Three Weddings and a Baby by Crystal Monroe

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Three weddings as my boss’s fake date.
One baby I didn’t count on.

Trent “Diablo” Dillon.
He’s my devilishly hot boss, and he’s gonna make my money problems disappear.
The catch?
Pretend to be his girlfriend at three weddings this summer.
He needs to get his pushy family off his back.
I need a windfall.
Besides, I’m used to dealing with Trent’s demands at work.

But sharing a bed with my fake boyfriend is more than I can take.
After one sizzling night, I’m addicted to his rock hard… er, abs .

The craziest part?
I’m falling for my grumpy boss.
The one who plans to never settle down.

My feelings for him are real.
And so is this baby I’m having in nine months.

Three Weddings and a Baby

Grumpy boss trope!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: ☺️😊🙃😋
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Bella – she lost her father when she was seventeen in an accident and her mother a few years later. She was an only child, and her parents were both foster kids, so she had no extended family or grandparents either. She had her best friend, but sometimes got lonely for family. She worked as executive assistant to the owner of the company, Trent “Diablo” Dillon. Everyone at the company called him Diablo behind his back because he was always grumpy, and he liked things done right.

The Hero: Trent – he had devoted himself to his work over the last few years. He had been in a relationship before that, but he was no stranger to heartbreak, so hadn’t dated anyone steadily since then. So when he gets invitations to three family weddings over the next few months, he decides he has to do something drastic to keep his interfering family from setting him up with everyone and their sister.

The story: When Bella suggests to Trent that he get an escort to go to the destination weddings with him. He immediately turns that idea down. He doesn’t want a professional but bringing someone who knows him but won’t get any romantic ideas sounds like a good plan. So, he suggests Bella accompany him. He offers to pay her a nice lump sum which she could use for her student loans and living in Los Angeles is not cheap. Though they didn’t consider the attraction they had for each other. Keeping things unemotional wasn’t going to be as easy as they thought.

I liked both characters quite a bit. Trent did not really like hanging around with his family for some reason, but Bella loved it since she was all alone in the world and his outgoing and gregarious relatives really included her as part of the family from the start. I also loved the fact that things got super steamy their first night together and they both tried to back off and keep things professional despite the fact that they couldn’t think of anything besides each other.

This audiobook was told in two points of view via duet narration and was narrated by Christian Black and Samantha Brentmoor. Christian Black has a nice deep voice, and he sounded age appropriate for Trent who is in his early 40’s. Though you can definitely tell he is reading. He has this tempo where he kind of pauses at the end of each sentence that doesn’t always sound natural. Samantha Brentmoor has a great voice and I like that she has a completely different voice for Bella’s best friend. Though her man voice wasn’t my favorite, it was low, but a bit sinister sounding.

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