This was my first book of Irby's after having a lot of friends recommend her books to me for years, and I had a pretty good time with it! I definitely feel like I benefited from listening to the audiobook, and if she narrated her other books too, that's the format I'll choose for those as well.

I'm not sure if I would have finished this book if it weren't for Irby's engaging narration. While there were several moments that made me smile or even chuckle a little, they were all at the very beginning of the book, and then most of the following essays kind of lost my interest. I'll most likely check out another of her books to see if it was just an issue with this one, but I was a little let down. I'm hoping it's just an issue with Quietly Hostile because Irby strikes me as the kind of author I want to love, so hopefully the next one will be a better fit for me!

Thank you to the publisher and LibroFM for the audio review copy! All thoughts are honest and my own.

✨ Representation: the author is fat, disabled, chronically ill, Black, and queer