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    No Offense: A Novel
    No Offense: A Novel
    No Offense: A Novel
    Audiobook8 hours

    No Offense: A Novel

    Written by Meg Cabot

    Narrated by Piper Goodeve

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    New York Times-bestselling author Meg Cabot's returns with a charming romance between a children's librarian and the town sheriff in the second book in the Little Bridge Island series.

    Welcome to Little Bridge, one of the smallest, most beautiful islands in the Florida Keys, home to sandy white beaches, salt-rimmed margaritas, and stunning sunsets—a place where nothing goes under the radar and love has a way of sneaking up when least expected... 

    A broken engagement only gave Molly Montgomery additional incentive to follow her dream job from the Colorado Rockies to the Florida Keys. Now, as Little Bridge Island Public Library’s head of children’s services, Molly hopes the messiest thing in her life will be her sticky-note covered desk. But fate—in the form of a newborn left in the restroom—has other ideas. So does the sheriff who comes to investigate the “abandonment”.  When John Hartwell folds all six-feet-three of himself into a tiny chair and insists that whoever left the baby is a criminal, Molly begs to differ and asks what he’s doing about the Island’s real crime wave (if thefts of items from homes that have been left unlocked could be called that). Not the best of starts, but the man’s arrogance is almost as distracting as his blue eyes. Almost… 

    John would be pretty irritated if one of his deputies had a desk as disorderly as Molly’s. Good thing she doesn’t work for him, considering how attracted he is to her. Molly’s lilting librarian voice makes even the saltiest remarks go down sweeter, which is bad as long as she’s a witness but might be good once the case is solved—provided he hasn’t gotten on her last nerve by then. Recently divorced, John has been having trouble adjusting to single life as well as single parenthood. But something in Molly’s beautiful smile gives John hope that his old life on Little Bridge might suddenly hold new promise—if only they can get over their differences. 

    Clever, hilarious, and fun, No Offense will tug at listener heartstrings and make them fall in love with Little Bridge Island and its unique characters once again.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateAug 11, 2020
    ISBN9780062890085
    No Offense: A Novel
    Author

    Meg Cabot

    Meg Cabot’s many books for both adults and teens have included numerous #1 New York Times bestsellers, with more than twenty-five million copies sold worldwide. Her Princess Diaries series was made into two hit films by Disney, with a third movie coming soon. Meg currently lives in Key West, Florida, with her husband and various cats.

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    Reviews for No Offense

    3.5/5

    152 ratings13 reviews

    What our readers think

    Readers find this title to be a cute and light easy read. They enjoy the interplay between the librarian and the sheriff, as well as the mystery of Oscar. Some reviewers felt that parts of the book were over explained and that it had a YA feel to it. Overall, it is considered an adorable read and would be good for a flight or road trip.

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    • 4/5

      Sep 9, 2023

      Weird amount of nipple talk. Too much cop appreciation for my liking also. Cute tho, + Meg Cabot is an icon, + I loved Elijah’s character. 4 stars for being very easy listening, and I was never so off put by the over explaining or corniness that it made me want to turn it off. I think it would be good for a flight or road trip.
    • 3/5

      Sep 9, 2023

      A cute, light easy read. No Offense is like a Lifetime/Hallmark channel movie in book form. Parts of it felt a little over explained. Overall it was an adorable read, I didn't hate it but I didn't love it as an adult contemporary romance. It has a YA feel to it even though the main characters were both over 30.
    • 2/5

      Sep 9, 2023

      I was so confused when I got to the ending. I thought the story was at the half way point, at most, but suddenly the bad guys were where bad guys belong and the sheriff was on one knee in front of the librarian.

      I had actually enjoyed the story and the writing a A LOT, but I had to literally double-check to make sure the player hadn't somehow skipped through the other half of the book without me noticing.
    • 4/5

      Sep 9, 2023

      No Offense
      Little Bridge Island, Book 2

      I Picked Up This Book Because: Continue the series.

      The Characters:

      Molly Montgomery:
      John Hartwell:
      Katie Hartwell (John’s daughter),

      The Story:

      The librarian and the sheriff. I’m here for it. Molly is the new children’s librarian. When a baby turns up in a box at her library she meets new Sheriff John Hartwell. John is not new to the island, just new to the "sheriffdom". John is a single dad not looking for love but something about Molly had him changing his mind. I enjoyed the mystery of “Oscar” and the interplay between John and Molly. Katie is the cherry on this amusing sundae.

