A review by sea_tea_books
The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective slow-paced

3.0

The judgements — and misjudgments — about the people we briefly encounter, and an experiment into social engineering.

This story started off strong, yet eventually fell back into the tired tropes of miscommunication, assumptions, and missed connections. 

Audiobook-specific issue: the narrator didn't leave a pause between time jumps so two different timeframes blended into one. 

Quite the coincidental plot twist — why would Mary go to an art class that Julian was teaching and expect to have a chat while he's clearly preoccupied? Why wouldn't Mary have gone to the cottage she lived in all those years with Julian?


I deducted a star when
multiple characters suggested that Monica should pursue a relationship with a relapsing addict (Hazard) so she could be his pseudo-babysitter, responsible for keeping him in line and thereby absolving him of taking accountability for his choices.


3 ⭐
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