens when you are not just in another person’s body, but someone of the opposite gender! Both Serena and Henry have experiences as the opposite sex. And really, we do see that women really are the stronger gender! Full on hilarity ensues, I just don’t want to say what as a minor spoiler. We do have a small amount of spice that I could have done without. Remember…. I’ve figured out that I seem to be a ‘fade to black’/ ‘behind closed door’ romance reader.
Here are some of the tropes we have in Switched:
Fake Dating
One Night Stand
Forced Proximity
We have two narrators: Kelsey Navarro Foster and James Anderson Foster, who are married in ‘real life’! Kelsey did a fabulous job! She really captured everything with the characters down to the ‘bad English accent’ with Serena attempting to be Henry. James only narrated for one chapter, and for that I was thankful as his voice for this chapter did not work for me.
Sarah Ready is an author I discovered last year and Switched is the third book I have listened to from her, and I have enjoyed them all! She’s an author I plan to read/listen to more. And with a third book in the Ghosted series coming out in July, I am ready for another book from her! And for one who doesn’t really read much romance, that is saying something! And let me just say that the covers of the books in this series… It’s very tempting for me to want physical copies of them because they are just… Gorgeous!
Many thanks to the publisher for having these audiobooks available to listen to and reviewing!
Pre-Order Links:
Amazon US
Amazon UK
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