Assist by LA Witt
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2/5. M/M/M hockey romance (this is a definite thing in the genre now, which is an excellent example to hold up to anyone who thinks fanfiction follows pro romance trends rather than the other way around). I picked this out of the heap because it's poly, but meh. I set this book down yesterday to hang with the toddler, and when I came back to it an hour later I couldn't remember whose POV I was reading, and then couldn't tell for several pages. Which, youch. These are interchangeable bros whose only distinguishing features are their issues, which, like. Write about being scarred by a childhood punctuated by repeated acrimonious divorce if you want, write about being closeted if you must, but maybe, just maybe, write in such a way that you don't mistake giving characters issues for giving them personalities.
Okay okay, now that I've said what's actually wrong with this book, I can admit I got off on a very bad foot with it for the entirely petty reason that the narrator grievously, cringingly, face-palmingly cannot pronounce empanadas. This is the audiobook equivalent of hating the cover.
2/5. M/M/M hockey romance (this is a definite thing in the genre now, which is an excellent example to hold up to anyone who thinks fanfiction follows pro romance trends rather than the other way around). I picked this out of the heap because it's poly, but meh. I set this book down yesterday to hang with the toddler, and when I came back to it an hour later I couldn't remember whose POV I was reading, and then couldn't tell for several pages. Which, youch. These are interchangeable bros whose only distinguishing features are their issues, which, like. Write about being scarred by a childhood punctuated by repeated acrimonious divorce if you want, write about being closeted if you must, but maybe, just maybe, write in such a way that you don't mistake giving characters issues for giving them personalities.
Okay okay, now that I've said what's actually wrong with this book, I can admit I got off on a very bad foot with it for the entirely petty reason that the narrator grievously, cringingly, face-palmingly cannot pronounce empanadas. This is the audiobook equivalent of hating the cover.
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Date: 2021-04-05 08:25 pm (UTC)As a former book designer and audio reader, may I suggest it's not the cover as much as the font design, and that stuff matters!
I may never finish Jill Lepore narrating her own These Truths when, digging deep into Progressivism, she pronounces "LaFollette" to rhyme with awful wet.