Lost for Words

By: Andrea Bramhall

Narrated by: Rachael Beresford

Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

Sasha Adams has it all. Fulfilling career, loving family, great friends, and . . . Who's she kidding? She lives at home with her aging mother, Fleur. She works as a massage therapist, and spends all her time with her best friend, Bobbi. But damn it, she's happy. Well, okay, maybe not happy, but she's content. It's enough. Until the well-meaning but meddlesome women in her life, Fleur and Bobbi, team up and enter Sasha into a writing competition with the potential to change her life.

Film producer and director Jac Kensington has the career she's spent thirty years honing to perfection, with little thought to her personal life. She helps run an annual scriptwriting competition in search of new talent and projects for her company to produce.

Meddling might have brought Jac and Sasha together, but fate has plans of its own. Sasha's life is on the brink of changing beyond all recognition in this bittersweet lesbian romantic comedy.

Contains mature themes.

©2018 Andrea Bramhall (P)2022 Tantor

Excellent book with background of grief.

Sasha represents so many of us with a secret goal, and a busy day to day existence. Her mother, Fleur is an amazing woman who successfully rehabbed from a lower extremity amputation after cancer surgery. Jak shares her success at directing movies with aspiring screenwriters by running an annual competition to make a movie out of an amateur's screenplay.

As usual, Andrea Bramhall writes a multilayered book with 3 dimensional characters, humor, pathos. Romance. The narration by Rachael Beresford was wonderful.

I loved the huge easter egg, of Angenla's prior book being the contest screenplay. The important issues of loss grief and death managed well,

I read everything that Andrea Bramhall writes. This one is as good as any of hers. Relistening now, to be able to categorize for my book challenge.

Funny

I laughed out loud so many times. Meaningful and exciting, what a story! I enjoyed every minute.

Interesting

Really like the relationship of the mother and daughter, the reaction from both of side is funny and caring.

Pleasantly surprised!

I have been reading Lesbian fiction for over 40 years and would have to put this story in the category of a modern classic. Well written with clever wit,it also devoted some serious, and not so serious attention to aging and all that comes with it. I really enjoyed it and was sad when it ended.

Loved this book

A great story, I actually like most of the characters. Lots of humor. Narration was excellent.

She trusts her readers

Such a great story! (OMG, the potpourri, LOL!) I loved both MC's, their very different personalities and the unique larger subject matter. Also, Bramhall trusts her readers by not overwriting. i mean, she doesnt detail every moment of every scene and all that should be implied in-between (ex: "... she parked the car, shut the car door, then walked up the path to the front door..."). Another thing, she doesn't insult us by writing every inner thought characters are having. Not does she repeat things already made clear 100 X's throughout the story. Her level of writing lends itself so that the reader understands the emotions/dilemmas the story has set up for us. No stating the obvious when we (the reader) are already ready to move forward with the story. I'm so tired of that crap.

Give me more, Miss Bramhall. I'm a big fan.

Smart writing

This is a great book for its smart writing - meaning it doesn’t follow the traditional sapphic romance novel rules of silly angst and bad communication. It is well written and mature. Plus it is a riot on the humor and has great romance. 🔥❤️ Will look for others by this author!!!

Not my fave by this author

Emoting was over the top sometimes. The character of Bobbie was rather unsympathetic. Fleur was amusing.

Heartbreaking, hilarious and hot scenes

Andrea Bramhall and Rachael Beresford combine to convey many perspectives on love and loss. Highly recommend Lost for Words.

Major grief and loss themes

Heads up, readers - this book is 1/3 love story and 2/3 grief story. Wish I would have known that going in. Wasn't good timing for me to be crying buckets over a book that was supposed to be a pleasant distraction.

That said, it's well written and well characterized, sometimes genuinely funny. The central relationship is quite oriented towards One True Love Forever and towards butch/femme roles, neither of which are my favorite themes, but I would have enjoyed the book had I not felt blindsided by the rest.