      The Random Thoughts:


      4 Stars
    • 2/5

      Oct 4, 2021

      This one started off strong, but gradually just lost my interest. I ended up just skimming to the end.
    • 4/5

      Sep 3, 2021

      Molly the librarian, meet John the sheriff. What I liked most about this novel was the fact that the main characters weren't young adults. There's an abandoned baby to throw them together and chemistry to keep them together.
    • 3/5

      Mar 8, 2021

      I knew the story was going to have a good level of cheese. Although, that's why I bought it in the first place. a rom com to read in the tub. for that reasoning, it wasn't bad. pretty predictable ending. And that's ok. I have lots of other Meg Cabot titles in my personal library. (love Princess Diaries)
    • 4/5

      Dec 14, 2020

      Pleasant book. I enjoyed it and finished it but very ethereal -- light and fun but that's it. I would read another book by this author if I were filling time. Not a bad book but it didn't stay with me. I had to check the description on Amazon to remember the bool even though I read it less than a week ago. BUT it was pleasant and I enjoyed it while I read it.
    • 2/5

      Dec 2, 2020

      Pandemic read. There was a lot to like in this tale of a bookshop and its atypical family, set in San Francisco.
    • 3/5

      Feb 25, 2022

      This is a cute story about a children's librarian Molly and the local sheriff John meeting when Molly finds an abandoned baby in the library restroom. They work to find the parents as well as solve a string of local break-ins. And of course, find romance.
      It's a sweet idea, nothing groundbreaking, but a quick and fun read.
    • 3/5

      Aug 28, 2020

      A romance featuring a librarian! A fairly realistic children's librarian, no less; no shushing spinsters or fishnet-wearing sirens here. This might be hard to read for other librarians out there; some parts are horribly realistic, others had me seriously doubting Molly's judgment. (The same could be said for some of John's decisions, too.) For the majority of readers who aren't librarians, though, I hope that Molly gets people thinking differently about the field. I'm grateful to Cabot for getting that part (mostly) right.

      The story itself was a typical, straightforward romance: fluffy and silly, with a few unrealistic situations leading to the requisite HEA. I always worry a bit when a romance plot gets too serious, in this case abandoning a baby, leaving a girl to die after she gives birth, reuniting estranged family, etc. because it's always in the interest of advancing the main romance and always gets resolved too neatly. I don't read romances for their realistic portrayals of humanity, of course, but I found myself worrying so much about the 18-year-old with a newborn, a boyfriend in prison, and horrible parents thrust back into her life without her consent and I was actually pretty mad at the main characters for how they handled the whole situation. Still, Little Bridge Island is a charming town and I genuinely enjoyed the side characters who call it home. My library doesn't actually have this series, but I'll visit again if we do decide to pick it up.

      I received a copy of this title from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
    • 4/5

      Aug 23, 2021

      Children's librarian Molly Montgomery is a relatively new arrival to Little Bridge Island, Florida but she's loving the small town life and the escape from her ex-fiance back in Colarado who is already engaged to someone else. However, when she finds a baby abandoned in the public washroom at her library, it turns her work and personal life upside down. Divorced and single parent to a teen daughter, Sheriff John Hartwell already has plenty on his work plate when the abandoned baby is reported. What he needs even less is Molly's opinions on how to solve the case. Although she is awfully good-looking when she is sharing those opinions.

      A cute contemporary romance that was everything I expect from Meg Cabot. Happily the library work descriptions are pretty accurate, which always makes this librarian happy. Molly and John are both delightful characters and it's nice to have romance novel leads who are over 35. If you like Cabot or funny contemporary romances at the mild end of the steam spectrum, give this one a try.
    • 4/5

      Jul 10, 2020

      3.5 Stars rounded up.

      This can be read alone, there is no reason to read the first book -I didn't.

      I liked the story/mystery and disliked the romance. Go figure! Yes, the mystery was a good one IMO but I found the main character's to be somewhat lacking. the secondary characters were great but very typical to this genre. ex - Gay friend, old rich lady, old eccentric lady, shady youth, and rich teens/YA's, angsty daughter, single father with daughter. Nothing much new here really.

      Molly was a bit of a bitch and overly PC, and I found Sheriff John to be spineless and overly PC. I guess as far as being politically correct, they are made for each other! In the first chapter Molly, the children's librarian is so PC that when having the kids decorate Gingerbread cookies, the cookies could not be female - you know the ones with a skirt, so as to not offend anyone. *headdesk,headdesk, eye-roll*

      If you like uber PC books about librarians, then you will probably love this book. But I might think of getting it from the library.

      I was so looking forward to this book, but it just felt like a YA with characters called adults.

      *ARC supplied by the publisher and author.