Mini Audiobook Review: Thank you so much to Scribner Books for the complimentary copy of this book!

This book is out now.

Sigh. I wanted to like this one. I fear this is more of it's not you, it's me.

I just was not really sure the point of the book? Perhaps I was not the right audience for it which is why it was so hard for me to enjoy. I was waiting for more to happen but then nothing did.
It sadly was not memorable for me. I know there will be others who love this.

I will say as my parents are getting older and have been empty nesters for quite sometime now. WIth my father recently retired, the tension between my mother and him are sky high. So I could really relate to hearing the mom and dad in this bicker back and forth because I know that will be them in the near future.

There was a paragraph that I felt was very poignant:
"When you're little, you're dependent on your parents. But as you grow up, the fear creeps in that at some point they will become dependent on you. Twenty years of looking after your own children, and then just as they finally left home and you can do what you want, your parents start to fall apart. It would be nice to have a few years of freedom in between the two. A few years of not caring. Not caring, and not caring. For others."

I had done the audio of this narrated by Harriet Walter and even she couldn't save this book for me. The book is very short and the audiobook is under 6 hours so it was a quick listen which is why I had not DNF it.

I feel bad for rating this book so low but I just felt lost while consuming it.