Picked this up as something easy and fun to breeze through and it delivered what I wanted!

As an enemies to lovers plot it was fine. I don't know shit about F1 which might be a pro in this case. 

The writing is easy to read through (not necessarily good mind you, but easy to get through for sure) but it is repetitive. Facts or details are mentioned like they're new, and the exposition is Strong at times. 

It's not something to write home about, but again, it delivered what I wanted out of it

Thank you to NetGalley, Harper Adult Audio/One More Chapter, and Harper 30 for providing  me with an egalley an audio arc of this book to read and give my honest review. The opinions expressed here are my own.
I've been looking for a good F1 book. I'm a huge fan and follow pretty closely so I know a lot about the sport, the teams, some of the technology and engineering, even. This is not my first F1 book and so far they have all let me down in one way or another. I picked this one as it made sense to me to read a book in a male dominant field with the main characters as two males. Sadly, this book did not live up to my expectations, either.
Let's start with the audio part of the book. I'm unsurprised the narrators use British voices but I will say Joshua Chase and James Joseph were similar enough that it was sometimes hard to tell them apart. This was annoying if I missed the title of the chapter saying who it was. I could usually pick it out once it got going as the narrators did make the voices of the characters unique enough with tone and inflection, plus the author definitely showed each personality of the characters. The narrator that did Harper's voice had a very low quality of his voice. Almost a whisper at times and I found myself having to rewind to hear what he said.
If the narrators not being to my liking wasn't enough, the entire story and plot line just fell short. I feel like the author needed to do a lot more research into F1. You can see some if it there, while at other times it's severely lacking. It's not believable that two F1 drivers would share a trailer for weeks on end while touring. It's not believable that a reserve driver is brought up and has zero understanding about how to talk to the media; he's getting his first trainings now? Seems highly unlikely. Finally, F1 is an expensive sport. You don't really see poor, orphaned kids who have zero support racing. Where is the money coming from? it just makes zero sense.
As I said above, the author did a good job making the two characters distinct. Kian as the stuck up, regimented driver who doesn't want to deviate from his schedule or be friends and Harper who is carefree and not caring who thinks what of him. He does as he pleases and has no inkling of how his actions hurt or injure others. This was truly the only part of the story that might be believable.
Did I feel the chemistry between these two? Not at all. Was their relationship (love/hate, I guess?) believable? Not really because the attraction they talk about (what the author tells us, rather than shows us) just didn't feel like it was really there. And, since this was the entire premise of the book, the growth of the characters felt stunted and overall underdeveloped. I felt zero connection or empathy for either of these characters. Even when the author gave us a bone and look into the background of the characters, which I would hope would help me connect, I just didn't care enough to feel badly for them in any way.
And the pacing was so slow! I just kept waiting for something to happen by even by 60%, when the characters have finally gotten together in some capacity, it was still just stunted. It dragged and I had to push and push and push to even care to finish it. Once I got annoyed enough with the narrators, I switched to Kindle version. But it did nothing to improve the story.
Overall, I'm completely underwhelmed with this title. There is a lot wrong and I feel like it needs another round of edits to point out where pacing could be picked up, characters could be developed, and story line could use some tweaks.

such a guilty pleasure read, i'm so sorry. who am i if not a rivals to lovers stan?

This book at me blushing, tearing up, and genuinely frustrated with these two bozos. Both characters are uniquely flawed and perfect. I may be a romance novel kind of guy afterall:) 

wheezing screaming throwing up

So...uhm... this was okay I guess. The plot is not that great but doesn't so bad either. Only it's a bit bored when get to above chapter 20, but I guess it stills fine. The spicy scenes are okay too. Their chemistry is not that lacking especially after the particular scene when they finally open up to each other. But, I expect more of some tension between them, since these two had a teammates-with-benefits term.

Despite it all, it was a pretty enjoyable book to read. There were definitely issues and flaws in this book, so I was unsure whether to give it a 2.75- or 3-star rating, but because it was still pleasant to read, I suppose a 3 is acceptable^^ 

This is a cute MM romance set with the backdrop of F1 racing with teammates/rivals-to-lovers. The character development both Kian, the reserved veteran, and Harper, the swaggering rookie, go through is wonderful. The audio is incredibly well done and both voice actors do a great job emboding their characters.

You don't need to know F1 racing to understand that aspect of the story. The author does a fine job giving you enough information to understand the implications of the sport. The story contains a great mix of sport and romance.

Thank you Netgalley and Harper Adult Audio for the advance audiobook copy in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.