**Audiobook Review**

From the moment this book was announced, I couldn’t wait to listen to it. “An American in London” is a swoony, flirty and heartfelt fake dating billionaire romance that was such a fun listen.

Tuesday Reynolds’ life in NYC has turned upside down when her long time fiance breaks up with her and moves back to Iowa. But her work is sending her to London to prove herself to the new CEO. And one of her first days there, she sees a man who looks like her celebrity crush. And then sees him again the next day. Ben Kelley is a billionaire who has built his wealth and is missing one thing for his portfolio. And he needs a fake fiance to help impress a duke and duchess. The arrangement starts out as planned but as they spend time together, they have a connection neither was expecting. But Tuesday is only in London for a short time and Ben doesn’t do relationships. This is just like the rom-coms Tuesday used to watch with her mom and she’s along for the ride.

This was such a fun book to listen to and I loved that it was all told from Tuesday’s POV. This was a story about finding herself again and needed to be all focused on her. Tuesday is smart, genuine and wants to get the best out of life especially after being dumped by her fiance. London is exactly what she needed at the time. I loved how Tuesday and Ben first met and all the run ins they had after, it was definitely kismet for them. Tuesday was the sunshine while Ben was the classic grump who was focused on one thing. But once she started chipping away at that shell, under was a solid guy with a big heart. And his reasoning for wanting to buy the hotel from the Duke had me swooning hard for him. Their banter had me cracking up but Ben really saw Tuesday for who she was. They got each other from the beginning and were perfect together.

Erin Mallon narrated this audiobook and she did an amazing job. Her narration of Tuesday was fun and genuine just like her. Her male voice is always great and was even better with a British narration for Ben.

Tuesday is hoping to get a leg up at work and maybe turn around her life in New York. Ben is just trying to follow his normal flow and hopes he can convince a family man to sell his hotels.

When Tuesday runs into ben and thinks he's a star from her moms favorite movies she kept help but think its a sign every time she runs into him. He is just trying to ignore her. As a plan hatches he realizes she's not so bad and maybe London Tuesday can find her true self.

This was a cute Grumpy sunshine and what I needed after starting a slump this book pulled me right out and I enjoyed it so much

Thank you Net Galley for this Audio Arc in exchange for my honest thoughts.

Louise Bay delivers another amazing story filled with laughs, serious moments and amazing characters.

What a fun, sweet and delightful story. Ben and Tuesday are quite the pair. They bring out the best in one another and help each other face their challenges. They have amazing banter, chemistry and love for adventure.

Erin Mallon is a go to narrator for me. Her voice is so versatile, strong and she has amazing personality! She gives each of the characters perfect emotion and voice. She is so incredibly talented.

Thank you NetGalley for the complimentary copy.

Omg! This was so good! I got an ALC of this audiobook and I inhaled it! It was so cute! I loved the main characters and several of the side characters, the plot was a bit predictable, but in the very best way. 🥰 It was such a classic romance, filled with plenty of tropes and fake movie references to call out the tropes within the story, which was hilarious! I loved wealthy MMC and normal/struggling FMC, and this was a great example of that.

I also liked that it went deeper than many cute and spicy romances. The characters all had depth to them, with significant backstories that impacted the plot in meaningful ways.

I always love Louise Bay’s books, and this one is no exception. I highly recommend it!

For the audiobook, I enjoyed the narrator. She did an amazing job on injecting emotion into her voice appropriately. It felt very real, and not at all like it was someone reading a book to me, but rather that the FMC was talking to me. She did a good voice for the British MMC too. The only thing I didn’t love was that her voice at the end of her last sentence of each chapter sounded a bit overly dramatic, like she was trying to make the end of each chapter a mini cliffhanger or dramatic pause. But it wasn’t a huge distraction. Overall it was a great audiobook to listen to.

Read and listened to this book, love the story so much but didn’t really connect with the narrator.

Ben and Tuesday story was a delight to read with a mistaken identity and a fake engagement

I loved this audiobook. A woman goes to London for work and ends up finding a man that looks like her childhood celebrity crush! Yes please! The FMC is such a sweet person who always wants to make everyone else happy. I love how far the MMC goes to make her happy. It’s a super sweet story!

Loved the audio. The narrator brought it to life. This was a perfect story to lose yourself in. It had me laughing and crying. I did not want it to end. This was my first book by Louise Bay, I will be reading all her work.

When Tuesday Reynolds finds her life turned upside down because of a cheating fiancé, she makes the decision to head to London for a work training. The hotel she is staying at is hosting a convention celebrating her childhood crush, the British actor, Daniel DeLuca. She's determined to "run" into him while she's there.

