Reviews with content warning for Addiction - Thank You for Listening

A perfect book. Peppered with moments of deep contemplation with some of the greatest wisdom I’ve read in a book, Thank you for Listening is real and raw while having the most unrealistic romance I’ve read. But it’s acknowledgement of this improbable relationship somehow makes it even more true to life. Julia Whelan is an impressive writer and an my favorite narrator. I’ve never heard someone pour as much into what she reads

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Romance is a relatively new genre for me and sometimes I can't get over how cheesy some of the lines and smut scenes are that it usually breaks me out of the story and I will visibly roll my eyes. That feeling was exploited in the best way because the characters played off the cliches in their banter and it made it so much more funny to me while listening. Julia Whalen also did a great job with the accents and voice changes in a way it didn't feel overly fake and again playing off the fake voice as a key part of one of the characters added to the humor of the story. Swanee has her flaws (duh, part of the story) but I loved Nick all the way around. The part about Doug? the ex-boyfriend was a little underdeveloped and think could have been left out.

The "twist" is easy to spot but it made me so excited to see everything lead up to it and comes in the middle of the book so there is plenty of time for more drama and apologies. The overall plot was strong and though the romance was heavy, there were other subplots that talked about disabilities, familial relationships, friendships and other trials of life that keep the book thoroughly engaging.

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3.0

there were parts i liked and parts i didn’t like. it was an average read for me and i honestly don’t feel like dissecting all that i disliked in a review. if you like emily henry’s writing, you may like this?? idk, it’s more of contemporary fiction with a romance subplot but there were just too many subplots going on for me.

disability rep: missing eye, facial trauma

⚠️: injury/injury detail, infidelity (not mc), dementia, death, ableism, suicide attempt, addiction

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emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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ingrid6's review against another edition

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funny reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I mostly enjoyed this book. Just a few sticking points.
- FMC was kind of a snob. I think her love for words and correcting people were to make her seem smart and literate and very into her work but honestly to me she just seemed like a jerk.
- This is just a personal thing but my unreasonable ick is musicians in romances. I don’t know why I can’t explain it in any way. I liked Nick otherwise.
I enjoyed their emails and texts and banter in general. Sometimes they got a little more poetic than I think anyone having a real life conversation would but hey it’s fiction.

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emotional funny lighthearted slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Okay, so this book was one that I picked up purely because it met one of the reading challenges for the Kindle Unlimited ribbon things. Kindle Unlimited has a quarterly reading challenge, and I've been determined to finally complete all of them this time around. Anyways I picked this one up for the Best of 2022 challenge, and I was so curious about this book because I hadn't seen anything about it until working on this challenge. I think the whole synopsis sounded really interesting. But the book ended up not being my favorite. I think I just had some really high hopes for it because I thought we were going to be centered around this big comic con thing for books. Even though we started out that way, we quickly shifted away from that. I really loved the conversations between the two main characters whenever they were texting during the recording of the book. But things just kept swiveling away. There were a lot of heavy topics in this book, and I just felt like so many things were happening that it was hard to focus on one thing. I kind of lost track of things because I just wanted to get back to Sewanee's relationship. I just don't think this book was for me. It wasn't a bad book, and I really liked the romance, but I just kept getting pulled out of it because there was so much going on around it.

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emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

A bit predictable but lots of adorable characters and funny moments. Serious topics were handled well. Rather tame in the spice department.

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emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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