• The CEO

  • CEO, Book 1
  • By: Emily Hayes
  • Narrated by: Abby Craden
  • Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)

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The CEO

By: Emily Hayes
Narrated by: Abby Craden
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Publisher's summary

Can the right woman be enough to thaw the Ice Queen's heart?

Eva Perez is the CEO of one of the biggest and most successful companies in her industry in the United States. She has everything she could ever need or want in life. She is confident she doesn't need a girlfriend to complete her.

Most women fall at Eva's feet, so when a young woman turns up for an interview with her, who seems completely unphased by her power, Eva is intrigued.

Madison is captivating and exciting to Eva and sparks fly between them right from the start.

Will Madison ever be able to melt Eva's frosty heart?

Contains mature themes.

©2022 Emily Hayes (P)2024 Tantor

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Abby Craden did an excellent job of bringing the characters to life. The sex was hot and I like when the Ice Queen melts.

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So very good.

The entire series is a good one invest your time. Abby Craden did a superb job bringing Emily Hayes words to life, can’t wait to listen to hopefully the rest of the series.

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I love books like this one

Love age gap, status gap, business novels … and when Abby Craden is the narrator they are even better than that.

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Big Potential, Massive Letdown

The first few chapters were so promising! A platform by which to launch this story into the stratosphere of popularity. Instead, it nose dived then face planted directly onto the sticky, tar covered asphalt.

The length of the book should have clued me into how rushed and unimpressive the story would be, but I thought, hey, maybe they’ll surprise me. Nope.

3 hours and 45 minutes isn’t nearly enough time to let the story breath and this one was suffocating.

The inconsistencies began to pile up a few chapters in, becoming more and more glaring with each passing scene. In the beginning the two MCs were intriguing, intelligent, mysterious and complex. By the last half of the book they had turned into vapid, cheesy, superficial simpletons.

The epilogue was so terribly Pollyanna that I nearly detached my retinas from how hard I was rolling my eyes.

The main characters have about as much depth as a sidewalk puddle after a light rain, and the supporting characters were essentially mannequins standing in the background.

It was as if randomly selected pieces from ten different jigsaw puzzles were forcibly jammed together to form an unsettling image of incongruity. The characters actions, like the puzzle pieces, didn’t fit the big picture. Everything felt forced and inorganic. It reminded me of a last minute term paper; hastily thrown together so as to at least receive a pass.

Basically, it was a skeleton with no meat.

The only reason I gave two stars instead of one was because of the narration. But even the incomparable Abby Craden, Queen of lesfic narration that she is, seemed to struggle with the lack of substance. And honestly, she deserves better. She should be narrating books like “And Playing the Role of Herself”, “Jericho” and “Curious Wine”, not sequestered to these hurried and disappointing plots.

I recommend skipping this one.

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