5 disco balls
Published: March 6, 2018 by HarperAudio
Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi & Julia Whelan
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Category: Literary Fiction, LGBT
I have been on an audiobook roll lately and hope to keep up the momentum. I am one who prefers to read an actual book, but likes to listen to audiobooks during my drives (or to make doing chores more bearable). There have been a few times where I felt that I had a better experience listening rather than reading and this here is one of them!
Narrator Prentice Onayemi starts the first part of this book and he was absolute perfection. I felt as though I was listening to Prentice – as Niru – tell me his story; as if I was grabbing coffee with him and we were engaged in a conversation. He made Niru real, lent a voice to his story and his family. My goodness was this story beautifully written: there is no doubt that author Iweala is extremely talented.
Niru and Meredith are best friends, both living in wealthy neighborhoods, both with parents that do not understand them; but one set is absent and the other overbearing. Both teenagers crave acceptance and feeling, it will be their unraveling.
After Niru tells Meredith he is gay, his quiet internal life becomes quiet externally as well. He is angry, sad, alone. His religious, homophobic father will find out and Niru will blame Meredith, causing Niru to lose his only person in this world – now more alone and misunderstood than ever.
When the audiobook cuts to Part II: ‘Meredith’ about ¾ of the way through I was confused and actually scared. The events that will happen are not what I expected; goodness did it knock me off my axis a bit. You will not be able to stop and pause without listening to the last 1.5 hours – you just can’t.
If you are in the market for an audiobook, want to try an audiobook, heck even if you don’t like audiobooks – I recommend you give this one a go. Narrator Prentice Onayemi will win you over in less than 1 minute.
Have you read/listened to Speak No Evil? What was the last audiobook that gave you all the feels?
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Oh!! This sounds lovely! I’ll have to snag this one! Great review!
Erica | Erica Robyn Reads
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5 Disco Balls! Happy days. I think I need to add this to my Audible wishlist. Fantastic review.
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you will not regret it! 😘
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Might be too dangerous to listen to while driving then 😉
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I love audiobooks! That’s how I get all my reading done. I’ll have to look into this one further. 😃
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This sounds WONDERFUL!
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it is!!! 😘
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I love when I’m able to get lost in the story. Great review!
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This sounds really good. I will have to check it out!
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I didnt liked the book early on but it did grow on me over time. It did become very interesting the moment there seemed to be some interaction between the characters.Five stars! I likewise suggest to read http://bit.ly/2Lg7tuy . Thank you so much PS: I like this website.
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