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Homebodies
by Tembe Denton-Hurst
The good elements of this are SO good--I mean both in the audiobook performance and in the writing. This gave me lots of feels, some uncomfortable and some delicious, and the pain of being in that weird place with former situationships and weird career stuff was soooo well rendered.
It's just that the editing process so obviously didn't happen (there are just so many sloppy things, like pronouns with unclear antecedents and awkward, constant shifting between omniscient third and limited third) and also this is at least the third Harper audiobook I've listened to in as many months with serious problems so I think I can conclude now that it is just HarperCollins policy to literally not QC audiobooks at all. Like I was willing to go with regional (Maryland) accent and AAVE for some stuff that bothered me personally but that I could recognize my own snobbery and linguistic purism in, and I know some things are just dead and never going to be fixed, like pronouncing mischievous with four syllables instead of the correct three, but "kertharsis" and "poTpurry" is just not knowing how words work, and a producer should have caught those types of errors (and there were many) for pickups. Apparently Harper Audio has just completely abdicated that part of the work. Sucks for listeners and it's disrespectful to authors.
It's just that the editing process so obviously didn't happen (there are just so many sloppy things, like pronouns with unclear antecedents and awkward, constant shifting between omniscient third and limited third) and also this is at least the third Harper audiobook I've listened to in as many months with serious problems so I think I can conclude now that it is just HarperCollins policy to literally not QC audiobooks at all. Like I was willing to go with regional (Maryland) accent and AAVE for some stuff that bothered me personally but that I could recognize my own snobbery and linguistic purism in, and I know some things are just dead and never going to be fixed, like pronouncing mischievous with four syllables instead of the correct three, but "kertharsis" and "poTpurry" is just not knowing how words work, and a producer should have caught those types of errors (and there were many) for pickups. Apparently Harper Audio has just completely abdicated that part of the work. Sucks for listeners and it's disrespectful to authors.