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🎧💛AUDIOBOOK REVIEW💛🎧🪵(@prhaudio#partner)

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🥰Thank you so much to Random House for the gifted ARC and @prhaudio for the gifted audiobook!

📖Title: What Kind of Paradise
✍️Author: Janelle Brown
📅Pub Date: June 3, 2025
⏳Audiobook Length: 11hrs, 42mins
🗣️Audiobook Narrators: Helen Laser & Peter Ganim

💛I had so much fun reading this book!

🪵When the story opened with a father and daughter living in an isolated cabin in the woods, I couldn’t help but get THESE SILENT WOODS (my fav book of all time) vibes. I am a SUCKER for stories about people hiding in the woods, hiding their identities, basically I just love hidden secrets because I’m nosey and NEED to know WHAT they’re hiding and WHY they’re hiding it! The question WHY kept me absolutely glued to this story!

📖Our main character, Jane, is 17 and knows no life outside of the four walls of her cabin and her very few friends in her small Montana community. And then Jane discovers the internet! After that, this book goes crazy as we watch Jane alone in the real world for the first time! Her naivety and lack of knowledge of societal norms made this coming-of-age story even better! Oh, and did I mention that it takes place in the early 1990s? All my favorite things rolled into one.

💛This story did not go in the direction I expected and I actually really appreciated that! So much of it felt super unhinged and original and I was totally there for it all! I don’t think this book fits neatly in a genre since there is a LOT going on, but you should just read it and enjoy it for what it is!

🎧The audiobook was narrated primarily by Helen Laser with parts done by Peter Ganim. Helen was so easy to listen to and while Peter’s parts were shorter, they definitely packed a punch!!! I highly recommend this one on audio!

❓How’s your week going? How’s your TBR? 🤪