Takedown
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Takedown
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Narrated by:
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Ja'Air Bush
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Troy Duran
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By:
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Evelyn Sola
About this listen
I hold up my hand, and right there, on my left ring finger is a fat, round, and crystal-clear diamond ring.
Mellie
I was not a gambler. No way. I've built an existence free of risk and adventure. From my career to a small life with my closest family. I was not going to do anything to jeopardize my heart. But when my neighbor and number one menace to my safe plans showed up in Vegas, I did what every adventurous (not!) woman would do. I got drunk and married the man.
Adam
What happens in Vegas is supposed to stay in Vegas. Then, I went and married Mellie Dupree. That woman I've been chasing for two years is now my wife. She claims she doesn't remember our wedding, but I was there, and I know she's not telling the truth. Then again, neither am I.
Contains mature themes.
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I have listened to almost all of Evelyn Sola's audiobooks. So far, this story has the most fleshed out main character in Mellie, who is so damn unlikeable in the first half, for rather interesting reasons.
She's judgemental, presumptuous, lies in an attempt to evict someone who's done nothing wrong to her, and lies a lot more and thensome due to denial.
It's frustrating as hell. Once you get to source of it all, it makes for an interesting story. Almost all of her female protagonists are a bit complicated, sometimes set in their ways but that's what I appreciate.
However, Sola's writing always includes a plot strand that could be easily untangled by asking a simple question and using common sense. One could that about a lot of things in life but I find this plot strand in particular to be a bit silly. It's the money question. It got to a point where I wanted to slap her left and right and I wanted to kick Adam in the nuts. Yes, there's a reason why he keeps it close to the chest and it's part of his is past but my word....it got so repetitive.
And that's another stand out in Sola's writing: Repetitiveness. Of dialogue, that turns from callbacks to inside jokes to eye rolling sillyness.
I say all this to add that a lot of the annoyance in the first half, is paying off once Mellie is opened up by the writing. It's just a good old match of patience.
On other hand it rightfully leaves the question, how many male and white characters in general, as well as those with similar storylines? Have been given the grace and patience to have such a story?
Too many. Which is why I appreciate this story, despite all of pointa above.
The side characters are also entertaining. I do wanted to kick some of these side characters and for very good reasons.
Giving this story one's patience leads to a very relatable storyline and characters in the end. It's worth it.
The importance of unlikeable characters, written right.
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The female character is annoying
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