Beauty Queens

by Libba Bray

[Stephanie]

This was my first go with an audiobook. I've been very apprehensive towards audiobooks for a while, mostly because I would get flashbacks from high school when teachers would just pop in an audiobook, and we would have to follow along with the book. It was boring, but at least I didn't have to go through all the stress of getting called on to read out loud. Also, I felt like it wasn't really reading.

But! I'm so glad I choose Beauty Queens as my first audiobook, because I loved it. I'm usually by myself at my other part time job, so I figured listening to an audiobook would help pass the time. It definitely helped, and I'm sad that I just now got into audiobooks, because now I won't be by myself at work and can't listen to them anymore.

I loved Libba Bray's narration. I loved all her accents for all the different characters, it really helped keep all the characters straight, since there were quite a few of them. I also loved all the little fun stuff thrown in there, like how the footnotes were handled and the commercial breaks. None of the audiobooks from high school were this fun, that's for sure.

About the story, I was kind of unsure of this book. I LOVED Libba Bray's A Great and Terrible Beauty series, but this book seemed a little out there and completely different, which it is, but I really liked it! I was laughing out loud at some parts, and I loved all the girl power going on. Libba Bray was definitely trying to get a message across with this book, and I think she did an awesome job with it.

I definitely recommend this audiobook to people who want to try out audiobooks for the first time. It's a lot of fun, with a great story. Now I want to buy a physical copy for my shelf.