You can’t really knock it though because it is what it is and doesn’t claim to be anything else. but for me, well shrug, I really didn’t get anything out of it - so I’ll be heading back to lengthier listens. It’s just a little infill book when an hour’s all you’ve got to dedicate to a story. Don’t expect much and you won’t be disappointed. Mixed Martial artist Ty, a soon-to-be Welterweight champion of the Xtreme. Blaire, an underachieving college student with zero prospects and a ton of issues (hey, being the less-successful twin of a gorgeous supermodel would totally do that to you) needs something from Ty. and dust off hands coz we’re over and done. Rock bottom has built way more champions than privilege ever has. It’s a story where said Waitress meets her favourite Rockstar, gets to be a very very lucky girl, he meets her little son, they play happy families. So it’s an hour’s worth of a story where a spoiled Rockstar meets his Room Service Waitress has wild sex, falls in love, meets her son and wants forever. It is absolutely the shortest story in my Library though and you know going in there’ll be no room for layers, character growth, plot twists, slow-burns, gleeful anticipation or anything other than insta just about everything. Shen AND narrated by Jason Clarke I sit up and take notice and say to myself “oh what’s the harm”. but, when they’re a free short written by L.
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