Thank you, NetGalley, for the opportunity to listen to this Advanced Listener Copy (ALC) in exchange for my honest review. The narrators were Stacy Gonzales and Logan Anare
Whenever I see the word bookish in a title, I’m hooked, so when I got approved for the audiobook, my biggest issue was that it has two narrators, but I felt they were reading, not narrating. It might sound similar, but it’s not the same: reading two characters in the same tone, even if read by different people, made the text feel like one thing without breaks. The other reason might be that the chapters are quite long.
As for the story, Luci and her mother’s behaviour reminded me how often culture and societal norms clash and push people one way or the other. Ryan Brady’s character was pretty annoying at first, but I think he was meant to come across that way, since later we get a different understanding of why things are happening this way.
I enjoyed the discussion there is regarding whether, if I brought or was given something, do I also own the creative side of it. I think the answer is mixed, depending on who it is coming from. As an author myself, it made me feel that, as a ghostwriter, Luci’s name became known because of somebody else. Overall, my rating is 3.5/5.