Great writer and readers, horribly condescending book and production.
I have listened to this author and readers several times before and they are very talented bunch of people. This book is very well written, like most such books it is easy to guess the plot twists, but that is one of the things I like about them. This book however decided to add endless sidebar of the male reader telling us not to worry as things will soon have an explanation. As if most people hadn’t guessed at the first few minutes of each story arch. At the big reveal literally the only thing most people hadn’t guessed was the favorite book genre of one of the mother and that was irrelevant either way. The avid readers/listeners I know don’t like to be interrupted all the time, specifically not by the “reader” patronisingly telling us things will soon become clear (in a very obvious book). There was also endless annoyance within the story (the characters being annoyed and annoying) which was more grating because of the format. The main annoyance was because of things there is noooo way nobody within the story would have guessed and noooo way any sane person wouldn’t have addressed 2-3 days earlier than they had planned to prevent the worry and friction.