Instead of running into him, she meets the grumpy billionaire, Ben Kelley. His broody persona is a perfect match to Tuesday's optimistic outlook on life & although he looks very much like Daniel DeLuca, HE'S the one that ends up making Tuesday truly happy.

The story is told from Tuesday's POV. She's open & honest in her thoughts. She's someone that is willing to share her inner thoughts with others & it's really one of the best things about her. Her transparency for life helps open up Ben to the possibility of love.

Tuesday agrees to help Ben with a business deal he's hoping to close & make his. It's decided that this is just to be a business deal but after spending time together, it becomes clear that there's a genuine attraction between the two.

🎧Let's talk narration: Erin Mallon is extremely talented. She's the perfect voice to breath life into the optimistic, carefree & newly independent character of Tuesday. Her performance was enjoyable & easy to listen to. She did a great job narrating a very sweet story.

The story is told from a single POV but in all honesty, this audio could have greatly benefited from adding a male narrator to read Ben's role, especially since he's British. Erin does a wonderful job voicing multiple female characters & even the British duchess but we needed a male narrator to voice the sultry, British billionaire.

If you like:
💂‍♂️Grumpy Billionaire
💂‍♂️Fake engagement
💂‍♂️Romcom vibes
💂‍♂️Slow burn
💂‍♂️Charming banter
💂‍♂️Swoony British MC

Thank you Louise Bay, Brilliance Audio & Netgalley for a copy of the ALC. All thoughts are my own.

PUB DATE: June 24, 2025

This is my first audio by Louise and it definitely did not disappoint!! I’m so happy I got an early listen this was so so good

This story is everything my Silver Screen loving heart enjoys. Giving off Breakfast at Tiffany vibes. All the charm of old Hollywood style and the sweet cinematic love you’d expect. Ben & Tuesday are simply charming. From his adorable teases of ‘Monday morning’ to the meddling Duke & Duchess. Tuesday really hits home with me. Her reaction to the stationery store is so me! I can’t leave it behind. 🥰 And oh my goodness, her need to make decisions based on others is the most seen I have ever felt. I can literally pinpoint who each milestone was decided on. Seeing Ben’s penchant that she make decisions based on her own needs, even if it’s not what he wants… that was truly beautiful. This is an utterly charming story that will warm your heart and have you booking a flight for your own Roman Holiday, er London Holiday. 😉

Narration was done by Erin Mallon and produced by Brilliance Audio. I greatly enjoyed this audio. It’s been a minute since I’ve listened to solo narration but Erin Mallon did a fabulous job capturing the tone of all characters. She has a way of pulling in like you’re having a conversation with a close friend.

An American in London was so great! Just what readers needed with a fake dating romance where the man with alllll the money falls for his fake fiance... Louise Bay did the dang thing with this story, and once I started, I didn't want to stop!

I also listened to the audiobook, which was narrated solely by Erin Mallon. I'll be honest, I was nervous to listen to this audio based on only one narrator... but this one was SO GOOD! Erin did an amazing job voicing both make and female parts... I highly recommend!

There’s so much to love about An American in London: multiple meet-cutes (or meet-grumps), tension and pull, character growth, funny moments and storylines….

Tuesday is a New York banker trying to keep her job when her company merges with a UK bank. She’s also reeling from her fiancé breaking the engagement to run off with a ballerina. The company sends her to London to prove herself, and the pressure is on. She doesn’t have much savings and needs to find a new Manhattan apartment when she gets back to NY.

Broody billionaire (and tall, dark and handsome) Ben is laser-focused on achieving his goals, one of which is to buy a hotel group from a reticent duke. Not only is the duke reluctant to sell and doesn’t need the money, he’d only consider a family buyer who would treat the hotel as a legacy to pass down. When Ben receives a coveted invitation to the duke and duchess’ shooting weekend for himself and a plus-one, desperate measures are in order and here comes the fake engagement!

But the real tension is there from the start! The instant grumpy-sunshine tension and sparks pulled me right in, and you could just feel the chemistry throughout the book. Watching these two completely different personalities interact, grow, get under each other’s skin, and get together. Tuesday helps Ben open up and reveal his softer, gentler side; he helps her stop living her life to please others and start going after what she wants.

The narration was fantastic too! I loved @erinmallon as a narrator—she handled all the different voices with ease and had a really nice manner that fit the main character beautifully.

