10/12/2022

'22: thank you for listening // Julia Whelan

"cover up whatever you please for the world, but in intimacy? hide nothing. in intimacy, everything is beautiful."

pub: 2022
pages: 399
heard: september 1-15, 2022
book: 21 in 2022


THOUGHTS 
the banter is definitely better than Henry's but I think that just in general this kinda romance isn't for me. And it's not that it's not for me because Nina Hill! Half her story felt like 😑🤨 but I still loved it. with this one, idk. I don't hate it I'm just indifferent to it. Like I could've been okay without it. 

Yes stories can be farfetched but I think we decide internally just how much shit we can believe and my threshold for this one was broken pretty early on. 

I think my beef with this book is that Sawanee is super anti love (who can blame her?) But then outa well, not nowhere but, ya know,....., she has 2 dicks to chose from (not really) and for someone who doesn't believe, she's like super into both of them never questioning how anti all of it she was 2 seconds prior. 
Idk idk idk. I feel like she gave in too easy for someone who was so against romance (audio but anyway....)

Idk. 

It wasn't a bad listen to (audio route) but meh. maybe im still in a funk and no book is safe. idk. for me Nick was perfect and then they got in a fight and i was like okay spicy and then it gets resolved quicker than over night oats and idk. it wasn't that bad but i did zone out thru a lot of this book because i was kinda over it. 

i honestly dont know?




SPOILERS 
sawanee was on track to become a huge movie star but while on set she decided to go celebrate with her best friend A by jumping out a plane. originally her chute wasn't working but last minute it did and to celebrate that idk wtf she did but she ended up getting her eye taken out. Now it's been years and she's always rocking an eye patch. 
because of her actions, there went her movie career and instead A is the huge movie star. 

Sawanee is an audio narrator who goes by Sarah some shit who would read Audiobooks for a Jane something. 
Ever since the accident she doesn't do romantic audio anymore. Jane has now passed and her last request is for Sarah and Brock McStorm or someshit to do the audio of her last book. 

Long story short Sawanee is in Vegas to celebrate A for her success in idk what. They're at a club when A gets called to go back to LA for an audition so she goes leaving S alone and boom. Here comes Nick. 
They have one of those nights, connections, that's just once in a blue moon. 
They go their separate ways and that's it. 

Later, S gets the email about the audiobook request Jane left. She's still missing nick but now had moved on to chit chats with Brock McMuffin. (by this point they chat all the time about the project) 

They decided to finally meet (as sarah & mcmuffin) and of course it's on the night they both unbeknownst to each other, are both presenting and receiving an award for Jane (nick is Jane's nephew).
Except that Sawanee had no idea that, yes. NICK IS BROCK MCMUFFIN!!!!

In the end Sawanee learns that she needs to accept her shit so that other people can hurry up and accept her and her and mcmuffin end up together.  

That's the generality of it. I don't remember exactly how it ends. 

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