The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl

De: Melissa Keil

Narrado por: Roshelle Fong

Seventeen-year-old Alba is an aspiring comic book artist, pastry enthusiast and eternal optimist. She thinks life in her tiny town is awesome (if predictable), and she never wants it to change. Unfortunately Alba's just finished year 12 - so the only thing she can predict is that everything's going to change. Even so, Alba didn't see the end of the world coming. Apart from a questionable television psychic, no one did. And for some reason, the world seems to be taking this guy seriously.

As the tiny town is besieged by doomsday enthusiasts, Alba's life is thrown into chaos. The childhood friend she thought was gone forever unexpectedly reappears; the boy who has been her best friend forever is determined to leave; and even her latest comic book creation, Cinnamon Girl, is out of control. It could be the very last summer of Alba's life, but impending Armageddon might turn out to be the least of her problems. Alba is about to discover that when it comes to her heart, there may not be infinite time to get things right....

©2014 Melissa Keil (P)2016 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

The story is great, the narration is not.

The narrator goes completely over the top in this book. It's exhausting to listen to her. It seemed like she screamed out the entire book at the top of her voice with maximum screech. Not only that, but this hyperactive performance is at odds with the story. The first person narrator character in the book is emotional, but also comfortable with silence and the quiet of everyday.
This is one of those rare cases when I would recommend the accessibility text to speech robotic app voices more than the actual audio book.

The book itself is a good coming of age story about learning to deal with change.