Whelan also shows an awareness and appreciation of romance tropes that lead to a fun and slightly meta reading experience. Sewanee and Brock have crackling chemistry in their innuendo-laden texts, and there are love scenes as steamy as the ones Sewanee narrates.
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Although there’s plenty of tragedy and angst in Sewanee’s life, there’s also a lot of humor (the story opens with a laugh-out-loud scene involving a particularly racy romance novel being played at full volume to unsuspecting airplane passengers). Can she be brave enough to follow her dreams, even if it means risking failure? And do her old dreams even fit into her new life? Whelan, a celebrated audiobook narrator and actress herself (as well as the author of a previous novel, My Oxford Year, 2018), brings an incredible amount of realism to her descriptions of Sewanee’s career. But Sewanee quickly learns that showing vulnerability in real life is harder than performing it. As Sewanee begins working with Brock, trading texts and emails, they forge a connection that goes beyond the book. She’ll be performing the book with Brock McNight, a narrator who’s as sexy as he is secretive-people may know his voice, but they’ve never seen the man behind it. But when she gets an offer to narrate a posthumous book from a romance novelist she once worked with, she agrees-only because she needs the money to help pay for her grandmother’s care. After being disappointed by real life one too many times, she doesn’t believe in happily-ever-afters. Despite that one out-of-character night, Sewanee isn’t a romantic-that’s why she now says no to narrating romance novels, despite starting her career with them. Since Sewanee’s accident, everything about her life is orderly and planned…until she attends a book convention and ends up spending a romantic night with a stranger. When Sewanee isn’t working, she visits her former actress grandmother in an assisted living facility. Now Sewanee narrates audiobooks, using all the talent and passion she once showed onscreen to bring the pages of books to life.
But before her career could take off, an accident caused her to lose an eye and derailed her path to stardom. Sewanee Chester grew up dreaming of being an actress, and for a short while, she made that dream a reality.
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To listen to the whole archive of Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine, subscribe and listen on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or wherever else you find your favorite podcasts.An audiobook narrator and former actress gets more than she bargained for when she performs a book with the audiobook world’s sexiest and most mysterious voice. Intricacies of audiobook narration are balanced with palpable emotion voiced in an impressive range, including swoony love interests, gossiping grandmothers, and more. She and her secretive male narrator connect over emails and texts, but when their identities are revealed, everything is questioned. Now well-loved for her audiobook narrations under her real name, she’s called upon to co-narrate a final work from a favorite romance author under her pseudonym. Sewanee grew up longing to act, but a tragic accident sends her life down a different past. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Emily Connelly talk about the fun of listening to Julia narrate her own work. In Thank You for Listening, author and Golden Voice narrator Julia Whelan tells the story of Sewanee, an actress turned audiobook narrator. We keep our daily episodes short and sweet, with audiobook clips to give you a sample of our featured listens. Every Monday through Friday, AudioFile’s editors recommend the best in audiobook listening.
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