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A Seismic Attraction Enemies to lovers tale with an earth-shaking twist.

International pop star RJ Contreras finds himself at a crossroads when his mega famous boy band, AnyDayNow, breaks up. After his solo career fails to take off, RJ retreats to a no-frills apartment where he can hide out from the world and lick his festering wounds. But when Dani, the girl next door, starts slipping 'good neighbor' contracts under his door and complaining about his behavior through strategically placed Post-it-Notes, RJ snaps out of his self-absorbed melancholy to wage war. In the middle of one of their epic battles, Mother Nature takes her swing and plunges both RJ and Dani into the rubble of a 7.1 earthquake. With their lives hanging in the balance, these former enemies must join forces to survive inside an apartment building only standing on its last few legs. But nothing is certain in an upside-down world where the sacrifices are gut-wrenching and where even the power of first love might not be enough to save them.

“Dani was the only thing in my life that made my pulse racethe way it had when I was on stage. I needed her anger like I needed my life back.”– RJ Contreras

©2021 J. Bengtsson (P)2021 J. Bengtsson Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance Natural Disaster
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This story was impelling loved the characters immediately emotional,engaging and heartfelt. excellent story / material. love everything ever written by this author don’t ever stop writing please please.

This author could write a best seller even on her bad days

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I received this audiobook via a free promo code in an Aural Fixation Giveaway and this is my voluntary review.

Boy band heartthrob RJ aka "Chad Woodcock" has been sulking in the apartment down the hallway from school teacher Dani since his debut solo album was a flop. Dani's unaware of the international popstar status beneath the Wookie look he's been sporting lately and his grouching hasn't exactly been serenading her as she retorts to his disgusting behaviour with Post-it-Notes and as they've been battling it out in their shared space. When an earthquake strikes bringing their apartment down on their heads and has RJ pinned beneath the rubble in their underground parking garage, Dani will stop at nothing to save him. RJ makes a promise to himself that he wont waste anymore of his life sulking, hes gonna grab his life like the gift that it is and build his future with Dani... Even if the biggest barrier to their happy ever after seems to happen after the medical crews take over.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I'm a big lover of those high drama disaster movies and this was pretty Epic. Teddy Hamilton was the best person I could think of to perform RJ Contreras and Stella Hunter playing Dani during her Fan Girl stakeouts was perfection.

A great listen!

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Another great story from J. Bengtsson. They’re such a talented writer, and after having a recent book slump I was glad to see this book had been released and could break the trend - and it didn’t disappoint. Great narrators, too.

Great book

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Ripple Effect was a story I didn't see coming. I'm guessing I should read J. Bengtsson's blurbs before I continue. It wouldn't have stopped me... had I known that I would have spent a good chunk of this audiobook in tears I would have still wanted to continue.  Once I started listening to this audiobook I compulsively obsessed over it... I couldn't stop. This is one of those books that caused my heart rate to accelerate. It caused my palms to get steady. I was a nervous wreck of emotion for these characters. RJ/Chad started out as a total jerkface but this man redeemed himself... big time. Dani is the perfect human. Really, that sums her up. She shows determination and loyalty like I've never seen before.

The narration by Teddy Hamilton and Stella Hunter told a beautiful tale. They started the story out with this fun and flirty banter with some major snark. Hamilton really outdid himself here... he made you dislike RJ right from the start and feel slightly sorry for him at the same time. But he excelled in redeeming RJ. Those hours in the gararge... Lord, he made me cry. He made me see RJ in a different light... he made RJ come to life. Hunter was amazing as well. I imagine Dani would be a hard woman to narrate because she's plain amazing and how do you live up to that. Hunter schools us all. She made Dani the strongest, the most persistent heroine ever.

An amazing story!

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This book is so much better the 5 stars. It really was amazing m. It draws you in right from the start and takes you on a ride that will definitely impact your life. So well done, so amazing. Just get it and listen, you won’t be sorry.
1 helpful tip- don’t start at bedtime, you are unlikely to sleep, until the book has ended.
Narrative was also done beautifully. I’m new to Stella Hunter but she did awesome. And I’m a long time Teddy fan and he did not disappoint.

Wow! Just Wow!

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