Author P.G. Wodehouse and narrator Jonathan Cecil are a match made in Audiobook Heaven!
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BAA-LAMB!
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I haven't giggled, sniggered, chortlAuthor P.G. Wodehouse and narrator Jonathan Cecil are a match made in Audiobook Heaven!
OH...
MY...
BAA-LAMB!
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I haven't giggled, sniggered, chortled, laughed and been cracked up so hard since.... well, since I finished Uncle Fred in the Springtime approx. 2 weeks ago and this was even better! I think it may even have surpassed The Code of the Woosters in my estimation. (Hmmm..... I need to re-read (re-listen) to it to pass final judgement on it.)
Bottom line is: Everyone needs an Uncle Fred in their lives "spreading sweetness and light". ... ... Erm, on second thought, maybe not ... OK, let me rephrase it a little.
Bottom-bottom line is: everyone needs to read about people having an Uncle Fred in their lives "spreading sweetness and light" and laugh madly at them like nobody's business.
2,5 stars rounded up to 3 because the narrator Ronke Adékoluejo helped me through the bits I found really bad and the ending almost makes up for how f2,5 stars rounded up to 3 because the narrator Ronke Adékoluejo helped me through the bits I found really bad and the ending almost makes up for how frustrating the rest of the book was.
I wanted to like this book and its MC so much and was so disappointed when I couldn't.
But I guess I've become too old to find anything funny in a plot where a female MC is forced into the most cringey situations. Also the constant lying to save some imaginary face is one of the tropes I hate the most. I cannot help disliking characters who at 30 behave like they were 13 and are nasty to their friends. Just nope. The Nigerian background and some of the secondary characters (Nana, Donovan) made it better, but they were not pronounced enough to save the book completely.
I liked Bridget Jones-stuff in its heyday, but not for some time now.
A weird kind of fictionalised non-fiction, though if we consider that it is based on the highly questionable memoirs of Anna Leonowens herself whose vA weird kind of fictionalised non-fiction, though if we consider that it is based on the highly questionable memoirs of Anna Leonowens herself whose veracity was found to be serioysly wanting, it may be called fiction after all....more
After all that suffocating toxicity and mind sickness I'm totally in need of therapy and possibly [image]
FINALLY, I COULD GET OUT OF THIS CAR!!
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After all that suffocating toxicity and mind sickness I'm totally in need of therapy and possibly a shower or 3. If it weren't for a "book club" read, I would have dnf-ed right after chapter 1 and that's saying something.
You know I can buy a little into the characters having gone through some changes, but the author's choice to force her traumatised female MC to get back with his weak-and-dick-af Ex is both worrying and depressing. So is the fact that she thinks adding weeing and breast-pumping, pervs and peepers and stalkers to the plot should serve as the comic relief.
Kristen Painter is my trusted author when I need a fix of fluffy, clean paranormal romance with quirky, small-town setting.
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Kristen Painter is my trusted author when I need a fix of fluffy, clean paranormal romance with quirky, small-town setting.
There's unavoidable insta-love/lust to her stories, but the fact that there is some kind of plot besides the romances helps. And I love the Halloween-town-feel....more
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