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⚽💕🫘AUDIOBOOK REVIEW🫘💕⚽(@prhaudio#partner)

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🥰Thank you so much to @thedialpress for the gifted book and @prhaudio for the gifted audiobook!

📖Title: Spectacular Things
✍️Author: Beck Dorey-Stein
📅Pub Date: July 1, 2025
⏳Audiobook Length: 11hrs, 51mins
🗣️Audiobook Narrator: Emily Rankin

⚽I had no idea what to expect going into this book, but since it was a Reese’s Book Club pick, I knew it would be a powerful story about strong women, and it definitely was that.

💕The sister bond was so strong between the two main characters, Mia and Cricket. Their sisterly relationship honestly felt so realistic (as someone who has two sisters, I speak from experience).

🫘I really liked how the book started in present day with a massive predicament and then went back in time and became a coming-of-age story for the two sisters. It was so helpful to see how their past circumstances shaped them into who they are today and also explains why their current situation is even more of a challenge than I initially perceived.

⚽There was quite a lot of soccer talk in this book as Cricket is a professional athlete, but I don’t think it ever became too much for me, and I’m not super into sports 🫣.

💕I do feel like I wanted a little bit more from the ending after how dramatically things started at the beginning of the book, but I also see why it is was written the way that it was.

🫘Overall, a well-written book that will really lead you to think deeply! It would be a fun one to discuss with a bookclub, as I have a LOT of strong opinions about the situations in the book I’d love to discuss with other readers.

🎧The whole book was read by Emily Rankin who did a wonderful job with all the different voices and emotions!

❓What have you read so far this week?