Let's Make A Scene by Laura Wood

 

Thank you Simon Audio for the gifted ALC.  

Let’s Make a Scene by Laura Wood and read by Heather Long and Sam Stafford was such a fun book. Cynthia Taylor just had a PR disaster in her life and is open when her agent tells her about an opportunity to make a sequel to her vert first movie. The hitch is that she must also make a documentary about her “pretend” love life with Jack who is her nemesis from years ago. But she really needs this film to work and so does Jack.

This was a fun story with all the feels for me. Cynthia and Jack had great chemistry, banter, and I found them endearing. It was a pleasure to get to know Cynthia and Jack, and I was rooting for their happily ever after. The dual time-line allowed me to see their relationship, friendship and how they matured throughout the book.

The two narrators did an excellent helping the story to come alive for me. I felt very engaged as I listened to both and it helped me to keep everything straight in the two time-lines. The audio made the book for me.

Let’s Make a Scene by Laura Wood read by Heather Long and Sam Stafford is a great listen with a lovely ending. I was very invested and sad for the story to end. I highly recommend!

Thank you, Simon audio, for the gifted copy. All thoughts are my own. 

Laura Wood is a bestselling author whose first novel won the Montegrappa Scholastic Prize for New Children's Writing in 2014. She also has a PhD in nineteenth century literature from the University of Warwick.​

Her middle-grade novels have been shortlisted for the Sainsbury's Children's Book Awards and the Blue Peter Book Awards, while her YA novels have been shortlisted for the YA Book Awards, the Books are My Bag Awards and the Romantic Novelist's Association Awards.Her debut adult novel, Under Your Spell, published in 2024 and has sold into seventeen languages.

Laura lives in Warwickshire with her husband, and their dog, Bea. Her favourite things include: Reading romance novels, Fred Astaire films, cups of tea, fancy cocktails, recipe books, poetry, cosy woollen cardigans, crisp autumn leaves, Rufus Sewell's cheekbones, Being near