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A review by treehuggeranonymous
The Illusion of Separateness by Simon Van Booy

3.0

I probably would have enjoyed this book more if my audiobook wasn't read by one of the worst narrators I've ever come across. The publishers for some reason decided that a book set in the US, France, and UK should have an Australian narrator, but not one with like a normal Aussie accent or a nice Jesse Spencer-esque but a full blown 'Kath & Kim'. It makes it hard to, you know, suspend belief and get absorbed in a book. But aside from the horrendous accent, she just read so poorly - giving no inflection, pausing mid/sentence, and reteading a sentence due to errors (why was that not edited out?).
I really liked the first chapter and thought I would enjoy the rest, but that voice became so grating that it kinda ended up spoiling the book for me.