Synopsis:
The Glitch is the #1 best selling audiobook that features narration from Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sam Claflin.
Five Years Earlier
Henry Dunne knows three things: that agreeing to host this raucous house party was a terrible idea, that he absolutely cannot show up to his nursing shift tomorrow with a hangover, and that the beautiful redhead in the corner will be sleeping in his bed tonight.
But what he doesn’t know is that Grace Monroe, the ambitious and fiercely independent chef catering this party, is about to walk a tray of cream cheese appetisers straight into his chest and turn his world upside down. Now, the work-a-holic with a reputation for keeping things casual is planning romantic dates and meeting the family. Utterly smitten, Henry now knows something else: that Grace is the one and that absolutely nothing could come between them…
Present Day
Grace Monroe is one day away from thirty, her restaurant has just been declared bankrupt, her beloved grandmother has been rushed to hospital, and she’s now sobbing in a packed train station. The only way life could get worse is having Henry Dunne – the man who showed her what true love and heartbreak feels like – see her like this.
And there he is, wordlessly watching her from the opposite escalator.
A bottle of wine and an erratic wish later, Grace wakes up to one hell of a life glitch: it’s five years earlier, her twenty-fifth birthday, and she’s got picture-perfect memory of the missing years. Grace’s plan is clear: save her doomed career and prevent the worst heartache she’s ever known. All she needs to do is stop history repeating…
Easy, right?
Review:
I enjoyed my first Leeanne Slade audiobook so much (The Rebound), I started a second one (The Glitch) almost instantly after finishing it. Having famous actors narrate your book is a great way to get people interested and I knew I had to listen to this as soon as I saw that Sam Claflin was one of the narrators.
I have a few negatives to talk about so let’s get those out of the way first. This book is definitely too long. I did enjoy the whole thing but a lot of the smaller details and ‘filler’ scenes weren’t needed.
My other negative was how confusing the time warp was. I found it so difficult to discern what was happening in the ‘present but five years ago’ and the actual five years ago that happened in the past. It would have been much easier to follow if Grace’s chapters were just the present and Henry’s the past. I think all of Henry’s were the past but Grace’s were a mix of both at times (unless I’m not remembering correctly).
For the majority of the book you’re supposed to feel sad for Grace because her business failed literally the night before her birthday. However, the further in you get, you realise just how terrible of a person she was. This is a big(ish) spoiler, but she accepted the money that Henry saved since he was a teen (to buy a house) for her business and she lost all of it. She also lied about where she got the initial money to set it up and flirted with someone else to “help her business”. I’m glad the time warp allowed her to change her past and realise just how horrible she was to those around her, but god were there chapters hard to get through. You spend most of the book thinking Henry did something to ruin their relationship but it was her all along.
Henry did have his flaws also but I don’t want to make too much of this review negative as I did actually enjoy The Glitch.
Magic realism isn’t something you come across often in romance books so I thought the concept for this was great. The execution left a little to be desired but without giving too much away, the ending makes you view the entire book in a completely different way.
The narration of The Glitch was by far the best part of the book. I never knew how badly I needed Sam Claflin to read a romance book to me until now. I should have known that considering Love, Rosie is one of my all time favourite films. Also, how funny that he’s played another character with the last name Dunne.
Anyway, back to the narration. It makes such a difference when you actually find the narration engaging. I usually find descriptive audiobooks harder to follow, but the performance from both narrators had me enraptured.
If you’re a fan of second chance romances, The Glitch is the book for you. It has passion, drama and moments of pure sweetness. I’d recommend you check this out if you have an Audible Plus subscription.
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