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Star Shipped

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Written by: Cat Sebastian
Narrated by: Joel Leslie
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Cat Sebastian’s long-awaited foray into contemporary romance! A witty, emotional, and deliciously slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance between two costars on a popular sci-fi television series. Read by award winning audiobook narrator, Joel Leslie.

Simon and Charlie, actors on a long-running sci-fi show, can’t stand one another. Charlie is impetuous, outgoing, and basically feral, and Simon thinks he should have stayed in reality television where he belongs. They’ve spent the better part of a decade quarreling over the spotlight and pretty much everything else, and everybody in the industry knows it. Now that Simon’s contract is finally done, he can move to New York, start fresh with work he actually likes, and get away from Charlie.

Simon’s only problem is that people might assume he’s been pushed off the show due to being impossible to work with. And he is kind of difficult to work with. He doesn’t get along with people—unlike Charlie, who somehow tricked everyone on the show into adoring him despite some outrageously bad on-set behavior during the show’s first season. Simon would rather never have to see Charlie again, but reluctantly agrees to stage a very public friendship during the short time before he moves. When Charlie has to leave town to deal with a family emergency, this means Simon comes along. Their road trip brings Simon to places he would never have willingly chosen to visit—and he finds he’s actually not having a terrible time.

The more he gets to know Charlie, the more Simon suspects he’s underestimated his former coworker. Simon also realizes that after seven years, Charlie might know him better than anyone ever has. Even stranger, Charlie seems to be starting to actually like him, despite knowing him so well. Still, Simon is about to move three thousand miles away, so whatever’s starting between him and Charlie can’t really amount to anything... right?

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Enemies to Lovers

Opposites Attract

Forced Proximity

Slow Burn

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Narration was a very unique voice and I couldn’t tell one character from the others. Great book, not my favourite narration.

Great characters and story

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4.25/5 It took me a little while to like Simon. I soon understood why he behaved the way he did, but the end result was sometimes still him being mean, and I didn’t love that. But I got very invested in the relationship between Charlie and Simon (especially because everyone but Simon knew how Charlie felt, and it was hugely entertaining to watch that unfold), and I thoroughly enjoyed the two of them slowly revealing more and more to one another.

I liked how much Simon grew, or how much more accurately he was able to assess the world and the people around him as the book progressed. I liked how understanding Charlie was (once he understood what was going on), and how Simon tried to do the same even if he’s often kind of terrible at emotions and/or expressing himself a lot of the time.

I enjoyed the Discord server, their friends, and of course the adorable dog. Joel Leslie does a fabulous job narrating, as usual.

Getting out of their own way to get together

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I loved the story! The narrator at first was a bit annoying in the change of characters. His voice does not work with the different tones and fluctuations of the characters. The book however, was amazing!! The story is witty, funny and what you can think of a dysfunctional relationship between 2 guys who think they hate each other but can actually relate to each other. The banter is very well written.

The banter is TEA!!!!

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