A review by callienicole
The Knockoff by Jo Piazza, Lucy Sykes

1.0

I hesitated to list this one, because it's really not one I can recommend at all. I basically discovered that I can rent audiobooks from my library directly to my phone, and I was so excited that I snatched the first book I recognized, which happened to be this one that I heard about on Anne Bogel's podcast. The synopsis sounded like one of those fashion industry chick flicks, so I thought it might be fun to listen to. But there are a wide array of vices throughout this book, everything from heavy drinking, to shoplifting, to taking other people's prescription drugs, all treated as normal and fun. Several references to sexual relationships, and one brief sex scene which I skipped past as soon as I heard it coming, so I couldn't even tell you the level of innapropriateness. And the language! F-bomb is used liberally. I'm not even sure why I finished it other than the generational differences and the dynamic between Imogen and her boss was interesting to me - but the end came with no real insight or resolution to that aspect of the plot, leaving me disappointed. So I wouldn't recommend it.

I have to note though that I thought the narrator did a great job of reading the different characters in different voices. I did laugh out loud when she read lines by Imogen's husband though, because those romantic-sounding lines in her fake man voice came off creepily funny to me, haha! It's hard for women to read man lines and men to read woman lines in audiobooks, I think.