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The Burnout by Sophie Kinsella
4.0
✨ Review ✨ The Burnout by Sophie Kinsella; Narrated by: Bessie Carter
This was my first book by Sophie Kinsella and it made me laugh out loud. The premise is relatable - a woman overwhelmed by work, suffering from burnout, and feeling at a dead end. She quickly decides maybe she'll run away to the convent down the street, but instead of getting her Sound of Music moment, all she runs into is a brick wall.
While the burnout component isn't funny, the book is filled with the silly and ridiculous alongside some genuinely moving reflection on the main character's life and her journey to find herself again. I loved her friendship with the male main character, and eventual romance, though that didn't really have the space it needed to bloom and grow.
The setting of the main part of the book in a small beach town was delightful and her efforts to chase self-help culture via yoga and meditation and kale smoothies definitely was a real lol moment (again, relatable in that this stuff can be helpful but also way overdone). There's a sort of mystery at the heart of this book as well that I enjoyed but didn't feel quite fulfilled by in the end.
Full of a hilarious cast of characters this is great in audio form. I thought the narrator really brought the story to life and made the comedy feel even more funny than reading it on the page. An absolute hoot!
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This was my first book by Sophie Kinsella and it made me laugh out loud. The premise is relatable - a woman overwhelmed by work, suffering from burnout, and feeling at a dead end. She quickly decides maybe she'll run away to the convent down the street, but instead of getting her Sound of Music moment, all she runs into is a brick wall.
While the burnout component isn't funny, the book is filled with the silly and ridiculous alongside some genuinely moving reflection on the main character's life and her journey to find herself again. I loved her friendship with the male main character, and eventual romance, though that didn't really have the space it needed to bloom and grow.
The setting of the main part of the book in a small beach town was delightful and her efforts to chase self-help culture via yoga and meditation and kale smoothies definitely was a real lol moment (again, relatable in that this stuff can be helpful but also way overdone). There's a sort of mystery at the heart of this book as well that I enjoyed but didn't feel quite fulfilled by in the end.
Full of a hilarious cast of characters this is great in audio form. I thought the narrator really brought the story to life and made the comedy feel even more funny than reading it on the page. An absolute hoot!
⭐️⭐️⭐️