Twice in a Blue Moon

De: Christina Lauren

Narrado por: Erin Mallon

From the New York Times and USA Today best-selling duo behind The Unhoneymooners and the “delectable, moving” (Entertainment Weekly) My Favorite Half-Night Stand comes a poignant romance that follows two people who fall in love during a life-changing overseas vacation - only for the truth to change everything once they return home.

As an adventurous send-off to her childhood, 18-year-old Tate Jones travels with her grandmother from their small town in Northern California to London. But the vacation of a lifetime is wonderfully derailed by the appearance of two charming Vermont farmers: grandfather Luther and his handsome grandson, Sam.

Sam and Tate fall hard and fast. For two glorious weeks, the couple share their hopes, dreams, and secrets. Sam admits he suspects his grandfather is dying and that this could be the last trip they take together, and Tate reveals that she is the hidden daughter of one of the biggest film stars in the world - a secret she’s never told anyone before.

But when Tate is exposed by a crush of cameras and reporters, she knows she's been betrayed by the one person she thought she could trust. She is forced to decide whether she will return to her quiet life or embrace being in the public eye. So when Sam reappears in her world more than a decade later, can Tate forgive the past and rekindle the passion they shared on their magical trip abroad? And does she even want to?

With Christina Lauren’s signature “beautifully written and remarkably compelling” (Sarah J. Maas, New York Times best-selling author) prose, Twice in a Blue Moon is an unforgettable and moving novel of young love and second chances.

©2019 Christina Lauren (P)2019 Simon & Schuster Audio

Predictable but good

I liked the story, but became annoyed by the drawing out of certain words done by the narrator.

It just ended?

Did the author run out of time? It ended so abruptly.
Is this the same person wrote ‘Love and other words’?

Narration

Ugh, painful to listen to! Story was good but the narration took away from the story line.

basic story made worse by bad narrator

this book was nothing too crazy, not AMAZING but not terrible either. However, the narrator’s voice was genuinely insufferable and really made the whole experience far less pleasant than it had to be.

Didn't enjoy narration

I tried to finish, but the narrator had (to my ear) a really annoying habit of weirdly stretching out the last syllables/sounds of some words. I returned the audiobook and will get the ebook. Others may not even notice it, but I couldn't get past it.

LOVE LOVE LOVE, riveting story, awesome narration

It is rare that I like a single narrated book over a duet narrated book, but Erin Mallon's rendition of Christina Lauren books are the exception. Her male voice is excellent (I'd date him!) and distinct enough from her female voice that the story has fullness. I also loved this story though it does have a lot of similarities with Love and Other Words, I didn't mind because I loved that book as well. I judge a book by how many hikes and steps I do while listening and this one was off the charts, I was walking an hour extra a day to get in more 'book time' (I don't listen unless I exercise, makes it last longer and motivate me!).

Cute and simple

Yes, it’s predictable but so is any rom com out there. I was not a huge fan of the narrator but not so much that it was distracting. I liked that some characters were just flawed, never to be fixed, and others were allowed to grow and change.

Loved it!

This is such a sweet love story! And the narrator did a great job, too.

The narratorrrr

I had to stop listening.
The narrator clinged to the last syllable of every word. It reminded me of when teenagers add an obscene amount of letters to the end of a word while textingggggg.

Good but not one of their best

The story is great. I was hoping for a little more to the ending. Maybe an epilogue if sorts, unless there’s going to be more books that will finish their story for us.

My biggest issue with the book was the narrator. I didn’t remember her breathy drawn out sentence endings in other books. Her speech was super annoying and made the female character, Tate, seem whiney. I also didn’t like that all the guys sounded the same, with only Marco being likable. It’s a shame that the male lead, Sam, sounded unlikable.

I always finish Christina Lauren books in days. This one was no exception, I just wish I was able to enjoy it while speeding through it.