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thechaoticmaker 's review for:
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
by Abbi Waxman
DID NOT FINISH: 30%
I wanted to like this - I'm a book-loving introvert with anxiety, who enjoys reading romance, so this should be right up my alley. I couldn't even get close to the romance, because the accents and weirdness about a gay character got in the way.
The audiobook has terrible accents/voices (an Australian accent that sounds more like a poorly done English accent, and a gay man's voice that sounds more like a Golden Girl), and the writing is really weird about a main character who is a gay man. The main character is very "omg I'm so glad I have a gay relative, I've always loved gay men", and her friend even says she "borrowed a neighbour's gay cousin to go shopping". I get that some people still talk that way about gay men, but I find it hard to believe someone in their 20s/30s in LA would reduce a gay man to an accessory like that, and I certainly don't want to read it. I couldn't get past the audiobook voices and the tokenism of a gay bff, so won't be finishing it.
The audiobook has terrible accents/voices (an Australian accent that sounds more like a poorly done English accent, and a gay man's voice that sounds more like a Golden Girl), and the writing is really weird about a main character who is a gay man. The main character is very "omg I'm so glad I have a gay relative, I've always loved gay men", and her friend even says she "borrowed a neighbour's gay cousin to go shopping". I get that some people still talk that way about gay men, but I find it hard to believe someone in their 20s/30s in LA would reduce a gay man to an accessory like that, and I certainly don't want to read it. I couldn't get past the audiobook voices and the tokenism of a gay bff, so won't be finishing it.