Good Vibrations by Kayley Loring is live!
A hot and hilarious single parent romance, this book is so much fun!
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Narrated by Jason Clarke and Mackenzie Cartwright.
Featuring Teddy Hamilton, Zachary Webber, Emma Wilder, Connor Crais and Emily Woo Zeller
Blurb
A former model, a grumpy lawyer, and a single dad walk into an audition for a children’s musical… They’re all Miles Brodie. It’s only cute if you aren’t the director who’s being bribed to cast his daughter.
DEAR MS. CROSS,
Re: Our discussion
1. True. Casting my daughter as the lead in your musical could be considered bribery if people find out I’m investing in it, but no one needs to know.
2. I only want to hire you as Macy’s singing coach so her vocal skills will improve.
3. Maybe if you’d spent less time surfing and more on your singing career, you wouldn’t be in this financial predicament.
4. Re. your living situation—my neighbor has a guest house. If you cast Macy as Alice, I will pay for your first three months’ rent.
Do we have a deal?
Best regards,
Miles Brodie
DEAR MR. BRODIE,
1. It absolutely is bribery, but I absolutely need that money for my production. Thanks!
2. It is very cute that you will do anything to get Macy this part, but I would only coach that sweet child as a favor to all mammals with functional hearing.
3. If I spend less time surfing, will you spend less time jogging on my beach with your shirt off?
4. You want to pay me to live next door so you don’t have to drive anywhere to frown at me?
5. I have another condition for casting Macy as Alice—you have to perform the part of the Cheshire Cat.
Purrrrrrr,
Aria
Review
4.5 stars!
The third and final book in the Brodie Brothers series, this is the story of eldest Brodie brother, Miles, and the woman he has been crushing on for years, Aria.
Miles is the grumpy, more serious member of the Brodie family, but he is just as witty and hilarious as his brothers. He is a divorced single Dad to an adorably precocious 8 year old daughter, and is a successful entertainment lawyer living a busy yet mostly quiet life.
His solitary world is upended one morning while he is taking a moment for himself on the beach and spots a woman surfing who literally takes his breath away. He is instantly smitten, but soon learns that she is the ex-girlfriend of his newest client, and therefore completely off limits, so he reluctantly walks away… sort of. Over the next three years, Miles continuously places himself right in Aria’s path, not making contact, but still in sight. He runs along the beach where she surfs, he shows up at her favourite coffee shop, and though he never makes contact, his infatuation for her continues to grow.
Aria is a former child star whose life didn’t turn out exactly the way she had planned, but she has bravely persevered, and is currently writing and directing a play for a local children’s theatre group. She is all too aware of Miles’ presence in her life, and she’s just as smitten as he is, though given his constant dismissal of her, she assumes he hates her. Until she finally decides to break the ice.
It seems like things are going well, until they both learn that Miles’ daughter, Macy, keeps trying out for Aria’s plays and, because she’s such a horrific singer, Aria continuously rejects her. Awkward!
“She’s your daughter?”
“She is the light of my life, yes. And you are the murderer of her dreams.”
In a delicious twist, Miles offers to financial back Aria’s play if she agrees to work with Macy on some lessons and give her the lead role. Needing the money, and so enchanted by little Macy and her fervent desire to act and sing, Aria agrees – but in another twist, her condition is that Miles also has voice lessons and agrees to perform in her play. It’s a little unethical, sure, but it’s a great set-up which brings Aria right into Miles’ life in a big way. Let the games begin.
I love these characters! Miles and Aria are both fantastically entertaining, funny, smart and sarcastic, and their inner monologues are so much fun! And together, their dynamic is awesome. They tease and banter, their witty back-and-forths had me laughing out loud, and their chemistry is electric, with a witty, sexually-charged flirtation bubbling through each of their encounters. They have such a strong connection, and I loved the anticipation as everything builds between them.
This woman will be the end of me, but she should be the beginning.
It’s funny and sexy, and you can see the growing emotion between them. More than just mad lust, these two truly feels something for each other, and I loved watching them come together. They don’t play games, they’re so meant to be, and it’s easy and natural, and so full of feeling.
“This is happening, isn’t it?” I whisper. “It’s a thing.”
She sighs. “Yeah. It feels like a thing. Do you want it to be a thing?”
“Yes.” I take her hand. “I want us to be a thing.”
Along the way, we get to see the ins and outs of the play, which is a remake of Alice in Wonderland. As much as I enjoyed seeing Aria and Macy work together, and watching little Macy fully embrace her stardom like the diva she is, I didn’t need quite this level of details, and skimmed the song details to get back to the more personal stuff.
As always, Miles’ family have his back, and are a big part of the story. His two brothers and his always-helpful parents are there to support and offer advice, and the family text conversations had me laughing so hard. They are all so funny, and are a true highlight of the whole series because they are just gold!
It’s pretty much angst and drama free, though Miles and Aria do have some issues that they need to confront. It brings intensity to the story, and is really well written, and there’s a happy ending which left me super satisfied, and I loved these two together so much.
“Ever since we met at the beach, you’re all I see when I close my eyes.”
I loved this book. It’s a fun, easy, romantic read, and a fantastic end to the series.
4.5 stars!
An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.
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About the Author
Before writing steamy romantic comedy novels, Kayley Loring got a BFA in creative writing from a Canadian university and had a fifteen-year career as a screenwriter in Los Angeles (under a different name). She mostly wrote PG-13 family comedies that studios would pay her lots of money for and then never make into movies. In 2017 she decided to move to the Pacific Northwest and write about all the fun stuff that she wasn’t allowed to write about in those PG-13 scripts. Now she’s breathing cleaner air and writing dirtier words. It’s an adjustment she’s happily getting used to.
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