Unabridged Audiobook
Cute rom -com story, but narrator was obviously mass media trained with a staccato, news anchor delivery of the dialogue. Took away from the story :(
Not for me. Not the narrator (who couldn’t keep up the different voices to the point I wished she’d stop trying; and who made the men sound comical); not the overextended ending they made the whole thing drag on what felt like so many extra chapters, well past a more natural ending somewhere around Chapter 19; not the idiotic character development of the foster brother, the male love interest and his mental density, the protag and her lack of any real motivation. I especially disliked how mental health and the foster care system challenges were weakly and continually used as plot points. We didn’t get the protag’s full context until the end but we got the make love interest’s story early — and they weren’t in any real way equally matched. Cutesy stuff, like referring to the protag as a “pixie” constantly was also distracting. The protagonist is a person who just drifts around, buffeted by the world, but this was never developed as character growth. She was strong, great, but she actually wasn’t. She was independent. Terrific! Except she didn’t demonstrate that. She was low-key taken advantage of and victimized by everyone until this big family and group of friends shows up to save her. Yeah, no. Not for me.
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