Narration is lovely

Joel Leslie does a great job with the character voices (and, oh! how I love his Jamie and Vinnie voices!), pacing and timing.

I picked up the audio because I genuinely enjoy Joel Leslie, particularly his Australian accents, so even though when I had read the story I had been frustrated I thought maybe listening would have a different impact.

If anything the narration brings the bi-erasure that drove me crazy even more starkly to notice.

So while I can be objective and say the narration was wonderful, as expected, the story itself was almost more maddening to me via audio than reading.

There was an opportunity here to be inclusive. To give voice to a very marginalized, often persecuted, group…and it wasn’t taken. Not only wasn’t it taken, but I felt like the story took every opportunity to shut bisexuality down as hard as it possibly could be at every mention. And that’s disheartening.

If you can completely ignore the bi-erasure there’s a lot of warmth and love in this book. The friendship between Liam and Aaron is very sweet, the interactions between Vinnie and Aaron are, for the most part, lovely, and it’s a fun, cute read with likable characters, low angst, lots of sweetness, and a wonderful HEA.