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could have been much better than it was, I really wanted to stop listening, but it was a short one so I stuck with it.
I heard “I just assumed, . . ” amp “but we were just friends, . . ” too many times to count in the course ofminutes, The voice actors were very good! Sadly, the story just kinda never went anywhere, Aww! Sweet and touching. Wonderful performance by the voice actors, Engaging storytelling. An enjoyable oneandahalfhour listen. Great audiobook narration
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Someone reached out to me on Instagram and recommended this book we have very similar taste in books and they said they thought I'd really like it.
Since I was in a bit of a reading slump at the time, I figured since it was on A and it was short, I'd give it a shot.
This wasn't what I was expecting, but not at all in a bad way, It's not narrated like a typical audiobook, It was more a conversation between this couple as they talk about how they ended up together and how, every five years of their relationship no matter what stage it was in there seemed to be a "hitch.
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This was the perfect book for a reading slump a palette cleanser if you will and I definitely recommend it if you are an A subscriber.
Triggers: cheating, serious illness
,stars. I loved the fact that this was told as an interview, That style alone makes me tempted to round this up to astar, This was short and sweet, The miscommunication in this would normally annoy me, but I was able to look past it because it was so short.
I have never been a fan of short stories or novellas, but this might have just changed my mind.
Well, I went into this one completely blind and I was pleasantly surprised to find the same narrator narrating this one as The Wedding Proposal, which I happened to love.
The format was interesting but I think interview style doesnt work for me as well as a normal story format does.
Which is why I couldnt connect to the entire story, But I did love the narration and the ending had me in tears, I really lovely audiobook to listen to if youre into romance, Very quick, quite cute, interviewstyle audiobook, where a couple narrates their long and convoluted love story, The narrators were awesome, they made this whole thing work by having really good chemistry,.Beautiful, fun, and short, For a such short story, I feel like it was perfect! The end kind of made me feel sad because of something he said.
Sam and Miles were meant to be, I loved their love story, What's meant to be will always find its way, I'd recommend everyone to listen to this audiobook and the fact that they were the only two people telling their story felt like I was in the same room as them where an audience was listening to them.
It felt so real the way its told, I would say like a podcast! Anyways, I loved it, Might be my favorite short story so far, Go listen to it! This Audible Original stole my heart completely, The narrators had such great chemistry and Melissa de la Cruzs story feels so real, In an hour you fall in love and move through their lives from kindergarten to adulthood from a childhood crush, through the angst and uncertainty of adolescence to the wisdom and recognition of self ofyear olds.
And there is a twist, which you dont expect in such a short story, Loved it. This is a cute little When Harry Met Sallyesque short, The characters are quirky and the story is fun, but not something I think I'd read again.
So this was an Audible original book which are normally pretty moderately to highly mediocre with some exceptions.
I didnt have high expectations for this one but wanted something a little lighter to read,
This story was unexpectedly funny and touching it was an interesting framework for how it was told and the competing memories of how a situation went down from a longtime couple are always funny.
The three are bc the narrators werent great entirely overthetop fakey voices, bc the couple in the story oozed so much stereotypical West Coast and East Coast privilege that you know they wouldnt be likable in the real world, and the part about Sam marrying the billionaire was a cheap and lazy “hitch”.
Good short listen that might invoke some memories for you if you ended up with someone youve known for a long time.
DISCLAIMER I try to review books on their own merit or against the authors other works.
I recognize that it is not equitable or useful to compare emerging authors against longestablished authors, precious little podcast moment The story of two friends who have known each other all their lives falling in and out of love.
Sam amp Miles belong together, except every five years, theres a hitch and they dont end up together.
Now, as they tell their story to a reporter at a momentous occasion, will they finally break the fiveyear curse Can these two friends and lovers find their happily ever after This was such a cute love story.
I enjoyed reading something sweet for a change, Such a lovely book. I loved the dual perspective, the two characters aren't only telling the story, but they are doing it at the same time.
It felt like they were talking to me and I was listening to their story in realtime.
It was fun and cute, I loved it. I'm looking forward to reading more books from her, /stars It was my first audiobook that I listened together with my bestie,
She chose to read it and we agreed to listened to,
I felt so inside the story and then it had finished, . . so sad because I wish it had more about all this hitch story!
For me it was a love story and not just a quite love story.
The FiveYear Hitch was the second Audible winner that I listened to this weekend, I've already retracted my snarky remark, of last week, about Audible lemons, remembering that alongside the landmines, there were/are also many safe green pastures.
This production is meant to sound like a podcast/true story or radio show, . . but it is not! The two characters cleverly tell "the audience" their love story spanningyears from age five, growing up in Hollywood and later migrating to the east coast, separately.
They never get it exactly right, When they were young, he was a slider in high school, not into studies and into booze and maybe the most popular boy in schools he attended a few she was not into drinking and was extremely focused on getting accepted to Harvard.
Every five years the two meet up and remember they are in love, or fall in love, and/or become best friends.
They have lived together and apart, Each has been married once, but not to each other, until now, at the age of, when they are telling us their story.
If you read the Irish title, Normal People, this might sound familiar, but Normal People is dark, very dark, while this story is very upbeat, despite the bittersweet ending.
The FiveYear Hitch tells a different story of normal people, the kind who don't carry around heavy baggage.
It made for a refreshing change, The couple tell their story as if in front of an audience, and even refer to the Audible personal stories genre twice but this is pure fiction, a really great story with a surprising ending.
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