The Roundabout

By: Gerri Hill

Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella

Megan Phenix - bar and grill owner in gay-friendly Eureka Springs - is labeled as "playing hard to get" and finds herself the object of much unwanted attention. If only she were seeing someone...maybe the women would leave her in peace.

Leah Rollins thinks 50 is too young to retire, so instead she opens a store in the touristy shopping district of Eureka Springs, next to the popular Phenix Grill. She soon learns that Megan Phenix is a bit on the grumpy side as they spar over parking spaces and anything else they can find to argue about. When Leah catches the attention of the multitude of single lesbians in town, she searches for a way out. Could the grumpy grill owner next door be the answer to her problems?

Megan and Leah strike an unlikely alliance and conspire to rid themselves of the unwanted attention by fake dating. Can they pull it off?

As they pretend to date and convince everyone in town that they really are a couple, the pretense becomes harder to hold on to. But there's just one problem...they don't really like each other.

Or do they?

©2016 Gerri Hill (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

Funny and entertaining

One of Gerry Hills best. Very comical great characters in a small gay friendly town where everyone knows everyone as well as everyone’s business.

Narration was great. I finished the 2 nd day. Worth a credit!

Little San Francisco, Snark, LOL, & Social Wake-up

I grew up in Eureka Springs. I've been away for more years than I lived there, but it's hard to get some of that place out of one's system. I imagined the Phoenix where the five and dime sits, and the book store where McGees and the New Age book store sit/sat on Spring Street. There's a steak house down from those two that would suffice, location-wise.

"The funny" in that town is that it's a backwater cosmopolitan with hills and chalets. It's been described as Little San Francisco, particularly in the 70s and 80s. It's nickname, "for serious", is Little Switzerland. It comes complete with rustic Czech, Pollyanna French, an opera school to rival NYC, a seven-story Christ replica of the one found in South America, "cricks" not "creeks, seven generations of Buchanans, and is in the Heart of the Ozarks, 30 miles south of Branson, "Mazura" (Missouri) as the crow flies. It's produced more poets, artists, actors, actresses, college-graduating magma and summa cum laude, and Rhode Scholars than any piece of the south should have. It was the primary filming location for Pass the Ammo with Tim Curry, as well as the Blue and the Grey with Stacey Keech and Gregory Peck. It's odd place from top to bottom.

Anyway, I enjoyed this break from death, violence and mayhem. I think the author was attempting to support social awareness, not blindly accept or suggest supporting harassment. There are a lot of people who still don't get the harm that can be done when someone's personal mess is spilled on the Internet. It is 't funny and shouldn't be rewarded. On the other hand, should one give credence to the innuendos and image as any form of media presents it? Half of anything on the internet is BS. The rest is either marketing, pr, or self-agradizement. Reality is real and sometimes harsh.

Hmmm?

I like books by GH and I get where she was going with this one. Was not a fan of the serial harassment nor the cyber bulling however that stuff happens every day. The characters were weak compared to other books I've read from this author so for me that's the thing that had me putting the book down in the middle of the story of course the narrator no offense to this particular narrated however voice was just so annoying there was no real differentiation between the characters voices for me it just sounded like one long monologue again I'm not familiar with this particular narrator and sometimes one story for a particular narrator just doesn't suit your voice so this isn't necessarily a knock on the narrator but it is something to consider.

I have listened to this book over 100 times

I love this author and narrator combo. I listen to this almost ever night to fall asleep. I love that it is funny, romantic and happy. I would definitely recommend. I hope we get more books like this soon.

love the humor

enjoyed all the humor between the characters I laughed so much really enjoy all of her books