A review by pinesandpages
Never a Hero by Marie Sexton

Did not finish book. Stopped at 21%.

I started listening to this on a run and so listened to about an hour, the whole time wondering “Does this author have a disability or is this her imaging what someone with a congenital birth defect would feel?” Since I couldn’t Google it I kept listening for the full hour of my run but became more and more convinced this is not an Own Voices story. After some brief googling I couldn’t find anything about Marie’s experience but also this was written in 2013 (as I learned while googling) and I don’t think Own Voices was a term at that time so I can’t be sure but the vibes were off. I read a lot of reviews that also mentioned that HIV isn’t AIDS and a gay man in 2013 wouldn’t use these interchangeably.  So all that to say, that’s why I DNFed.