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The Fall Risk by Abby Jimenez
3.0

Loved this book so much that I picked up the audiobook. Unfortunately, I felt that the narration fell short of the book. The book is a 5⭐ read but the audiobook is a 3⭐ narration. 

While Connor was decent enough, I didn't feel very satisfied with Julia's performance. Her narration in general was perfect but her dialogue reading for Charlotte's character was very off. 

Charlotte is supposed to be a nervous, anxious and wary character. Julia's tone was very confident, sultry and strong, which didn't match Charlotte at all. It was very hard to immerse in the story via the audio because when Charlotte spoke, a lot of the time, it didn't match with how she was supposed to be feeling. Whenever she spoke about being stalked, she was supposed to sound scared, frustrated and defeated but Julia made her sound annoyed and gave "I'm so over it" vibes instead. 

Overall, the audiobook was sadly a letdown. I think it was just either a miscast or perhaps Julia just didn't fully understand and empathise with Charlotte's character and experience which led to a disappointing performance.