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Bananapants

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Bananapants

By: Penny Reid
Narrated by: Colin Brown, Fiona Fischer
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Estranged childhood friends unexpectedly reunite under bizarre circumstances and bicker their way to love in this bonkers romantic comedy.

Ava Archer misses her best childhood friend most especially during the month of April. Ask any tax attorney, it's a lonely, grueling time of year. Luckily, Ava has just received a surprising and delectably absurd offer from her posh doppelgänger at work. She must pretend to be the aforementioned posh co-worker for one night at an extremely fancy party; a party so fancy, there exists absolutely no chance anyone will recognize her or suspect her ruse. . .

Desmond (Des) Sullivan is a thief. And not the heart-of-gold kind. He’s the steal-from-the-rich-and-give-to-the-also-rich-so-he-can-get-paid kind. He does, however, have one firm rule: never steal what the target can’t afford to lose. After a brutal falling out with his father, Desmond hasn’t returned to Chicago in over ten years. But when a good friend is swindled and something priceless is stolen, Desmond must return home, both as himself and his thieving alter ego.

Infiltrate a dangerous secret society of the world's most elite billionaires while leveraging his estranged father’s resources and not blowing his cover? Sure. No problem. Or it wouldn’t be a problem if Ava Archer hadn’t just walked into the room, wearing a ridiculous wig, speaking with a preposterous accent, and pretending (badly) to be someone she’s not.

Bananapants is a full-length, contemporary romantic comedy filled with hijinks and shenanigans. It can be listened to as a standalone, but the parents of the main characters will be familiar to anyone who has explored the Knitting in the City series.

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Thank you so much for this gem, Penny!

Humor, good pace, romance and so much more.
I enjoyed the ADHD-I representation without it being in focus. (I have it myself)
As always with this authors books I either find them a 4.5-5 star read or DNF (few) - this one is among her top 3, and she has clearly evolved from some of the issues I found in earlier books.
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Difficult book to review

I struggled to work out whether I enjoyed this book or not and as such it’s difficult to review.

What I liked; Des is a great character, he has his challenges with mental health but in many ways he is one of the most “normal” mmc I’ve read about in a while. I love the way the author has set out his thought processes, and he’s entertaining and funny. I liked the narrative around Des’s mental illness, it was thought provoking and educational without being too overpowering. I also loved Sue, such a great character, and her relationship with Des was entertaining. I liked the whole mystery going on around the contract Des was after, and the stuff around Des’s job.

What I didn’t like; Ava is throughly irritating. Shes naive in the extreme (I get she is meant to be coddled), she is ridiculous at times, and I detested the way we had endless monologues around her thinking which just got in the way of the action. Far too much of what was going on in Ava’s head, and so repetitive. There wasn’t enough of the mystery/contract stuff. We were teased with the edges of what was going on, and then the door was closed on all the action stuff. It was like the author didn’t really know what the book was going to be, straight forward romance, or romantic suspense. Maybe that’s her thing, but I found it frustrating in the extreme.

All of the above made the book very bitty for me, like it wasn’t one homogenous piece of literature. I have read one of the previous Knitting in the City books (Alex) and although I remember having read it I didn’t rush to read the others which suggests it wasn’t a favourite.

The narrators were OK. Both were poor at the other gender so would have been better in duet. I found the female narrator rather loud and she didn’t seem to understand nuance. I found myself turning the volume up or down depending on who was speaking.

I listened to the end so it wasn’t a total loss, but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend spending a credit.

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