AS MANY NOWS AS I CAN GET

Narrator Annie Q's voice breathes life into the characters of this YA debut. The main character, Scarlett, jumps between events that happen over the course of high school and those that take place on a cross-country road trip during the summer after her freshman year of college. She unfolds her story only as quickly as she is willing to share it, leaving listeners hanging on every word to figure out what might happen next. With the nonlinear plot, it would be easy for listeners to lose track of the narrative thread, but guided by Annie Q's use of inflection and tone to distinguish Scarlett at various points in time, the audience is never questioning where they are in the story or how all the pieces fall together. S.H. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine [Published: NOVEMBER 2019]