I was pleasantly surprised by this book, I enjoyed the story I enjoyed the characters the narrator was not one of my favorites tends to have the same intonations and pauses after every single sentence so I found the narration extremely slow… BUT I often find the narration quite slow and listen to the majority of books at 1.25 speed. this book I happened to have sped up to 1.5 speed just so that it felt like it was carrying a regular speed (for me) which got rid of alot of the irritating way every sentence was made to sound the exact same way with all the same pauses and all the same diphthongs. other than that…. I quite enjoyed the book… the story was pleasantly surprising and I did laugh a few times at the female leads very dry humour and pragmatic outlook on situations. There was almost no inner angst dialogue that you find in so many books that tend to drone on and on which I was very glad about. And I really appreciate the natural evolution of storytelling and progression of relationships and events laid out. Just purchased book two and I will be starting it immediately.