If All Else Sails-Audio review

Title: If All Else Sails Audio Review

Author: Emma St. Clair

Narrators: Andi Arndt and Patrick Zeller 

Publisher: Thomas Nelson Audible Audio

Genre: Contemporary Romance, Fiction,

Source: Net Galley

My Review:

I enjoyed this story when I read it earlier this year, and I enjoyed it just as much, if not more, when I listened to it.

I enjoyed the female narrator, but I struggled with the male narrator. As Wyatt, sometimes he would yell. The volume would get really loud, then you would turn it down, and then he would get soft, almost like he was whispering or mumbling, and you had to turn it back up. It was very distracting.  A more consistent volume would have made a world of difference.

Read for:

⛵brother's best friend

⛵sailing adventure

⛵Jib and her outfits

⛵matching outfits

⛵He falls first

⛵forced proximity 

⛵witty banter

⛵slow-burn romance

⛵enemies to more

⛵hockey romance

⛵fever-induced conversations

⛵cameos from the Appies

Despite the inconsistencies with the male narrator, this was still an enjoyable story, not only to listen to, but to read. While it is a rom-com, it has a deeper storyline as well. Wyatt and Josie both have struggles and things they need to overcome. They talk about their issues, which brings them closer together. While they have known each other for years, they have never truly known each other. Their character growth as they let go of their preconceived ideas and actually get to know each other is great. They don't jump from enemies to more, they become friends before stepping into that more category, and I really appreciated it.

Thank you to Net Galley and Thomas Nelson for the opportunity to read this book. I was not required to provide a positive review. All thoughts and opinions are entirely my own.

★★★★/5

Synopsis (Goodreads):  

In this enemies-to-lovers romance, school nurse Josie agrees to help her brother's best friend, hockey player Wyatt, recover from his knee injury . . . oh, and sail down the intercoastal waterway. What could go wrong?

When elementary school nurse Josie arrives to meet her brother for their not-quite-annual summer trip, instead of finding Jacob, she discovers she has been duped. Jacob can't take off work for a trip and instead is calling in a huge favor from Josie: helping his best friend recover from surgery. Wyatt is the perpetual grump, a famous hockey player Josie has never particularly liked, and a terrible patient. His foot is in bad shape, but nowhere near as bad as his surly attitude.

Begrudgingly, Josie agrees to stay for a week that becomes two. But when she finds out that Wyatt's injury ruined his plans to sail down the east coast on the Intracoastal Waterway, Josie surprises them both by agreeing to be his second set of hands.

Smooth sailing is nowhere to be found, and Wyatt is one cranky captain. With one disaster after another slowing their progress, Josie questions if they'll even be able to make it home without killing--or kissing?--each other. And yet, the longer they share cramped quarters and canned food, the more of Wyatt's layers she peels back until Josie realizes she misunderstood him and perhaps herself as well.