Kiss My Putt

Summersweet Island Series, Book 1

By: Tara Sivec

Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro, Tim Paige

After spending my entire pro golfing career being known as the quiet, controlled, no-nonsense golfer on the tour, there's nothing more humiliating than throwing all of that down the drain on national television. Needing some place to hide, to lick my wounds and figure out what I even want to do with my life once this blows over, I can only think of one place I need to be. Summersweet Island, where everyone treats me like one of their own, and they'll all be happy to have me home again.

Well, except maybe one person. It's been two years since I last set foot on Summersweet Island or spoke to anyone there. But I'm sure Birdie Bennett, my best friend since I was 15 and the clubhouse manager of my favorite golf course, has had plenty of time to forgive me for that tiny little misunderstanding where I blocked her on social media and blocked her in my phone. Oh, and I guess I kind of, sort of accused her of being a stalker. It's fine!

Once my sexy, spunky, former best friend gets over the shock of seeing me again and stops trying to drive a nine-iron into my skull, I can finally let her know I've also kind of, sort of always been in love with her....

Contains mature themes.

©2020 Tara Sivec (P)2020 Tantor

Funny with a side of cute

This is a really cute story, with a little bit of potty mouth and smut. If you don't mind those last two elements this is a really fun book. I laughed my head off in spots... I especially loved the part where the hero blurted out his secret embarrassment to comfort the heroine when her bestie over-shared hers.

There wasn't a bunch of manufactured drama and this was in general a very likeable couple.

I will forever look at blue slushies in a whole different light....

Such potential

I love Tara Sivec books... but this one was a whiny diatribe. The male narrator was great! But the woman’s part was played with an angry emo tone and the last word of every sentence was dragged out—so annoying!

Cute

Cute yet predictable. Not a fan of the Tess character bossiness. Love the endearing behaviors once they got it together.

Cute Story

I wanted to like this story way more, but with the talk of drvg use and all the back and forth of self guessing themselves and each other, was just painful and not in a good way.

Definitely a very slow burn, chapter eighteen for this pair to get any kind of reaction so, more than fifty percent of the book 📕

Anyway, not a bad story, but if you took out all the complaining & anger from Birdie you would have maybe 30% total left of this story

Horrible female narrator

Story premise is good; however, the female character was a little annoying.

I am giving the performance 3 because the male narrator was good. if it was just the female narrator it would be a 1. The last word of every sentence was drawn out. At times, it was painful to listen to her.

Female narrator awful

The female tone and the trough raspy word ends annoyed the heck out of me. Stopped listening.

Dragged out

I listened to this because I was intrigued by a golfer rom com etc.. it started off good but then definitely got dragged out and was very frustrating to keep listening to. I did like the characters but jeepers. They are adults! Speak your mind. Anywho the narrators did well. Since this is a series I’m debating listening to more because I did like the characters for the most part. Just didn’t like the way these particular two handled things. It was frustrating.

Good story but too much God & Jesus Christ

It’s a really cute story. I cringed every time God and Jesus Christ was used as a curse word. Occasionally is tolerable but it’s just too frequent for full enjoyment of this book.

Read me now, Sweet Cheeks

NOLA504NERDS BLOG
My fellow Nola504Nerd Blogger [Angie] had the honor of arc’ing this book and gave it 5 stars. We are huge Tara Sivec fans, so I just had to buy the audio version. Tara Sivec never disappoints. She hits a hole in one with this hilarious and sexy romantic comedy. Palmer and Birdie have been friends forever but unfortunately had a falling out. They were both secretly in love with each other and despite their current hatred, still are. Life and golf bring these 2 back in each other’s lives on Summersweet Island. They can’t hide their undeniable lust for each other for long, which leads to some very steamy rendezvous. Who knew a golf course maintenance shed could be so sexy?! There are fun characters, hilarious banter, quick-witted humor, and incredibly sexy chemistry. The side characters are fun and really added to the story. I love Tara’s writing style and humor. She had me laughing out loud at my desk as I listened and left me smiling and happy in the end. I never cared for golf, but Tara totally made golf sexy!

“That sounds entirely too mature and not at all something I’d do.”

“After dinner, you wanna sneak a couple of beers, get drunk behind the saltwater taffy place, and then let me touch your boobs?”

Kelsey Navarro is a favorite narrator of mine. She is always fantastic. I don’t think I had listened to Tim Paige before now, and he is definitely going on my list of favorite narrators! Kelsey and Tim were perfectly cast for these roles, embraced their characters, and brought the story to life. Their voices fit each character flawlessly and was distinct enough to differentiate between characters. Their tone, pacing and flow were exemplary. They and Tara Sivec worked so good together to create a superb listening experience. I’m a huge fan of audiobooks, especially when it is as incredibly delivered as this one.

5 Fun Stars!
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good but predictable

It was easy to tell from the beginning how this story would end. 2 people that grew up together but never knew how the other felt. After years of pining for each other, they fall in love and live HEA. The author did a great job giving Birdie some fire. She was a hothead and a chicken at the same time. the narrators were great too.