The Fine Print by Lauren Asher

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Rowan

I’m in the business of creating fairy tales. Theme parks. Production companies. Five-star hotels. Everything could be all mine if I renovated Dreamland. My initial idea of hiring Zahra was good in theory, but then I kissed her. Things spiraled out of control once I texted her using an alias. By the time I realized where I went wrong, it was too late.

People like me don’t get happy endings. Not when we’re destined to ruin them.

Zahra

After submitting a drunk proposal criticizing Dreamland’s most expensive ride, I should have been fired. Instead, Rowan Kane offered me a dream job. The catch? I had to work for the most difficult boss I’d ever met.

Rowan was rude and completely off-limits, but my heart didn’t care. At least not until I discovered his secret. It was time to teach the billionaire that money couldn’t fix everything. Especially not us.

The Fine Print

The dreamiest place on earth!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙💜❤️💚💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 🤓😀😘☺️
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙

The Hero: Rowan – when his grandfather and CEO of a multibillion-dollar industry dies, he has some serious demands in his will. Each of his grandsons must take on a project within their portfolio of Companies (including Dreamland theme parks, hotels, restaurants and movie production companies) and raise their return on investment by a certain percentage. If they don’t succeed, then their inheritance will go to their father. None of the grandson’s is fond of their alcoholic father, especially Rowan who was always treated the worst by his father, who constantly called him weak and a failure.

The heroine: Zahra – she works in the Dreamland theme park in Florida at the salon where they give kids makeovers and dress them in costumes of the princes and princesses that the park is themed after. Though she has always wanted to be a park creator. She had worked hard on her ideas that the park employees can submit each year. She had worked on it for a long time with Brady (Rowan’s grandfather) though after Rowan was in an accident, Zahra’s cheating ex-boyfriend Lance stole her idea, changed it and submitted it as his own and it was built and is now what she considers a monstrosity.

The Story: When Rowan allows the park employees to submit suggestions again this year, Zahra gets drunk and writes up her original proposal, with some choice words about what that part of the park is now. She plans to save her proposal as a draft and fix it in the morning but accidentally clicks submit. Rowan likes Zahra’s submission and hires her as a creator.

I liked the dynamic between Zahra and Rowan. Rowan certainly sees Zahra’s value to the amusement park right away, but from their first meeting they rub each other the wrong way and the bickering between them is fun. They are attracted to each other from the start as well, so the chemistry between them is steamy from the very beginning.

I have read quite a few books lately where the alpha male Hero is suffering from daddy issues, and I am getting a bit sick of the trope. I guess I like my alpha Heroes to be totally in control and not suffering from insecurities like normal people. Rowan seems to doubt himself quite a bit and he often remembers times when his father put him down for one thing or another. Though, I do like it when the troubled Hero finally gets over his issues and gets some revenge on the jerk of a father.

I love the fact that working at the park gives Rowan a new view on some of the cuts he made a few years ago that helped the company’s bottom line quite a bit. He finds that employee wages and benefits aren’t sufficient for the employees, and he learns that making employees happy actually has benefits to the company that he never thought of. Too bad more executives in the world can’t learn that message. This was one of those books that was mainly about the relationship between the two main characters. I like that sometimes, when it isn’t insta-love or suspense and intrigue, but just the building of a relationship between two people.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Aiden Snow and Desiree Ketchum. I like both of these narrators. Desiree has a soft, feminine voice and though she is not terrific at doing different voices for different female characters, I do really like her voice. Aiden Snow is one of my all-time favorite male narrators. He has a deep, sexy voice which is perfect for Rowan and is great at doing different voices for different characters.

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