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Written for college students on tiktok who liked the tripe sophmoric writing of EL James, who think they want it "dark" but really want it sanitized. MMC was supposed to be dark and dangerous- but what the reader "sees" is a guy that behaves like a beta playacting Too xxx for teens, but really that's who's going to enjoy this. Think the author got a checklist of what's going to offend the terminally offended, and tried to cut anything that might cause backlash. Storyline and characters could have been great. Too bad.
Read in 2 languages. It was just as funny in translation!
Oh i see you read Ilona Andrews as well, if so then you might prefer the WITCHES arc, try reading Witches 1 - Wyrd Sisters. Book or OG audio. There is an abridged audio version, new and old, as well, new one is not recommended and was severely cut so it no longer resembles the original. There's also an animated version.
It is imho one of his most boring books, improved greatly by the OG audiobook (NOT the new US released ones) or just zip through with movie). If this is your first time reading Pratchett, please try again with another storyline in the map (colour of magic is Rincewind 1, try Industrial age 1 - going postal or Death 1 - Mort).
About audiobook: Fantastic narration, narrator does the American equivalent of Nigel Planer, solo narration but does numerous voices so well (even women!) that you forget it's only one narrator and voices sound time appropriate (first half of 20th century NY). (Narrator switched from first book, do not recommended original narrator - he sounded way too similar to a 90s version of David Sedaris).
This could have been great but she added Christian moralizing and "preaching" to everything and has no understanding of other religions to the point of absurdity.
Read it again a decade later and went from loving it to not liking it. You will like this if you like Contemporary Romance done "Harlequin Romance" with a modern (90s-00s) twist.
GraphicAudio Audiobook edition. Boring. Tried reading it first and DNF, figured if anything Graphicaudio could make it much better. I finished it this way but it was a struggle. Not much happens. Great idea, but not up to Breene's other works.
