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Ready or Not: A Novel Audiobook, by Cara Bastone Play Audiobook Sample

Ready or Not: A Novel Audiobook

Ready or Not: A Novel Audiobook, by Cara Bastone Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Alex Finke Publisher: Random House Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 7.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: February 2024 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780593796023

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

34

Longest Chapter Length:

34:28 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

08 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

19:08 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

3

Other Audiobooks Written by Cara Bastone: > View All...

Publisher Description

A surprise pregnancy leads to even more life-changing revelations in this heartfelt, slow-burn, friends-to-lovers romance of found family and unexpected love.

“Bastone delivers on this truly heartwarming, funny, and real story. Come for the dog bar, stay for the special, slow-burn romcom.”—Abby Jimenez, New York Times bestselling author


Eve Hatch lives for surprises! Just kidding. She expects every tomorrow to be pretty much the same as today. She loves her cozy apartment in Brooklyn that’s close to her childhood best friend Willa, and far from her midwestern, traditional family who has never really understood her. While her job is only dream-adjacent, it’s comfortable and steady. She always knows what to expect from her life . . . until she finds herself expecting after an uncharacteristic one-night stand.

The unplanned pregnancy cracks open all the relationships in her life. Eve’s loyal friendship with Willa is feeling tense, right when she needs her the most. And it’s actually Willa’s steadfast older brother, Shep, who steps up to help Eve. He has always been friendly, but now he’s checking in, ordering her surprise lunches, listening to all her complaints, and is . . . suddenly kinda hot? Then, as if she needs one more complication, there’s the baby’s father, who is (technically) supportive but (majorly) conflicted.

Up until this point, Eve’s been content to coast through life. Now, though—maybe it’s the hormones, maybe it’s the way Shep’s shoulders look in a T-shirt—Eve starts to wonder if she has been secretly desiring more from every aspect of her life.

Over the course of nine months, as Eve struggles to figure out the next right step in her expanding reality, she begins to realize that family and love, in all forms, can sneak up on you when you least expect it.

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"An absolute treasure of a book! Cara Bastone gives readers a gift, and pays humanity a compliment, with this warmly witty, profoundly tender story of a love that makes the world bigger and better. Ready or Not introduces indelible characters who navigate their entanglements with abundant, heart-bursting kindness. The result is one of the most emotionally satisfying romances I've read in years."

— Joanna Lowell, author of Artfully Yours

Quotes

  • “Ready or Not is the very definition of the perfect slow burn, friends-to-lovers romance. Cara Bastone’s voice is wholly unique and sparkles with effervescence and joy. I savored every page.

    — KJ Dell’Antonia, New York Times bestselling author of The Chicken Sisters
  • Bastone delivers on this truly heartwarming, funny, and real story. Come for the dog bar, stay for the special, slow-burn romcom.

    — Abby Jimenez, New York Times bestselling author
  • “With loads of humor, loveable characters, and a first kiss that will leave you flushed and breathless, Ready or Not is a delightfully romantic story that celebrates modern love and the excitement of the unexpected. Readers will adore Cara Bastone’s joyful, swoony novel!

    — Amy Poeppel, author of The Sweet Spot
  • With loads of humor, lovable characters, and a first kiss that will leave you flushed and breathless, Ready or Not is a delightfully romantic story that celebrates modern love and the excitement of the unexpected. Readers will adore Cara Bastone’s joyful, swoony novel!

    — Amy Poeppel, author of The Sweet Spot
  • Bastone delivers on this truly heartwarming, funny, and real story.

    — Abby Jimenez, New York Times bestselling author
  • “Ready or Not is the very definition of the perfect slow burn, friends-to-lovers romance. Cara Bastone’s voice is wholly unique and sparkles with effervescence and joy. I savored every page.

    — KJ Dell’Antonia, New York Times bestselling author of The Chicken Sisters
  • A wholehearted meditation on all kinds of love, this novel is pure joy.

    — Annabel Monaghan, nationally bestselling author of Same Time Next Summer
  • Ready or Not is the very definition of the perfect slow burn, friends-to-lovers romance. Cara Bastone’s voice is wholly unique and sparkles with effervescence and joy. I savored every page.

    — KJ Dell’Antonia, New York Times bestselling author of The Chicken Sisters
  • With loads of humor, lovable characters, and a first kiss that will leave you flushed and breathless, Ready or Not is a delightfully romantic story that celebrates modern love and the excitement of the unexpected. Readers will adore Cara Bastone’s joyful, swoony novel!

    — Amy Poeppel, author of The Sweet Spot
  • [A] truly heartwarming emotional journey . . . Bastone is wonderfully unflinching when considering the way pregnancy changes relationships . . . Funny and touching; Eve’s snappy voice and poignant vulnerability are a good match for the subject matter.

    — Kirkus Reviews

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About Cara Bastone

Cara Bastone is a full-time writer, the author of the Forever Yours and the Love Lines romance series. She has been a fan of the romance genre since she found a grocery bag filled with her grandmother’s old Harlequin Romances when she was in high school.