All Bets Are Off

De: Avery Kane

Narrado por: Meghan Kelly, Neill Thorne

Olivia Carter fell in love with her older brother’s best friend Zach Stone when she was a teenager.

She mooned over him, doodled his name in notebooks, and daydreamed about one day marrying him.

She never thought it would be a reality.

Zach Stone needs a break from his father. As the only son in a casino dynasty, he has the weight of the world on his shoulders. So what if he occasionally likes to blow off steam with showgirls? Who cares?

Apparently his father does. Zach is ordered to get serious about his life or get out of the family business. To buy himself time, he considers a wedding of convenience and his best friend suggests that Olivia might be the woman who can help. That is if Olivia agrees to the offer.

She’s between jobs and desperate to get back in the accounting game. She needs help. It just so happens that Zach not only has contacts but also the insurance that Olivia so desperately needs. Sure, it’s dental insurance, but it just might be worth a year of marriage to get her mouth fixed.

Olivia and Zach don’t have a lot in common on paper but somehow they mesh behind the scenes. They can’t fall in love—Olivia’s brother wouldn’t allow it—but they can be friends.

What happens if friendship, and the occasional battle, turns into something more, though? They’re supposed to be focused on their futures. Can those futures overlap?

©2024 Avery Kane (P)2025 Avery Kane

The FMC is obtuse and immature.

The story line was ok. Narration was fabulous. The characters other than the FMC were fine and the only saving Grace this story had. But the FMC was frustrating to read/listen to. The amount of times she would say “you’re not the boss of me” to someone for simple things like being asked to clean up a mess she made or for actively working against her new husband was redundant and annoying. Her character behaved like she was 5 and then she would purposely misunderstand things or be oblivious. Like her husband explains “hey this hurts me or our business” and she was like “you’re not the boss of me, I’m just trying to help this random stranger because I’m bored. Even if it hurts you I don’t understand that.” This Is Basicly how her entire character operated. She was obtuse but it was passed off as naive which was poor writhing on the authors part. Her immaturity and stupidity was the downfall of this book. It made me want to DNF half way through. I did finish it. Painfully tho. And after taking breaks listening because the FMC was so stupid and immature I could only take it in small increments. Save yourself a credit. Get something that isn’t going to piss you off and has some depth to the writing and characters. I promise you this book isn’t that.

All Bets are Off

This story was a little boring. The male character did not appear to have an assertive personality until the very end and how was the sister more capable of being CEO when had never worked at anything,including the family business. How would a wife not know about an inheritance from her father.