Do you know what’s my favorite thing about reading fiction?
It relaxes me.
But Thank You For Listening by Julia Whelan didn’t relax me. It’s irritatingly not a good, easy read. This Book and I did not connect. This book feels like it’s from a different planet and I was not understanding it correctly. The words were not coming through and I had to push through reading it.
I’m really thankful I bought this on sale on Google Play Books. I don’t know when books are on sale there. That’s why I check it everyday. I bought this book 70% less its actual price.
I finished Thank You For Listening so you don’t have to. Bookish friends, with the crazy inflation, we cannot afford reading a bad book. This is me saving you time and money.
Thank You For Listening by Julia Whelan Spoiler
Sewanee (introduced herself as another name Alice) and Nick have a one night stand in Las Vegas.
June French wanted Sarah and Brock to do her audiobook. Sarah and Brock constantly message each other and are growing fond of each other via messaging.
There’s an an audiobook award event, Nick is there on behalf of his dead aunt June French. Sewanee and Nick see each other again. Sewanee tells Nick she used a fake name.
Sewanee’s grandmother assisted living facility calls Sewanee and tells her her grandma tried to kill herself. Sewanee rushes to the facility, Nick comes along. Sewanee for the first time calls Brock. She finds out Nick and Brock are the same person. Nick also finds out that Sewanee and Sarah are the same person. Nick admits he initially approached Sewanee in Las Vegas because he saw her with her famous bestfriend Adaku. Sewanee walks out.
Next scene, Adaku tells Sewanee she didn’t get the part in her movie. They fight not because she didn’t get the part. She feels down and Adaku is all positivity. Sewanee just wants to hate the world for a moment.
Next scene, Sewanee goes to Venice to see her mother. Nick is there that evening in Venice to see Sewanee. They make up. Nick casually says they go to City Hall. They do the audiobook episodes.
Adaku is in the hospital. Nothing serious. Sewanee and Nick go back to Los Angeles.
Sewanee’s grandma dies. Nick proposes to Sewanee at her DEAD MOTHER’S FUNERAL.
Why is Sewanee Chester wearing an eye patch?
As I understood it, I told you I was not connecting with this book, seven years ago Sewanee was so high after skydiving that she wanted to hug the plane she jumped out off and the plane’s propeller got her.
“The propeller had sliced diagonally down my face, taken my right eye, and separated my clavicle from my shoulder. I was so lucky. It could have been so, so, so much worse. If it had been going any faster, if I’d run into it at a different angle”
Scenes I Hate
1. Nick/Brock goes to Venice
Sewanee goes to Venice to visit her mother last minute. That evening, Nick is there in Venice to see Sewanee to sort their misunderstanding.
I know this is just fiction, anything can happen, but this scene is trying hard to be romantic. There are other ways to rekindle two characters but the author decided this way. It’s not good.
No one flies to another continent to see the person they are attracted to and explain himself especially when they had a one night stand and are attached to one another because of their constant messaging to each other. AND ESPECIALLY, when you know the person is temporarily in Venice and is going back to their home country.
Nick and Sewanee are not even in a relationship when she flew to Venice. Nick could have waited in Los Angeles and called Sewanee.
2. Nick proposes during the funeral of Sewanee’s dead grandma
Nick is sick. Time and place, Nick. Time and place.
Imagine you are grieving for your grandma you love so much and your boyfriend pops the question. Can you not wait, Nick??
Julia Whelan, with all due respect, it’s like you intentionally made this a bad book.
Note: I wrote this spoiler thinking about the romance side of the book. I did not include the part about Sewanee’s grandma and dad and more.
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