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A review by jenbsbooks
The Fine Print by Lauren Asher
2.25
This is for a definite audience ... those who like romance/sex. There really wasn't much story on top of that. I had to double check that this was indeed the first in the series (I won't be continuing), because it just seemed to drop the reader into the situation with little/no explanation. I felt like I should have known a little more about the family (the other brothers, one has to find a wife?), that I was missing something.
The text is included in KindleUnlimited, I was able to get the audio from the library. While I read some reviews swooning over the male narrator ... he was a little too gravely, he didn't quite sound real, and I had a hard time concentrating on what he was saying. The female narrator was good. Uber explicit stuff. Just imagining the narrators reading aloud ...
There was a character with Downs Syndrome, the female MC's little sister. If we hadn't been told she had Downs Syndrome, it would have been really hard to tell, both from the way it was written, and voiced. I realize there are many levels, low to high functioning, but Ani sounds completely "normal". There are certain voice patterns distinctive to Downs ... I don't know if it's considered politically incorrect to view this as an "accent" but it was just felt like it was missing the mark when it was read as it was (standard). I remember [book:Behind Closed Doors|29437949] had a character with Downs and the voicing was tastefully representative of that.
The whole book just felt silly. The "billionaire" boy and the regular girl who catches his eye ... it's been done so many times before. The "Dreamland" was hard to take seriously, the relationship/romance ... ehhh. Nothing explicit until a little over halfway ... but I've stayed away from "romance" because explicit scenes do make me uncomfortable. Too much of a prude. I felt like I blinked in the last quarter when SPOILERS ... Rowan suddenly decides to drop Zahra (um, what? why?) and then just as quickly decides he wants her back.
An interesting input on the "are audiobooks reading?" debate ... both MCs enjoy books, and playing the this or that question game "Would you rather never read a book again or never be able to check the stock market?" He chooses the latter then says "You said I could never READ a book again. Audiobooks don't count. Semantics matter."
I was anxious for this to end - I was done.
The text is included in KindleUnlimited, I was able to get the audio from the library. While I read some reviews swooning over the male narrator ... he was a little too gravely, he didn't quite sound real, and I had a hard time concentrating on what he was saying. The female narrator was good. Uber explicit stuff. Just imagining the narrators reading aloud ...
There was a character with Downs Syndrome, the female MC's little sister. If we hadn't been told she had Downs Syndrome, it would have been really hard to tell, both from the way it was written, and voiced. I realize there are many levels, low to high functioning, but Ani sounds completely "normal". There are certain voice patterns distinctive to Downs ... I don't know if it's considered politically incorrect to view this as an "accent" but it was just felt like it was missing the mark when it was read as it was (standard). I remember [book:Behind Closed Doors|29437949] had a character with Downs and the voicing was tastefully representative of that.
The whole book just felt silly. The "billionaire" boy and the regular girl who catches his eye ... it's been done so many times before. The "Dreamland" was hard to take seriously, the relationship/romance ... ehhh. Nothing explicit until a little over halfway ... but I've stayed away from "romance" because explicit scenes do make me uncomfortable. Too much of a prude. I felt like I blinked in the last quarter when SPOILERS ... Rowan suddenly decides to drop Zahra (um, what? why?) and then just as quickly decides he wants her back.
An interesting input on the "are audiobooks reading?" debate ... both MCs enjoy books, and playing the this or that question game "Would you rather never read a book again or never be able to check the stock market?" He chooses the latter then says "You said I could never READ a book again. Audiobooks don't count. Semantics matter."
I was anxious for this to end - I was done.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content