A review by jenbsbooks
Magical Midlife Madness by K.F. Breene

2.25

Heard about this in a FB book group,  rave review (especially for the full cast audio). It sounded so familiar, one I had tried but DNF, but that was a different one [book:Accidental Mystic|59961135] ... this almost ended up a DNF for me too. Maybe I don't care for the theme? I did really like The Accidental Alchemist and The Keeper of Enchanted Rooms (although the sequels of the latter didn't do it for me, have yet to try the sequels of the former), and they both have some similar feel. 

This had the Kindle copy in KU, and the audio (full cast) on Hoopla (and some Libby, although not my local library). While it was touted as Graphic Audio, and it did have a full cast, there was still the background narration of regular text (not just dialog). The Table of Contents from the Kindle copy, 32 chapters, did not line up with the Hoopla version (just six sections) so this made it difficult to switch between formats. 

1st person/past tense.

This actually Did really remind me of The Accidental Mystic, in that pretty much from the start, I just knew I wasn't really going to like this. I got further, and probably should have gone ahead and DNF this one too.  It was just too silly and while paranormal (were/shifters, vampires, etc) isn't an issue, this set up didn't work for me. Some of the lines felt so hokey. I'd provide examples, but as mentioned above, when listening, I did know where I was in the Kindle copy, because the "chapters" didn't line up from audio to text. I just remember rolling my eyes and thinking "really, uggg" 

1 proFanity (I figure, go with it and use a few, or keep it "clean" and don't use any).  There was some slight sexual stuff, I think, I was just pushing through as I didn't have my next book queued up.  When I think that someone LOVED this, and it does have high ratings ... I guess it just goes to show "different strokes for different folks" ...