Sage Collins

Engaging non-fiction, told well

Revisado: 09-26-24

I’ve never read a true crime book before and am not one for non-fiction. This has been recommended to me & I decided to preview it. I was immediately struck by how engaging it was, and how the narrator reminded me of a fairytale being read. It was the perfect voice for this story & I was hooked every time I started listening.

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Incredibly different quality between the narrators

Revisado: 07-09-24

This book has two narrators, one who should teach classes on how to do audiobook narration and one who honestly had to check wasn’t AI because his reading was so robotic. The preview features Vico, who is wonderful, but fails to give us MW. Vico also gives us difference in voices between characters, including accents to match their nationalities (or fantasy representations of them), but since they give one of those to the second POV character, & MW doesn’t bother with it, it’s jarring to go back and forth and go, oh, yeah, that’s supposed to be Cade. Would’ve been better to have Vico do both POVs.

While I like that both characters had disabilities and were transmasculine, for like half the book they just kind of felt the same. Like they approached those elements in the exact same way, plus they were both convinced the other was the bad guy, so they were also approaching that conflict with the same feelings about it.

Towards the end, some elements seemed to come out of nowhere (though I admit that Cade’s chapters were so poorly narrated that I had trouble following them). I also found some points where we seemed to go back in time between the two POVS but not to catch up to the other. It made it even harder to follow.

I’m very sorry because Vico was my favorite narrator of an audiobook last year, and Anna-Marie McLemore was one of the authors of my favorite new read last year, so I was overjoyed to find them paired for this book. It was quite disappointing.

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Couldn’t get into the narrators or story, sadly

Revisado: 02-07-24

Probably going to DNF this. I would probably push through if it wasn’t an audiobook, but the story is just too slowly paced & too long to continue reading this slowly. 30% in, and Inez is still trying to not be sent home by her uncle & is thinking the same thoughts about Whit that she’s been thinking since the (25-minute-long) prologue ended. She also seems incredibly naive, while the book tries to suggest she is clever & crafty.

The audiobook narrator for Inez spoke like she was afraid of getting kicked out of a library. I literally couldn’t listen while in the car because I couldn’t hear her over the sound of the road. Then the rare times we heard Whit, his voice was loud and forceful, and it was jarring.

I was going to listen during work today & realized I had no desire to keep going.

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