I had to laugh when Sandie Herron told me she finally had a review of a current audiobook, Alyssa Kay Adams’ Isn’t It Bromantic? It’s the fourth installment in the Bromance Book Club series. I hope you enjoy Sandie’s review!
Isn’t It Bromantic?
Written by Lyssa Kay Adams
Narrated by Andrew Eiden
Series: Bromance Book Club, Book 4
Unabridged Audiobook
Penguin Audio (July 20, 2021)
Length: 9 hours and 55 minutes
The male movers and shakers and professional athletes of Nashville who are members of the Bromance Book Club are happily enjoying one of their own’s wedding when Elena Konnikova arrives to meet her husband Vlad aka The Russian. Having never seen her before, even though the couple has been married for six years, the group is in awe of her beauty, until they learn that the purpose of her visit is to tell Vlad she is done with journalism school, she wishes to return to Russia and needs a divorce. Vlad knows that their marriage has been one of convenience, that they have never really been husband and wife. He proposed to his childhood friend when she expressed her interest in following him to the United States to get her master’s degree.
It takes a nasty fall on the ice just before the NHL playoffs and Vlad’s broken leg to get Elena back into his home. He will need help recovering and rehabbing, and she has the time now to help. Elena is surprised to find a group of women in Vlad’s kitchen who claim to be the Loners Club, neighbors without mates, of whom Vlad is a key member. But when Vlad needs help bathing, he calls the men of the Bromance Book Club when he confesses the situation with Elena.
Elena feels obligated to pamper Vlad to pay him back for all he has done for her. In doing so, the feelings of attraction she once had resurface. Vlad has been equally attracted to her but felt romance was hopeless despite his love for her. Vlad has even been writing his own romance entitled The Promise, which he shares with the reader and his buddies. As they review the novel, much of their knowledge from reading romance novels surfaces, and they offer it to Vlad. They help him recreate a scene at his home, the one Vlad set when Elena first joined him in the US, so they could start over.
Still, Elena is determined to discover what happened to her father, many years ago, when he disappeared in Russia over an article he was writing. She is in grave danger since retracing her father’s investigation into human trafficking. She simply cannot vanish as he did. What would Vlad do?
I stopped everything I was doing to listen to the end of this fabulous novel. I was riveted to find out if Elena finally discovers what happened to her father. I was anxious to discover if Vlad and Elena could find their happily ever after. Narrator Andrew Eiden did an excellent job of animating the story even further than the words on the page. His accents for “The Russian” and Elena were authentic. I so very much enjoyed visiting this group of friends who have become family to one another, celebrating victories and helping with hardships in this fourth Bromance Club adventure. Mostly, I was cheering on Vlad and Elena in their romance to find each other, for the very first time.
