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Love by the Numbers

By: Karin Kallmaker
Narrated by: Abby Craden
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As a behavioral scientist, Professor Nicole Hathaway's work strips away the foolish mystique that surrounds the human mating dance. When her academic tome is treated as a viral "love manual", her ecstatic publisher books her to appear all over the US and Europe. Worse yet, her quiet, managed life has been shattered by a series of incompetent assistants. And she's certain this Lily Smith creature isn't going to be any less a burden than the last assistant they sent her. Or the one before that. Or before that....

Lillian Linden-Smith needs this job. With a relentless TV lawyer and public mob still out for her blood for crimes committed by her "American royalty" parents, getting out of the country is her only hope for anonymity. If that means cleaning up and presenting an antisocial know-it-all PhD for bookstores, clubs, and lectures, fine. Dr. Hathaway may have succeeded in driving away all the others, but not this time.

From their first meeting the sparks fly, and each is thinking: She has no idea who she's dealing with.

©2013 Karin Kallmaker (P)2021 Tantor Contemporary Contemporary Romance Literature & Fiction Romance
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I liked the story as it was a bit less straight-forward than these books often are. Abby Craden is a good narrator in general and was good here too, but as other's have written, the accents are far from good. There were two women who I think were supposed to be British who sounded Australian, to then sound like fictionalized British people. Her French pronunciation is a bit better. Perhaps it would have been easier if she just stuck with a more neutral or American accent for English-speaking people? The portrayal of an Indian family at the start was a bit stereotypical for someone who has been to India, but that was such a small part that I wouldn't have cared much except that it was the first impression.

Good story, less good accents

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This tells a sweet story of how a walled off professor has her barriers chipped away.
Abby Craden is an excellent narrator though her foreign (to America) accents are less than stellar. If you accept that going in and don’t expect a Welsh etc accent you can continue to enjoy her narration otherwise you will struggle.

Barrier dismantling

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I don’t really think people should be given the job to read a book if they are unable to do the accents needed! There are various English accents in this and all are delivered in a weird, tinny and unintelligible ‘English’- & I’m English so I should be able to understand all English accents!! And one was even Welsh apparently but it sounded just like the Cockney and other generic tinny awful ones - bemusing and also we don’t say ‘beaut’ in England unless it’s by an Aussie - or someone who lived there! 🤷‍♀️it’s really is ruining a story I’m glad they’re soon off to France but what’s that going to sound like?! 🙈😆 such a shame.

Awful English accents

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I didn’t want it to end!! Very easy listen and nice to hear characters develop

Heart warming

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slow burning start that builds the story and the characters lovely, but the narration is superb as all ways brilliant

Not by the numbers

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