On a Night Like This
Series: Winter Nights, Book 3
By: Liz Maverick / Narrated By: Dara Rosenberg, Andrew Eiden
Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
Sweet, so sweet, like, Uber Sweet… oh thank GOSH…!
It’s like this, see…
The Holidays have been upon us since, like, before Halloween, causing a low-grade migraine of tension cuz, dude! I haaate the mass-consumerism crammed down m’ throat. Worse? I get posts on m’ Facebook feed (My End of Life Doula organization is there, otherwise…?), from a fellow Doula who is temperamental. and morbidly sensitive to social issues. Every. Single. Post is about how SUICIDES ARE UP from Nov. to Jan., and how FAMILIES OF ORIGIN SOW HEARTBREAK, and things of that ilk. They’re all unwanted reminders of how completely, how totally, how unmitigated Life’s Suck can be.
Hence?
Dude, I just wanna Listen to sweet this year, to charm, to HEAs (Happily Ever After)s.
And so for Hanukkah, this year’s offering of On A Night Like This did NOT start like that, and Ky-YIIII was I worried.
Cher (Short for Cheryl) has her life in a tailspin. Dumped by her fiancé, just lost her job, but she’s determined to make the best of it. For Hanukkah, she’s Swapped Abodes, her place in L.A. for an apartment in New York City. Right away she’s enchanted by the snow, until she isn’t (it’s cooold!). So I was worried right off the bat she was going to spend the book throwing snits. Further, Elliot, hot guy who lives in the building, is rude rude rude as he tries to leave unwanted items on the stoop riiiiight as Cher needs to get her luggage upstairs.
Ah jeez. This is gonna be an Enemies to Lovers trope, which I haaaaate.
But ya know what?
That’s it. That’s ALL the tension in this story.
The two are attracted to each other; they’re kind to each other. And this book in a series of this particular friend group has Cher immediately welcomed into their flock. Further? There’s Hanukkah in it, like, really. Not just, ooooh well, this happens during with nary a mention otherwise.
No, Cher wants it all, the decorations, the festivities, the Hanukkah drunken shenanigans complete with ill-advised pics being posted on social media.
Speaking of drunken shenanigans, Dara Rosenberg’s narration gets a chuckle from me for that. While she’s a trifle overenthusiastic with her portrayal of the EFFUSIVE Cher? Well, at least Rosenberg gives it her all when she’s Cher as a drunken sot, throwing in a mighty fine slur… to be followed with embarrassed chagrin the morning after. Yeh yeh yeh, some shrillness otherwise, but Brava to a narrator who Goes There!
And Andrew Eiden. Consummate professional, smoother ‘n silk, he had Elliot being kind, being embarrassed, being disappointed, being All In, being hopeful, being incredibly happy.
Do NOT expect much in the way of tension, with only a TAD turning up at the end, and evaporating, like, posthaste.
NAH, just a short listen, just a charming listen of two nice people getting to know each other, falling hard, and so many many little bows tying things up in the end as to make you kinda sorta cringe. But hey!
Thank GOSH, and thank you author Liz Maverick.
Cuz I really really reeeeeaaally was in the mood for No-Jerks-Sweet.
>PHEW<
Happy Hanukkah, y’all!!!
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