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A review by hollish
The Only Ones by Carola Dibbell
5.0
Probably 4 stars for the story, but Sasha Dunbrooke's narration brought it up to a 5.
Carola Dibbell's dystopian world-building is exquisite. Often when I read dystopia, I'm not quite clear how we ended up with this world. Or, it seems unbelievable. The post-pandemic near-future world we find Inez in was rather believe to me. This is a story of motherhood and survival and it's lovely and heartbreaking.
Looking through some of the other reviews, I'm extra glad I went with the audiobook. Sasha Dunbrooke gave Inez a unique, nuanced voice that was better than anything I could have provided in my own head - and issues like "should of/should have" don't really matter when it's in audio. They sound right in Inez's voice.
Carola Dibbell's dystopian world-building is exquisite. Often when I read dystopia, I'm not quite clear how we ended up with this world. Or, it seems unbelievable. The post-pandemic near-future world we find Inez in was rather believe to me. This is a story of motherhood and survival and it's lovely and heartbreaking.
Looking through some of the other reviews, I'm extra glad I went with the audiobook. Sasha Dunbrooke gave Inez a unique, nuanced voice that was better than anything I could have provided in my own head - and issues like "should of/should have" don't really matter when it's in audio. They sound right in Inez's voice.