Straight Girls Don't Cry

An age-gap nanny, toaster-oven/first-time lesbian, neurodivergent character, happily-ever-after rom-com romance novel

De: S.E. Chandler

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

She’d lost almost everything…until a family found her.

Canny, well, she goes by her last name because Rose never fit her anyway, is getting by week to week–and sometimes, table to table–after dropping out of art school. So what if she's talented. Life isn't supposed to work out for the daughter of an addict and get-rich-quick (get-broke-quicker) schemer.

Still Canny believes in humanity and helps out an overwhelmed mom of three, Ella, struggling to enjoy a meal out with a useless husband, Callahan. Ella offers Canny a nanny job, but she has reservations–and no idea what a nanny does. Of course, she falls in love with the Three Amigos, and can’t believe her luck with Ella’s generous offer.

She soon finds herself falling for Ella too. Useless Husband’s philandering pushes them together...but then drives them apart. Will her lost chances and found family go the distance or end in agony ever after?

Tropes: age-gap, divorce/infidelity; nanny romance; toaster oven, primary character with intellectual disabilities

Lovable Characters

Age Gap Romance between a starving artist and a woman with three kids and a philandering husband. After meeting at a restaurant Ella offers Canny a job as a nanny. This is a great love wins in the end.

Story Great, virtual audio is less than ideal

This Straight Girl series by the Author are cute little fun reads. Light hearted love story. But the choice to chose a virtual audio to perform the story is a bad decision. Too robotic and a struggle to get through.

Such a beautiful storyline

I loved this book start to finish. I think Canny’s relationship with everyone in the book was beautiful. Her relationship with Ross, and also Ella’s kids, in particular had my heart so happy. I was crying happy tears by the end.

Good Story

I will never listen to a virtual audio book again.
The book was great, but the audio ruined it.

Second Chances & Beautiful Connections

I really enjoyed this title, even with the AI narration. Very lovely and healing for all the characters who were able to turn over new leaves together.

The Virtual Voice narration is horrible but the story is great

I love this story of a toaster oven, age gap love story between two women, one of whom has three children of her own. The main characters are so relatable as are the secondary characters such as Ross who has Downs Syndrome and a big dream.

However, the narration completely sucks. It is AI generated Virtual Voice, and it fails miserably. The virtual voice reads the book straight without any passion or voice acting. For example, when a character is in the throes of a monster orgasm the AI just reads the words and has no idea what they should sound like.

There’s a lot of work needed for the so-called virtual voice before it will be ready for a book like this.

Had I known the audiobook narration was going to be so bad I would have just bought the print edition. But, having said all that, I will say that if you choose this book, choose it for the wonderful story. Just be advised that the narration is going to suffer a whole lot.

Inclusion and diversity

I loved the disability runner, storyline parallel with his sister’s lesbian narrative. I hated the screen reader speech the AI speech was terrible and mispronounce lots of words and made it confusing at times to tell who was talking.

Virtual Voice

Had to give the virtual voice a chance but it's so emotionless like I expected 😕 won't be listening to audiobooks narrated by a computer. that's not what I pay monthly for. hire someone to record these books please