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Outdrawn

Deanna Grey

4.08 AVERAGE

uchireads's profile picture

uchireads's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 28%

I cannot stand the narrators oh my God. I don’t know why they sound like that, it reminds me of when people mimic anime characters. They’re affecting their voice so much and it takes me out of the story completely. I can’t imagine having to listen to them during any future romantic scenes. I’m going to try again one day with the physical book 😭😭😭
emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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citrus_seasalt's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 31%

DNF’ed at 31%. I really wanted to enjoy the banter and the tropiness (although, yeah, some parts can be immature): the author clearly cares a lot about art and writing characters who love to make it, there were some very fun discussions around the creative process and representation because of that. Unfortunately, the narration was so fucking awful that it completely ruined my enjoyment of it. Why does Noah sound like that in Sage’s POV? It legitimately sounds like the narrator saw her name, thought it belonged to a guy, and kept going with the same very forced voice. (But I don’t like how Sage sounded in Noah’s POV either, even if it wasn’t as memorably bad.) The line delivery uncannily lingered between being cartoony and robotic, it was obvious it was meant to be engaging but it had the opposite effect for me. I don’t remember the names of the narrators, and I won’t look them up because I’m not going to directly target them— that would be shitty— but they know who they are, I guess. 

I plan on eventually reading this without the audio, at some point. I think I’ll enjoy the text much better. 
lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

4.5
emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes