His nervousness and verbal diarrhea was spot on. Glen Lloyd captured the heart and essence of Jordan. He was that good, not flawless but nothing that labelled him as a novice either. Upside Down might be Lloyd’s first foray into audiobook narration, but if I hadn’t looked that fact up I wouldn’t have known it from listening to this book. It made me realise how much I’d missed when listening to books set in Australia but narrated by non-native Aussie speakers. And doing it on a bus ride with the Soup Crew cheering made it much more special and fun. I loved the sweetness, the slow-burn or rather the building of a relationship. A meeting that had him confront some truths and realise that maybe one more label wasn’t the end of the world. His best friend Merry didn’t agree with him and dragged him to a support group for asexuals. He was perfectly content with his life as a librarian, his two best friends and to stare and daydream about Headphones Guy on the bus. But he had enough labels already and didn’t want to add a new one to the collection. One he wished desperately not to fit, but one that explained so much about himself and all his past relationship failures asexual. And some have the power to change our world. No matter how much we try we can never run away from them, outrun them. Many are chosen for us, some are chosen by us. Some labels make us fit in, other set us apart.
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