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  • Mixed Messages, Book 2
  • By: Lily Morton
  • Narrated by: Joel Leslie
  • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (151 ratings)
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Deal Maker

By: Lily Morton
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Summary

Sometimes your mouth makes deals that your heart can’t honour. 

Jude is a highly successful model, but a very reluctant one. His life is full of casual hook-ups with pretty men in glamorous locations, but it’s still empty. However, circumstances decreed a long time ago that this was his path, so he’s resolutely stayed on it and accepted his fate with good grace. He made a deal with himself and his hook-ups. Get in, get out, and no ties with anyone. 

However, an accident at home one night leads to him making a new deal and accepting the offer of help from an unlikely source. It leads to an unexpected summer of falling in love with a larger-than-life man and his child. But by the end of the summer his reasons for not staying are still valid. Will he turn away? Can he? 

Asa is a talented actor who has spent time away from the scene to look after his son. But now he’s back, and the last thing he needs are complications from the gorgeous man who is staying with him. Scarred from too many betrayals, he has no intention of forming a lasting tie with anyone. However, he can’t resist the beautiful man with secrets, and to his horror he develops feelings. 

But a deal’s a deal and they said it was just for the summer. What can Asa do with a man who has forever in his eyes and goodbye on his lips? 

From the Amazon best-selling author of Rule Breaker comes another scorchingly hot romantic comedy. 

This is the second book in the Mixed Messages series but it can be read as a stand-alone.

©2017 Lily Morton (P)2019 Lily Morton

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Fab 2nd book in Series

Usually the second book isn’t as good as the first, however Lily Morton has again turned out afantastic book. I loved the development of the characters and their relationship(especially love ditzy Jude, hilarious). I also love seeing characters from the first book and how their life’s are moving forward. All in all a really lovely listen. And speaking of Listen, I literally can listen to Joel Leslie every day, his narration is ALWAYS on point and gives every character depth.
So love the book and loved the narration. Thank you

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Amazing !!

Loved this book from start to finish . Humorous and touching as well as life enhancing all at the same time .
Audible readers thus is a treat to savour

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loved it!

the banter between Jude and Asa is hilarious and having someone read it out load to you just makes you laugh out load even more. the emotions toward the end of the book really get to you with how good the narrator reads it.

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Loved this book

Again a brilliant sassy book written by Lily, great humour and narrated well.
Would recommend.

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Perfect story and narration!

Lily Morton writes the best books! The characters are lively, fun, so relatable that one would love to know them. This is no exception :)
Jude needs a place to stay temporarily when his flat is flooded. His current squeeze, Dean, oblivious to the seriousness of the situation - (that was a hilarious scene) - offers his step-brothers place. Jude arrives to said place and meets a little boy, Billy (he will steal your heart), a pessimistic driver, a motherly housekeeper and the home owner - Asa.
Asa and Jude were well matched - Asa assumed that all models were airheads and Jude set out deliberately to keep that assumption going, with hilarious results! There is a lot of fun with the MCs, Billy and the secondary characters; twe get to see Dylan and Gabe (Rule Breaker). The romance is lovely, with a little bite when Asa and Jude separate for a bit - overall, one of my favourite stories :)

I wish there was a 'This Is Your Life" for Joel Leslie. This version would have all the characters he's brought to life and all the listeners who have been touched by or have enjoyed his performances. He is truly a one of a kind narrator, immersing himself in the characters, right down to the right accent, emotions, subtle inflections and mannerisms (you can almost see Billy poking a tongue in his cheek when he says something sagely :)
The audio performance is nuanced, one can tell who is speaking and what they are feeling. Joel Leslie switches seamlessly between Asa's Yorkshire accent, Jude's Devon to Billy's mixed London (child's) accent and Peggy's East London one; sometimes all within the space of 3 minutes! The book is excellent on it's own, but once you listen to the audio performance, you'll realise that the book is pretty much complete with it :) I would give this audiobook every star possible!

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Hilarious

A sequel that's better than book one.
Jude gets his own forever after here, and plays the role of stupid bimbo model with hilarious results. Medium angst level, very steamy sex scenes, and fantastic narration.

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Loved this book

This was a great addition to the series. The characters were well drawn and the storyline was interesting and full of humourous dialogue. Joel Leslie brought the whole thing to life. one of my favourites.

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I loved this so much

this is such a wonderful story. its left me feeling so happy and I wished I knew these people in real life

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LOVE this book

I love this story and Lily Morton's books in general. I've read everything that she's written and this is probably my favorite of her books so I was thrilled to jump on to listening to the audio version. There was a lot to love - the little chapter headers were wonderful and all of the quick wit of the book translated wonderfully to audio. I will absolutely listen to this again and enjoy it - particularly the relationship between Billy and Jude! The only tiny niggle I have is Jude's West Country accent. Brilliant, engaging and expressive as the narrator is that accent pulled me out of the story at times. Overall still a thoroughly enjoyable listen, highly recommended.

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My new favourite author

I've really discovered Lily Morton this year and I have to say I love their stuff. I adored Rule Breaker but I think I love Deal Maker even more. Jude is so funny and clever and I just adored him and and Asa together. In fact I loved the entire household, apart from that nanny, and especially little Billy.

This can be read as a standalone but I can't think of any reason not to listen to Rule Breaker too.

Both are narrated by Joel Leslie who does an excellent job.

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