citrus_seasalt 's review for:

Outdrawn by Deanna Grey

DID NOT FINISH: 31%

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DNF’ed at 31%. I really wanted to enjoy the banter and the tropiness (although, yeah, some parts can be immature): the author clearly cares a lot about art and writing characters who love to make it, there were some very fun discussions around the creative process and representation because of that. Unfortunately, the narration was so fucking awful that it completely ruined my enjoyment of it. Why does Noah sound like that in Sage’s POV? It legitimately sounds like the narrator saw her name, thought it belonged to a guy, and kept going with the same very forced voice. (But I don’t like how Sage sounded in Noah’s POV either, even if it wasn’t as memorably bad.) The line delivery uncannily lingered between being cartoony and robotic, it was obvious it was meant to be engaging but it had the opposite effect for me. I don’t remember the names of the narrators, and I won’t look them up because I’m not going to directly target them— that would be shitty— but they know who they are, I guess. 

I plan on eventually reading this without the audio, at some point. I think I’ll enjoy the text much better.