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AND Sachar's misogyny emerges.

Oy Ch. 55. Boring. We've apparently reached the point where this jumps the shark.

Protip: listen at 1.2 speed. Mitigates the THIS IS A CHILDREN'S BOOK tenor.

Oh no. Edoardo Ballerini reading an adult novel like it's a children's book Oy.

Blerg. This is turning into a full on romance, and so much more boring.

Starting to become so heartbreaking that I feel like I need to take a pause 😢

Ah ha. This may also be a story of misogyny. Of the male scholar's virgin-whore belief about women.

Okay, doing some interesting things with academia (rather than merely dry comedy). This is a meditation on minoritization and the 'model minority' phenom. On the work of the archive. It begs whether it's all a dream and on suggests (non too subtly) that historians only ever restate the work other other propagandists.

Ah, gender reversal.

now substantially less funny, but still okay

ACADEMIC HILARITY

This is looking like a DNF @ Ch. 10. With a mighty wish that literary & emotional maturity standards were slightly higher for YA books in the post-Harry Potter era.

Ch. 38. The place where this should be wrapping up, yet Ryan opens another chapter.

[eyeroll]

Oh no. And now a pointless argument. #Filler

Okay, turns out someone called Grace Gray is the narrator, and holds a degree in voice acting from Manchester Metropolitan University. LOVELY potential, with not a bit of skill when it comes to doing foreign accents. So bad that I'm almost tempted to DNF https://www.linkedin.com/in/thegracegray

unnamed narrator

YIKES cringe American Accent. French too. Hire a actual actor y'all.

at about the 25% mark, this swings from an adventure, character based tale to a YA mess. And the question is raised with some ferocity: why would someone being trained in the art of seduction and feminine wiles look to a 22 year old dude for wisdom? And who would not equally equip her in the manipulation of getting OUT of situation she courted?