reubenalbatross 's review for:

The High House by Jessie Greengrass
DID NOT FINISH: 62%

I thought I was close to being done with this, then looked and saw I had over 2 hours left, and I just couldn't face carrying on with it.
 
The HUGE issue with my experience was the narration of the audiobook. The book itself seemed 3 star-ish, but I think I would have continued it if it weren't for the ATROCIOUS narration.
 
The narrator for Caro was fine, I had no issues with them. BUT, the narrators for Sally and Pauly were SO bad. Their cadence was so weird and disjointed. Sentences were broken up and it was impossible to feel the flow of the story - I even completely lost track of what the characters were saying in places because everything was so clipped while also being unnecessarily drawn out.
 
Sally and Pauly's narrators also gave pretty much no emotion or feeling. This may have been a stylistic choice, but due to the baffling reading cadence, I'm more convinced that they're just not very good voice actors. 
 
It's a true shame that the narration made me DNF this book, as I thought it discussed some interesting ideas. I just couldn't get past the audiobook’s lacklustre delivery.