Rachel Lacey never disappoints and neither does Quinn Riley. The latter narrating a story by the former is always a sure bet. Each book by Rachel Lacey is a promise of warmth, of love, of a satisfying balance between angst and spice, with some character growth and empowerment thrown in. Quinn Riley’s voice, her range, her acting skills complement Lacey’s writing ideally, infusing her own light and the perfect dose of vulnerability as she brings the characters to life.
The main characters in The View from the Top are Emily, who embodies the contentedness of living in a small town, and Diana, from a wealthy, corporate, Bostonian family. Emily loves her life and doesn’t want to see it change. When she finds out her grandmas are considering selling their inn to a corporation, she feels her world crumble. All the more so as the person acting on behalf of the corporation is the woman she just shared an incredible one-night stand with.
At the very beginning, a tiny part of me was worried that the premise seemed similar to Read Between the Lines (the big corporation ruining the small business while sparks fly between the representative of the former and the owner of the latter), but it was actually very different. There’s no David fighting Goliath. There’s, however, a lot of growth, finding oneself, getting out of one’s comfort zone, family issues (biological and found), empowerment. And humour and spice and all things nice.
This audiobook was the perfect escape, and I have to say, having met both the author and the narrator, they are some of the nicest people on earth, and while I try to ignore my feelings about creators I dislike while reading their books, I’ll on the contrary allow all the good ones to add to my joy of reading. And so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that hearing Quinn Riley read the acknowledgement page and what Rachel Lacey wrote about her made my heart glow. She deserves all the compliments, and the respect they hold for each other makes it even better. In the end, the ones who benefit the most from this is us, the readers and listeners. 4.5⭐️
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