Beautiful Bastard
Beautiful Bastard • Book 1
Narrated by Astrid Johannesen, Christian Engell
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
Two narrators, one office, zero self-control — this is workplace tension as a competitive sport.
- Great if you want: steamy enemies-to-lovers romance with sharp dialogue
- Listening experience: fast, charged, and relentlessly flirtatious throughout
- Narration: dual POV format amplifies the push-pull dynamic perfectly
- Skip if: office power dynamics in romance make you uncomfortable
About This Audiobook
Beautiful Bastard follows Chloe Mills, an MBA intern who has been efficiently managing the work of her perfectionist boss Bennett Ryan, and the collision of mutual attraction with professional resentment that neither of them handles with any particular grace. Christina Lauren's novel began as popular fan fiction and the office-enemies-to-lovers framework is self-aware about its own formula, which gives it a knowing energy that less confident romance lacks.
Astrid Johannesen and Christian Engell share the narration in a dual-narrator format that suits the alternating-perspective structure. Their chemistry in the antagonistic early chapters, which the format requires to feel genuine before transitioning to something more, comes through with enough bite to make the eventual warmth credible. The novel's compact length keeps the pacing brisk.
