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A review by ma_kale_a
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross
informative
medium-paced
3.5
The material was well researched and palatably presented without feeling too dense. The author seamlessly weaves a narrative that blends scientific and cultural understanding (or, in this case, misunderstanding) of the female reproductive system in a way that is accessible—but not patronizing— to the reader.
I felt that the author spent too many paragraphs waxing poetic about small, irrelevant details: what an interviewee was wearing, the architecture of the building, what meal someone ordered from room service after surgery, etc. It often read like a high school essay trying desperately to reach a minimum word count.
The audiobook narrator was so awful that it was distracting. She is Australian, but is narrating in a North American accent and casually slips in and out of her native Australian accent, making me have to rewind and re-listen in order to understand every word. She mispronounced common words and noticeably struggled through names, and she put on an affected dramatized accent when narrating quotations, changing accents depending on the quoted person’s nationality.
I felt that the author spent too many paragraphs waxing poetic about small, irrelevant details: what an interviewee was wearing, the architecture of the building, what meal someone ordered from room service after surgery, etc. It often read like a high school essay trying desperately to reach a minimum word count.
The audiobook narrator was so awful that it was distracting. She is Australian, but is narrating in a North American accent and casually slips in and out of her native Australian accent, making me have to rewind and re-listen in order to understand every word. She mispronounced common words and noticeably struggled through names, and she put on an affected dramatized accent when narrating quotations, changing accents depending on the quoted person’s nationality.