The Matchmaker

AUDIO REVIEW I love a good swoon factor in a romance story and The Matchmaker almost broke the equation!! Phew, (*fans self*) this is a story that took me a little by surprise. You see, when I saw the words age gap billionaire, I just assumed that’d I’d be getting the typical billionaire cliché characteristics (you know the ones …), but nope, what I got was complete swoon with a side of dirty sexy that I found hard to put down! I listened to this audiobook in about three quarters of the time an audiobook of this length normally would take. I just couldn’t stop. I was captivated by both Sterling and Halliday as individuals and as a couple. I just wanted more and more of whatever was coming next! The story had a few subplots related to the MCs but not directly influential to the romance journey which would normally put them in the dramatics category that would make my eye twitch (lol) but they worked with this story. I mean there’s only so much sexy-sexy you can put on the page before a book just becomes porn on paper, so these sub-plots worked as a way to add a little substance to the story. This story was a triple “new-to-me” situation with the author and both narrators. I can definitely say that I will be looking out for more stories written by Elle Nicoll and the narration by Madison Mitts was really well done. Her voice was “easy” to listen to and she did a really good job with all her voices. I can’t say the same for Theodore Zephyr. *sad face* You know that thing that sometimes happens when we’re telling a story and our breath is an audible escape? Yeah, he did that a lot, and while it wasn’t all the time, it was enough that my eye twitched often. You have to be careful with audiobooks that are longer than about 7 hours because at that point, even the most innocuous thing could completely upend a listener’s experience. *shrug*