Layer by Layer by Kaylee Ryan

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Sawyer 

From the first moment I sit next to the sexy suit on the plane, the butterflies in my stomach have nothing to do with turbulence and everything to do with the way he’s looking at me. 

When we land, he gives me his number, and I promise to call. Before I get the chance, we meet again. 

It turns out he’s my new boss and nothing like the gentle stranger from the plane. 

The longer I’m with Royce, the more I realize he has many layers, and I want to uncover them all one by one. 

If only he would let me in. 



Royce 

Being CEO requires all of my focus, but I can’t stop thinking about the gorgeous woman from the plane with the gorgeous blonde hair and striking green eyes. 

Sawyer Gibson is beautiful, intelligent, and very much off-limits. A line I shouldn’t cross. 

Until I do… and there’s no going back.

I want all of her, but she deserves more than my hardened heart can give. 


No matter how hard I try, I can’t escape her.

Layer by Layer

Boss/assistant romance!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 🙂🥰☺️
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Sawyer – she recently quit her job when she was threatened with being fired for kicking her boss in the balls after he made a pass at her. She starts a new job in a week and needs time to get settled in Nashville. She wanted to get as far away from San Francisco as she could get, so the job in Nashville sounded like her best option. Her friends moved there a year ago, so she won’t be totally alone in the city. She is terrified of flying, so when she finds herself on a plane in first class, she is very nervous.

The Hero: Royce – He is CEO of Riggins Enterprises, a multi-billion-dollar company. He works with his brothers, and he is a bit spoiled in that he is used to traveling by company jet, so when the jet is unavailable due to being serviced, he travels by first class, but thinks about getting another jet so this wouldn’t happen again. He plans on resting during the flight but finds that the passenger next to him is hard to ignore.

The Story: Royce has never seen anyone so terrified of flying, so he tries to calm Sawyer down even though he doesn’t usually make small talk. He finds himself getting interested in Sawyer and what made her so afraid of heights and flying. They talk for quite a while and Royce finds himself wanting to know more about her and acting in a way that is unusual for him. He is attracted to her and feels something in a way that he hasn’t felt anything for a long time. When the plane lands, he tells her he would like to see her again and he gives her his number.

Royce and Sawyer find out the following week that he is her new boss. He doesn’t like change very much and is unhappy with his best friend who fell for his former assistant and got her pregnant, which is why he is in need of a new executive assistant. I have always liked the boss/employee trope. This one was especially good because despite how he acted on the plane, Royce is a bit of a grumpy, broody workaholic.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Curt Bonnem and Elizabeth Hart. Curt Bonnem does a good job though he has a very gravelly voice. I am not sure if I like it or not. His voice for the female characters is not great though. Elizabeth Hart is one of those narrators that I don’t really like, since she has a voice that bothers me for some reason. Though I decided to still listen to this book because it sounded like a good one.

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