Louise Bay is my audio go to! when I saw it available for request on net galley I had to see if I could review. Can't wait to dive in. Full review to come.

What a blast of laughter!

I am so in love with this particular story.

About the story:
This story is a romcom and is told from only Thursday's point of view, and if I normally prefer both POVs here, I found it very good to be in the dark about Ben. To get to know him in the same way, Thuesday does, which makes it more present and captivated me to the very last second.
I like that Thuesday is so open and transparent for us readers. I had an instantly inking toward her. She's sweet and lovely but definitely has some learnings to do. I was so keept by the story that I heard it in one listen. I couldn't stop it for only one minute. So Thursday and Ben made my day.
It's a good love story with some twists, but a lot of the light ones. This romcom has a lot of comically scenes, if by miscommunication or by lightly lying about an engagement.
The tension and chemistry are on top and right on propossions and feelings.

About the audiobook:
I've listened to the audiobook, and even if I only got Thursday's point of view, the audio was really made well with this female narrator, who changed her voice whenever another person was speaking in the book. This made the following so much easier.
The narrator matches Thursday perfectly, and I feel truly connected to her. It's easy to follow the story, even for non native English readers/listeners. And the emotions are clear and simple to understand and to feel.


The book description:
Tuesday Reynolds’s dreamy life in Manhattan has gone belly-up. Ditched by her college sweetheart and with her Wall Street banking job at risk, she’s off to London to prove herself to a new CEO. Plans change when Tuesday meets Ben Kelley, a wealthy, scowly, and movie-star-handsome stranger. He’s just missing one thing to make his professional dreams come true.

What does Ben need? Oh, just a fake fiancée to impress a duke and duchess. What’s in it for Tuesday? Enough money to put a down payment on an apartment back in New York, a new wardrobe, and a weekend in the country at the stately home of the duke and duchess. The Bridgerton vibes are absolutely off the charts.

Everything between Ben and Tuesday is completely professional, until the rehearsals for their weekend romance start to feel…almost authentic.

It’s official. Tuesday’s life has been hijacked by a rom-com scriptwriter. But the best love stories aren’t the ones on the big screen. Maybe they’re the real ones that sneak up on you when you least expect it.

Disclosure:
I received an advanced listening copy (ALC) of this book through Netgalley, which hasn't influenced my opinion.

An absolute 5 star must read alert. I'm still trying to come down from the absolute high that these characters gave me. Tuesday was a pure delight, her positive outlook on life despite some awful things happening to her was just the breath of fresh air Ben needed. She was very much the light in his darkness. Their connection, banter, chemistry, and tension was phenomenal! I truly loved this story from page one to the final chapter. It had all the feels, I laughed out loud several times at the back and forth banter. Then I cried at the heartwarming moments. If you love a sassy heroine, a sexy hero, a fake relationship romance, and a whole lot of laughs this a must read book!

Erin Mellon does an amazing job portraying Tuesday & Ben, bringing them to life and humanizing them with their emotions, attitude and personality. She does more than giving their characters their voices, she falls into the roles and becomes the characters.

What do you get when a heartbroken New Yorker collides with a grumpy British billionaire in need of a fake fiancée? Only the rom-com plot of our dreams. 💍✨

Read if you like:
Fake dating, grumpy/sunshine, billionaire romance, Bridgerton vibes, emotional healing, slow-burn steam, and feel-good fluff with depth.

📚 An American in London by Louise Bay is a swoony romantic comedy with the perfect blend of wit, heart, and a little chaos. Tuesday Reynolds is in full life-crisis mode — freshly dumped, grieving her mom, and trying to hold on to her banking job. Her big shot at redemption? Impressing a London CEO. But then fate (and one very hot stranger) detours her plans.

👨‍👧 Tuesday is a people-pleasing, soft-hearted New Yorker just trying to stay afloat. Ben Kelley? A brooding, sharp-tongued Brit who’s all business — until he isn’t. Their chemistry is instant, but their connection runs deeper than either of them expect.

💞 The fake fiancée setup gives us all the delicious tension. From flirty rehearsal kisses to real feelings sneaking in under the radar, this romance unfolds with heart, humor, and just the right dash of spice. You’ll root for them from the start.

👧 The side characters are charming and layered — from posh aristocrats to loyal friends. Every interaction adds warmth and texture, making the world feel lived-in and irresistibly British.

✍️ Louise Bay’s writing is effortlessly engaging — balancing emotional depth and playful banter with ease. The pacing is spot-on, and the setting (hello, country estates and London views!) brings total escapist joy.

