Member Review

Unfortunately, I couldn’t get into this book. I tried on and off over the last two months to listen to it while painting, driving, cleaning, and even just sitting to listen and I just couldn’t get into it. 
I was really excited to listen to a horror/thriller on audio, but the narrator was really monotone and unenthusiastic, it was a struggle to get through it. The main character, Joey, is female (which I didn’t even realize until some gendered comments from other characters) but the audiobook narrator is male, and it felt like he really struggled to embody the character’s personality other than just being… dry. The stream of consciousness narration was really hard to follow at certain points, and Joey’s character is honestly just kind of rude. I’m sure that was probably intended, with her tough, not-like-other-girls attitude, but it wasn’t enjoyable.

None of the characters really held my interest, and I found myself not really caring what happened to them. The main plot of the story sounded really interesting, so I was disappointed that it didn’t keep me hooked at all. I may consider trying to read the Kindle version of Bleed More, Bodymore at some point and see if my opinion of the characters and the story overall change… but as for the audiobook, I DNF because it was physically painful to listen to the narrator. 
Hopefully the text version is better than the audio if I decide to pick it up again.
One star for audiobook, two stars in hopes that the text version is better.