Thank You for Listening

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Thank You for Listening

By: Julia Whelan

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

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Fiction

Friendship

Genre Fiction

Romance

Romantic Comedy

Women's Fiction

Comedy

Dream

Feel-Good

Tear-jerking

Witty

Funny

Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Romance Romantic Comedy Women's Fiction Comedy Dream Feel-Good Tear-jerking Witty Funny

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I loved Whelan's debut book and this follow up did not disappoint. This woman is so insanely talented. As a narrator, she takes on every single character with great gusto and gives them individuality and personality. As an immensely clever writer, she manages to turn a rom-com full of every single romance trope into a most original and wildly entertaining story, simultaneously a satire about and a homage to the romance genre. How can anyone fail to love this story featuring audiobook narrators written with such wit and charm by the reigning queen of narration herself?

Listening to Whelan expertly bringing to life her wonderfully rendered characters, I alternately teared up and hooted with laughter throughout the book. There are so much raw emotions and a wagyu-grade meaty backstory explaining Sewanee's lack of confidence and unwillingness to believe in HEAs. Her eye patch hid more than the visible scars for while her face was disfigured by the accident, her dreams and ambitions and were pulverised when her promising acting career was cut so brutally short.

The enigmatic Brock McKnight aka Irish charmer with the baritone voice capable of turning women listeners to jelly, not the firm jelly, but the sloppy, melted kind. Irish! Need I say more?!! The bantering is first-grade, the emails sublime, the texts transcended even that.

The cast of secondary characters is just dynamite. The star actress bestie, the flamboyant nan and her irrepressible friends at the aged care home, other friends and relatives - each are so vividly portrayed and so are the relationships Sewanee had with these. The story is complicated and layered and goes beyond just boy meets girl, although the boy meets girl part was done deliciously well, so much so that Whelan gave us a second boy meets girl scene to savour and gush over. The very accurate and moving depiction of the slow absorption of a brilliant personality into the haze of cognitive decline is inspired by Whelan's personal brush with dementia. In fact as Whelan is at pains to point out in the enlightening author's end notes, though much of the storyline was inspired by various experiences she has had in Hollywood and in the world of narration and romance literacy, none were actually based on real life characters. Like this book, real life brings with it its share of laughter, heartbreak and unpredictability, but surely real life can never be consistently this much fun and exhilarating for 11 hours straight!