Kissing Tolstoy

Dear Professor, Volume 1

By: Penny Reid

Narrated by: Fiona Fischer, Jacob Morgan

Now a USA Today best seller.

What do you do when you discover your super-hot blind date from months ago is now your super-hot Russian lit professor? You overthink everything and pray for a swift end to your misery, of course!

Kissing Tolstoy is the first audiobook in the Dear Professor series, is 46,000 words, and it can be listened to as a stand-alone. A shorter version of this story (28,000 words) was entitled Nobody Looks Good in Leather Pants and was available via Penny Reid's newsletter for free over the course of 2017.

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beautiful

I loved reading this story and listening to it was so much more. The narrators tell the story beautifully and I thank them for being the words to life.

Hard to listen to

The story was fine. Not my favorite Penny Reid book, but it was pretty clever and entertaining. That said, it was very difficult to listen to. It sounded like the F. Fischer had gum in her mouth. Both readers were pretty flat and the delivery just didn't suit the characters.

Narration let me down

While I love the topic, flow, banter and writing style, the narration was not the best. His was better than hers. It is distracting when words are mis-pronounced.

Enjoyable word play

I enjoyed this ook and performance. I liked the dialogue between the two characters. Acknowledging the insecure and often crazy ways humans see themselves.

Very nice story

I really enjoyed this noodle. I felt it was well written and different. It held my interest. I kept wanting to read what happened next.