My Brother’s Billionaire Best Friend by Max Monroe

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Mabel “Maybe” Willis died a virgin at the very young age of twenty-four. She leaves behind her parents, Betty and Bruce, her brother, Evan, a laptop filled with one too many Jason Momoa memes, and a Kindle library with more books than one human being could ever finish in a lifetime.
Cause of death: a text message.

Okay. So, I didn’t die.
But I may as well have.

One minute, I’m a woman trying to find her way in the world, and the next, I’m the sender of six of the most embarrassing text messages that have ever been sent in the history of time–or the cell phone. Whatever.

We’re talking code red, send a flipping mayday, the apocalypse is coming kind of texts.

And I didn’t just send them to some random person I’ll never see again.
No. That would be too easy.

I sent them to Milo Ives.

The man who played a starring role in all of my teenage fantasies–and my brother’s lifelong best friend.
And, boy oh boy, has he grown up.
He’s hard-bodied, blue-eyed, jawline-of-stone handsome, crazy successful, and has more money in his bank account than my brain can fathom.

Deflower me, please? I said.

Yeah. Send help.

My Brother’s Billionaire Best Friend

Cute romantic comedy!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙❤️💚💜
Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎
Character development: 😊😘😟
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Mable Willis (a.k.a. Maybe) – she recently graduated from Stanford University and returned home to New York to hopefully find a job in publishing, though she hasn’t had much luck yet. She has had a crush on her brother’s best friend Milo Ives since she was young, and her brother asked Milo to see if he could use his contacts in the publishing industry to get Maybe an interview. Did I mention she is still a virgin and no longer wants to be. I have a tough time believing that someone who isn’t saving themselves for marriage or hasn’t taken a vow of celibacy to still be a virgin by the time she finishes graduate school.

The Hero: Milo Ives – billionaire best friend of Maybe’s brother, Evan who is the CFO for Milo’s company. Milo stayed with the Willis family for half of his senior year in high school after his parents moved out of state. He stops into their family flower shop in New York every few weeks or so but doesn’t recognize Maybe who is working behind the counter, because he hasn’t seen her since she was about thirteen years old.

The Story: Maybe is a self-proclaimed disenchanted introvert. At one point she puts Milo’s number into her phone, the number she got off the computer at her parents’ flower shop. When maybe is drugged after oral surgery, she mistakenly sends Milo a text asking him to help her get rid of her virginity. Though not in quite those terms. She is of course, utterly embarrassed afterwards but gets through that and they continue to see and text each other, becoming friends. The book is a slow burn despite the text. I am not too fond of the slow burn, but I have liked Max Monroe books in the past and this turned out to be pretty good.

I liked the fact that Maybe had trouble getting a job in publishing after graduating from college. I, like her, had a degree in English Literature and never did find a job like that. I ended up working in software development after getting an MBA years later. Though she did have her masters and Stanford is a bit more prestigious than the University of Minnesota. Still most people don’t get their dream job right out of college.

I also liked the fact that she was nicknamed Maybe because her family didn’t think she would grow into the name Mable until she was in her 80’s or so. Her family was pretty funny, and I loved that her father’s name was Bruce Willis. The supporting characters in this book were well developed and likable. I really liked Lena, the barista and the entire Willis family.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Elizabeth Hart and Nelson Hobbs. I am not too fond of Elizabeth Hart’s narration, her voice is a bit nasal and annoying, though I did continue to listen anyway. Nelson Hobbs wasn’t bad though, he had a clear voice and sounded quite cultured, so it fit well for the Billionaire.

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