Recent Release Audiobook Review: The Problem with Perfect by Philip William Stover, Performed by John Solo

08 July of 2023 by ButtonsMom2003

The Problem with Perfect By Philip William Stover, Performed by John Solo

Genre: Contemporary Romance, Rom-Com, GLBTQ, MM

Tropes: TV lifestyle show

Released: Audio: June 27, 2023; eBook: May 11, 2023

Publisher: Hera

Length: 295 pages / 8 hrs, 49 mins

Synopsis

When style is everything, will Ethan learn that true beauty is on the inside?

Chase Myles can throw together a dinner party or redecorate a townhouse with jaw-dropping elegance. Followers scroll his Insta and see effortless workouts, exotic travel, and an adoring boyfriend. The world believes Chase is a style icon. The world is mistaken.

Ethan Wells is actually the one who knows what to wear, what to eat, and how to do it but he’s happy staying behind the scenes producing their hit LGBTQ show Myles of Style. When Chase walks off set just before the Pride live TV show that will make or break Ethan’s career, Ethan thinks it’s just another tantrum . . . until Chase’s Instagram shows him partying in Abu Dhabi.

Out of options, Ethan drives up to rural New York to convince Chase’s estranged twin, Beau, to pass him off as Chase for a week, but Ethan finds a hairy, rugged mountain man who couldn’t be more different from his social butterfly, influencer brother.

Can Ethan transform Beau into the star of the show and fool his bosses and Chase’s followers? And when Beau turns out to be kind, romantic, and everything that Chase is not, does he really want Chase back, anyway?

Contains mature themes.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

The author’s letter at the end was perfect.

Confession: I received a review copy of the eBook of The Problem with Perfect from NetGalley but I didn’t read it. Why? Because I found out that one of my favorite audiobook performers was doing the audio for Tantor. So, I waited for it to become available then things happened and I just now made time to listen to it. I loved it!

The blurb pretty much says everything you need to know about the story but I need to say how much I liked all of the characters. I even liked Chase who I’m sure we were supposed to dislike. The voice that John Solo used for his character was so perfect. All of the voices he used were really fantastic and made listening to this story such a pleasure.

Beau did such good things for Ethan. Not only helping him out of a jam but also helping Ethan realize that he wasn’t really following his dream by producing Myles of Style.

I was particularly happy that the audiobook included a reading of the author’s letter at the end of the story. It was a very heartfelt letter about his reasons for writing this book and it really touched me. This was my third Philip William Stover book and I’ve loved all of them.

p.s. I’ve read some of the less complimentary reviews and don’t quite understand them but to each his own; no book is a good fit for every reader who picks it up. I will say that I think listening to the audiobook may have enhanced my enjoyment of this story and I’m really glad I chose to wait and listen to it.

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O Factor: Sweet

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About Author

Philip William Stover

Philip William Stover splits his time between Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and New York City. He has an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications and an MFA in writing. He is a clinical professor at New York University. As a freelance journalist, his essays and reviews have appeared in Newsday, The Forward, the Tony Awards, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Houston Chronicle, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and other national publications. For many years he ghosted with an international best-selling women’s fiction author. He has published multiple middle-grade novels for Simon & Schuster and was the American Theater critic for About.com.

He grew up tearing the covers off the romance novels he devoured so he wouldn’t get teased at school. Now he enjoys traveling the world with his husband of over twenty years as much as sitting on the couch with their beloved Ba-shar (Bassett Hound/Shar-Pei mix). He would never consider defacing any of the books he loves.

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