I want to start by saying that the story is great! It’s funny and engaging and I love the world building and pacing. it ticks all my boxes for a m/m UF book and I love it. Reading the book was so much more fun than listening to it.
That said…Joel Leslie sucks. He was the worst possible narrator they could have picked. This book was not made for “uppercut British snob”. It was made for witty acerbic banter interspersed with sarcasm and fun. His German accent sounds more like a cross between Russian and French and he constantly mispronounced German words, places, and phrases. A couple DuoLingo lessons would have fixed that. Worse yet was his practically offensive Korean “accent” and the way he absolutely butchered the beauty that is the Korean language. It is truly cringe worthy.
His voice pacing is practically nonexistent and the man wouldn’t know how to deliver a sarcastic line if it approached him with a bat. Nor can he pace a story, everything is either rushed or stupidly slow.
5 stars for the Story
-1 star for the narration