Tenemental

Adventures of a Reluctant Landlady

By: Vikki Warner

Narrated by: Rebecca Mitchell

An unsuspecting landlady navigates exploding plumbing, financial independence, and the 2008 market crash without a blueprint.

Detouring from the traditional timeline of marriage-kids-house, 26-year-old Vikki Warner skips straight to homeownership. She buys a run-down three-story house in Providence, Rhode Island, and suddenly finds herself responsible for a rotating cast of colorful tenants. Adulthood comes with unforeseen challenges: backed-up sewage, gentrification, global economic downturn.

Tenemental is a candid portrait of how sharing space profoundly reshapes our lives, and forces us to grow into ourselves.

©2018 Vikki Warner (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

painfully boring

How do you make commonplace seem exciting? I suppose whine a lot about the obvious and bring in irrelevant love interests as much as you can. I try to finish all books I purchase here, but I think I'm going to let this one go and just go back to a sci-fi or a documentary book I can enjoy. :(.

NOT a humorous story about interesting tenants

I expected much more humor and lots of stories about interesting characters occupying the apartments. The few attempts at humor fall flat and there is very little about the tenants, who most often are her friends before they rent.

Instead you get a story about a hiker than thou woman, who is quick to judge everyone around her. Some of the generalizations she makes about the male students at URI, the male doctor she deals with and the older residents in the neighborhood are offensive.

There is much more about her love life than about the tenants. At the end of the day, there is nothing of substance here. Nothing compelling.

The author tends to string together redundant sentences when being descriptive. When combined with the sing song speech pattern of the narrator, it’s simply not a pleasant listen.

I would not want her to be my land lady

It was definitely a good story, I like how it wasn't just about being a land lady but also about how it affected her personal life. However, I just don't understand how the author can claim to love her house enough to give it a name, but is allowing tenants to damage and destroy it. She claims it's because she's anti-gentrification but this book is mostly examples on how not to manage property.

Meh...

I guess I was hoping for more in depth stories of the renters. It was more about her trials. It was ok.

Not what expected.

I thought this book would be about funny crazy adventures the landlady encountered with her tenants over the years. What you get is an adult coming of age story. This story involves a women I her 20's who buys a house and she tells us why she bought the house, what some realities she encountered, her bad choices of staying in a relationship for the sake of just being in a relationship, and the ending becoming more and more politically based the closer you get to the end.

I felt as jilted as she must have been at the end if her long term relationships by the books end. I think the saddest part is that the book kept me intrigued, for some reason, which must mean the writing was good but the story was bad.

Now narration....ugh! I'm glad I could get through it but the inflections used were all wrong. What kept going through my mind over and over again was hiw the author said she loved how well this recording was done, she us proud of it and listened to the whole thing be made.

I'd pass on this book unless...nope, I can't think of anything, I'd pass.