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The Starter Ex

By: Mia Sosa
Narrated by: Noah B. Perez, Miranda Jay
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True love begins with a terrible ex in this steamy rom-com by USA Today best-selling author Mia Sosa.

Meet Vanessa Cordero. A cynic with a colorful past. You see, in college, Vanessa devised a profitable side gig: For a reasonable fee, she’d date your latest crush...and make his life miserable. Too clingy? Check. Jealous? Check. A mother's worst nightmare? Check, check, check. By the time Vanessa was done with him, your guy would be ready for...YOU.

Meet Jason Torres. A certified commitment-phobe. Jason doesn't plan on getting married anytime soon (if ever), much to his mother’s dismay. What he needs is a temporary girlfriend. A totally inappropriate girlfriend. Someone his mother will hate. So she'll abandon her hopes of getting Jason to the altar—for a while at least.

Enter Lisa, Vanessa's younger sister. She's got her eye on Jason and convinces Vanessa to come out of retirement for one last starter ex engagement. The rules are simple: no touching, no fooling around, and definitely no falling in love. But nothing's going according to plan. Because Vanessa can't ditch Jason no matter how hard she tries. And the longer these two are around each other, the more neither of them wants to be apart.

©2024 Mia Sosa (P)2024 Audible Originals, LLC Multicultural Romantic Comedy Feel-Good
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This audiobook was fun and after the first 2 chapters I just couldn't out it down. I liked Vanessa and her relationship with Jason reminded me of the movie "how to loose a guy in 10 days", but with an added latin spice to it.
Highly recommend it. 👌 👍 👏
It has great narration too.

Great romcom

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Absolutely loved it. I drive 30mins to and from work and this was perfect. Definitely going to listen to more!

My first Aubio book

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Loved the storyline, narrators, characters, it's like having a movie play out in my head, Loved that the Latin culture is so similar to my own carribean one 😀 ❤️

Well rounded story

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A romanric story that steps away from the normal formula. I found it entertaining and easy to listen to

Ronance

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It was just meh!! I’m so glad that I wasn’t wasted a credit on this title?!! Also, I didn’t vibe with the narrators. I had to speed up the audio more than normal to get through it.

Not great

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