This queer romance filled with nostalgia and longing is the perfect summer listen.
Twenty years ago, Annie, Lola, Vicky, and Dylan starred in a community theater performance that brought acclaim to their hometown. When their mentor reaches out for help saving the theater, they reluctantly agree to a one-night revival. While the story’s pace is slow at times, the quartet of Patti Murin, Elena Rey, Jen Zhao, and Kristen Sieh as the main characters shines, especially Murin’s narration of a nervous Annie and Sieh’s laid-back, nonchalant portrayal of Dylan. There’s magic in reconnecting with first loves, and the four friends find themselves pulled right back to their teenage years. Clark charmingly reads her author’s note at the end, sharing her own community theater experiences.
This queer romance filled with nostalgia and longing is the perfect summer listen.Pub Date: June 16, 2026
Duration: 13 hrs, 18 mins
DD ISBN: 9798217278138
Publisher: Random House Audio
Review Posted Online: July 14, 2026
After her divorce, Roberta Jewett, with her three daughters, returns to Camden, Maine, to start a new life. Such an independent move in 1916 brings difficulties with her mother, her in-laws and the townspeople. Dukes's performance, while skillful, sometimes suffer in scenes of emotional content. His pace slows, and his reading acquires the peculiar emphasis of someone trying to get instructions across to a non-English-speaking person. The effect is disturbingly laughable. When he resumes his normal pace, the story revives and personalities emerge again, but the awkwardness remains as an odd interruption to Spencer's drama of pain and love, dispelling Dukes's carefully constructed characterizations.
Pub Date: N/A
Duration: 3 hrs
Publisher: Dove
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
A young Southern woman marries into an aristocratic Boston family and spends her summers at a vacation community on the Maine coast. Heavy-handed abridgment reduces this novel to an outline which denies the listener any character development. Judith Ivey offers stereotypical dialects which are discordant to a New Englander's ear. In her interpretation the Down East Mainers speak like thugs in raspy voices. Her presentation of a Boston accent is phonetically erratic and also spoken in gruff tones. The color and flavor of Maine are missing from this tasteless rendition.
Pub Date: N/A
Duration: 3 hrs
Publisher: Harper Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
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