
Just Stab Me Now
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Narrated by:
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Jill Bearup
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By:
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Jill Bearup
A desperate mother. A dubious escort. And a deranged author who won’t leave them alone. Caroline Lindley is determined that her new romance novel will be her best one yet. Fantasy! Formal gowns! Fencing! And, of course, a twentysomething heroine to star in an enemies-to-lovers plot with all of Caroline’s favourite tropes.
But Lady Rosamund Hawkhurst is a thirty-six-year-old widow with two children, her sole focus is facilitating a peace treaty between her adopted nation and her homeland, and she flatly refuses to take the correct approach to there being only one bed. What’s an author to do?
Based on her popular Fantasy Heroine YouTube Shorts series, Jill Bearup’s debut novel brings us the best of worlds both meta- and medieval-inspired. Terry Pratchett aficionados will enjoy the political intrigue paired with convivial, tongue-in-cheek satire. And then there's the slow-burn, fade-to-black romance too…
If you loved Stranger Than Fiction and The Princess Bride, you will soon find yourself cheering on enemies-to-BFFs Rosamund and Caroline as together they learn what it means to be the hero of your own story.
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Characters actual keep their heads and don't do stupid things to further the plot. It avoids the actual unmentionable part (which is what I suppose is what the Romance target audience is there for but I find those part in all media unnecessary, just fade to black, we get the idea now move toward the next plot point) so it can be listened to by all audiences.
The reader/author inflects and gives emotion where appropriate.
Not dumb
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Despite all the technical difficulties Jill worked through to narrate her own book, I am grateful she persevered. No one could have done the narration better. 🥰
Perfectly chosen narrator
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must read!!
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How good Jill is at narrating.
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A long awaited treat
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My only significant constructive critique is to have a more defined transition between book-world and semi-real-world. Type-set and font is good to convey the change in visual books, as lighting might be used in theatre to change tone or focus, but a replacement is needed for audiobooks. The changes were so sudden and unexpected that I had to backtrack some to get my bearings. (Readers: it's manageable, just know they come up anywhere in the chapter.)
While I realize this story sounds like everything is wrapped up for Lady R and Leo, I would love to revisit them in a sequel. (Free Brainstorm for author: A third country manipulated/helped Lord MW with his doings, and now they are being more of a direct problem?)
Or perhaps a prequel seeing a younger Lady R and Heugo navigate court, noble new parenthood, and the prospects of war. (And would love to see expanded world building!)
All and all, this was a book I devoured in less than 48 hours (very unusual for me) and it gave the perfect balance of action-anxiety and cute-couple-overwhelm without going too far into detail description when not needed. I wish it was longer. Will be re-reading.
(And my theatre brain thinks there's possibilities for a stage production)
A Phenomenal first book for a new writer. It's Good, full stop.
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Only 1 reference to cheese?
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I wish there were more.
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Phenomenal Characters
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I like author reading it
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