🌟 If your heart needs a hug, this book delivers. Sweet, funny, and genuinely touching, it’s a reminder that love stories don’t always follow a script — sometimes, the real ones are even better.

Cute Millionaire Romance

Louise Bay's short and sweet romance novel An American in London centres around Tuesday, a recently single bank employee sent to London on an evaluation trip that could skyrocket or end her career. When Tuesday arrives to her hotel only to find that a fan convention for her teenage crush, Daniel De Luca, is taking place right there, she thinks things could not be better. If only she can keep her job, meet the man himself and maybe help his look-a-like Ben impress a Duke by pretending to be Ben's fiancée for the weekend..

I listened to the audiobook narrated by Erin Mallon, which clocks in at about 7.5 hours. Erin Mallon's narration was largely excellent, though her British accent occasionally veered off towards Australian. She also draws out last words in chapters which sounds very odd and pulls you out of the immersion while listening.
It is very entertaining, since Tuesday is a very perky and lively protagonist. Her American optimism and naivety sometimes are a bit much but I think this story really lends itself to the audiobook format. Easy listening and good dialogue! I enjoyed Ben's subtle humour, though his (somewhat cliché) tall, dark, moody persona initially did not click, he absolutely made up for that by the halfway mark.
Louise Bay manages to make the lines between Tuesday and Ben's game of pretense slowly blur with reality and while there were absolutely moments that made one scream at them to just talk it out, it never felt contrived. There is plenty of physical attraction between them and some spice, but mostly a lot of beautiful locations, movie references and charm.
Of course, there is a makeover scene and all the trappings of an aristocratic weekend home in the countryside.

While I struggled to buy how much Tuesday goes with the flow (let alone how any parent would name their child that), even the overly large number of film references might end up making sense towards the end of the book. Among hunting for filming locations and a surprising link between Ben and her work at the bank, Tuesday has a few busy weeks in the UK. The big question is whether Tuesday will also get her romance-movie happy ending?

After a case of mistaken identity, Tuesday and Ben cross paths in a local coffee shop. Later, after other chance meetings, Tuesday is introduced to Ben's friend and so their relationship begins its journey.

However, these chance meetings turn into a fake relationship as a means to an end for Ben's most highly sought after business deal.

Tuesday's sunshiny personality is the opposite of Ben's surlyness and is the object is some humorous interactions between the couple as they navigate towards a positive conclusion.

However, we all know how fake relationship tropes go and An American In London is no different.

The path however is a little different. The characters with their attributes and flaws, as well as the scenes artfully created by the author, makes it a refreshing and humorous read.

Erin Mallon's narration brings the words of Louise Bay to life expertly and makes the listening experience top notch.

ALC Review
An American in London by Louise Bay
Narrated by: Erin Mallon

Tuseday Reynolds has recently has her life turned upside down due to a cheating fiancée and has been sent to London for a work assignment. Coincidentally, she ends up at a hotel hosting a convention for her childhood crush. Ben Kelley is a grumpy billionaire that does not do the whole dating thing. He ends up in a situation where he needs to bring a date (ideally a fiancée).
There was so much chemistry between the two but they were so insistent on fighting it. I love when the grumpy billionaire does sweet things just for the woman he is falling for.

Erin was spectacular at being the sometime silly and newly independent Tuesday.

Pick this one up if you enjoy:
* Vacation romance
* Grumpy billionaire
* Fake engagement
* Rom com vibes
* Multiple meet cutes
* Slow burn

Loved it. That is all I can say. I went in with no expectations for this book, and I loved it.
This was my first book by Louise Bay, and I thoroughly enjoyed her writing.
Tuesday & Ben are one of my favorite book couples this year.
First of all, I love the name Tuesday. Her character was so well developed, she was incredibly relatable, and she is written in such a way that you FEEL what she does.
Ben - I love a book with a grumpy man who has been hurt in the past, and under all the grump, he is a teddy bear and loving man.
I got fairy tale vibes from this book. I felt like it was a Disney princess vibe as well, and sometimes, we just need a beautifully executed adult fairy tale.
Tropes: billionaire romance, fairy tale vibes, grumpy-sunshine, somewhat workplace romance, and fake relationship (just to name a few).
If you also listen to the audiobook, it is done so well that you feel like you are being read a fairy tale.
I got all the feel-good romance ingredients that I love.
This should be a romcom - I will be first in line for the movie.
Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and Louise Bay for the opportunity to read this ARC!
Add this immediately to your summer TBR!!
Happy Reading!