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A Mother's Guide to the Apocalypse
by Hollie Overton
DNFing at 58% after reading the reviews and seeing people rate this so highly. Biggest issue is that the author is using the one black woman in this story as a scapegoat for all that is bad even though the husband participated in cheating and alienating his wife by pretending like her anxiety is just her being a wackadoodle???
If we choose to separate ourselves from the discomfort by that, there is the biggest glaring plot hole whereSam makes out with Mel the moment he sees her?? If she is this evil woman that ruined your marriage why do you still have a soft spot for her?
Overall this first half of this book at least was just all over the place with too many storylines that were not well thought out and hard to follow. I didn’t like any of the characters and the plot itself was not executed well.
As far as the production of the audiobook, the narrator had perfect tone and pacing to listen to this at 1.25x speed and not have the sound be warped and I appreciated her diction. The amount of accents she attempted was unnecessary and distracted from the story as she didn’t get them all quite right. Would have appreciated her to just use her own accent or the production team hire additional voice actors.
I am not big on DNFing so I might come back to this to see if it is brought back around, but it is rather frustrating to see people skip over some very important points to give this high ratings. 2 stars for the idea behind the story just wish it was executed better.
**finished it because again my mind could not believe this was where the book was going but it was. I believe the author struggled with writing nuanced characters. I didn’t end up liking anyone in this book because even the “good guys” had their head so far up their own behind it was insufferable. They couldn’t admit to any of their own faults and I’m still shocked people are rating this any higher than a 3
If we choose to separate ourselves from the discomfort by that, there is the biggest glaring plot hole where
Overall this first half of this book at least was just all over the place with too many storylines that were not well thought out and hard to follow. I didn’t like any of the characters and the plot itself was not executed well.
As far as the production of the audiobook, the narrator had perfect tone and pacing to listen to this at 1.25x speed and not have the sound be warped and I appreciated her diction. The amount of accents she attempted was unnecessary and distracted from the story as she didn’t get them all quite right. Would have appreciated her to just use her own accent or the production team hire additional voice actors.
I am not big on DNFing so I might come back to this to see if it is brought back around, but it is rather frustrating to see people skip over some very important points to give this high ratings. 2 stars for the idea behind the story just wish it was executed better.
**finished it because again my mind could not believe this was where the book was going but it was. I believe the author struggled with writing nuanced characters. I didn’t end up liking anyone in this book because even the “good guys” had their head so far up their own behind it was insufferable. They couldn’t admit to any of their own faults and I’m still shocked people are rating this any higher than a 3