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banrions 's review for:
Broken Beyond Repair
by Emily Banting
Well. I didn’t love this one as much as many others seemed to. I liked it, but there were a few things holding me back from the love category. I listened to this one on audio, and I sort of wish a different narrator had been picked? Angela Dawe is fairly good with accents, and does a decent job, but (for me) it was a little distracting to have the narration and all the voices (since everyone in the book is someone from the UK) be dropping in and out of different accents. I sort of wish that a British narrator had been picked. That said, she’s a good performer (not actually among my favs, but reliably strong).
I’ll say upfront that I found all the Gertie stuff a little too much/it got on my nerves. I don’t find it endearing when people call intimate objects by name and then proceed to treat them like people. Especially cars. Maybe bc i just absolutely don’t care abt cars, idk, it got old for me fast.
In general, i wanted to like Sydney a bit more than I actually did. Like, yes, 100% Beatrice was a bit rude of an employer, but it was WILD to me that Sydney just burst into her bedroom, told her off abt how to behave around her own child, and was not seen as in the wrong for that? Similarly, (and I know a lot of this stemmed from her own issues with her dad) but the judgement on Beatrice’s reactions to her parents without knowing anything about them or her was also annoying to me. She was juuuuuuust on the cusp of too earnest/sunshine-y, for my personal tastes.
I did like Beatrice quite a bit, and I overall did enjoy their dynamic together, but I didn’t get much swoony or dreamy vibes from them in the way that some couples/stories really stick with you. I thought the pacing towards the end felt a little drawn out/off somehow, but it wasn’t enough to fully put me off to distract me. I’ll be checking out other books by the author, though, as I liked enough there to want more, and it’s the first audio that sucked me in in a while.
(I’ll admit, I’m in very much a reading slump at the moment, so that could be clouding my judgement slightly? But I don’t THINK so?).
I’ll say upfront that I found all the Gertie stuff a little too much/it got on my nerves. I don’t find it endearing when people call intimate objects by name and then proceed to treat them like people. Especially cars. Maybe bc i just absolutely don’t care abt cars, idk, it got old for me fast.
In general, i wanted to like Sydney a bit more than I actually did. Like, yes, 100% Beatrice was a bit rude of an employer, but it was WILD to me that Sydney just burst into her bedroom, told her off abt how to behave around her own child, and was not seen as in the wrong for that? Similarly, (and I know a lot of this stemmed from her own issues with her dad) but the judgement on Beatrice’s reactions to her parents without knowing anything about them or her was also annoying to me. She was juuuuuuust on the cusp of too earnest/sunshine-y, for my personal tastes.
I did like Beatrice quite a bit, and I overall did enjoy their dynamic together, but I didn’t get much swoony or dreamy vibes from them in the way that some couples/stories really stick with you. I thought the pacing towards the end felt a little drawn out/off somehow, but it wasn’t enough to fully put me off to distract me. I’ll be checking out other books by the author, though, as I liked enough there to want more, and it’s the first audio that sucked me in in a while.
(I’ll admit, I’m in very much a reading slump at the moment, so that could be clouding my judgement slightly? But I don’t THINK so?).