Want to hear a sexy bayou boy? Listen to this!

My Best Friend’s Mardi Gras Wedding is a fun book in the Boys of the Bayou series by Erin Nicholas. Josh Landry is a happy-go-lucky guy living on the bayou and running a tour boat business with his family. He also tended bar in New Orleans. It was during one of these jobs that he met Tori, Victoria Kramer, a vet from Iowa. He was in love. He was so in love that he hadn’t bedded any other women for a year. They had agreed, well, he had, that they would meet in the same bar on Mardi Gras in a year if they wanted to. He wanted to. He was working somewhere else now and had made the trek from Trahan’s to meet her four times. No Tori. But, Tori was there. He had missed her. She was part of a wedding party and had been sent by the bride to keep an eye on the groom and his party. Tori was so desperate to see Josh that she kissed a man she thought was he. He wasn’t, but in her defense, he had been wearing a mask. He was the groom: her best friend, Andrew, the woman the bride was already jealous of. Talk about trouble.

This is the cutest love story ever. Josh, from a family with multiple stories of romance and big gestures, was head-over-heels for Tori and couldn’t wait for more. Tori wanted to be in love. She was so attracted to Josh. She wanted someone to love her and there he was. He liked her for who she was, all her quirks and oddities that embarrassed Andrew and her father. Josh laughed. He put her first, though of her and what she liked. It was such a love story. And not lacking in big gestures. I love this book; I love this series. There are plenty of twists and turns on the road to love and Josh Landry is the ideal man to make the journey with.

I have read the book before and this time I listened to it on audio. The narrator/Josh (Neill Thorne) was ideal. He had just enough of a bayou accent to make it sexy. The other narrator, Amanda Stribling, was adequate but portrayed Tori as too tentative, all the time. None-the-less, it was a totally enjoyable experience to listen to this wonderful story come to life. I recommend either the book or audio, or both.

I was invited to listen to a free copy of Audible’s My Best Friend’s Mardi Gras Wedding by the author. All opinions contained herein are solely my own.