Audiobook Review: The Divorce by Freida McFadden
The Divorce
Author: Freida McFadden
Narrators:
January LaVoy
Edoardo Ballerini
Marin Ireland
Published: May 26, 2026
Audiobook: 8 hours 1 minute
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: May 28- June 1, 2026
Jessica’s Rating: 3.5 stars
Book Description:
What is a happily ever after really worth?
Naomi was living the quintessential love story. Boy meets girl. They fall in love, get married, buy a dream house, start a family…
Then—he kicks her out, hires the city’s best divorce lawyers, drains their accounts, and takes up with a 20-something.
It’s a brutal end to the story. Naomi should accept defeat: move into a dingy apartment, get back into the workforce, and piece together the shattered remains of her life.
Except, why should she?
Instead, Naomi fixates on her husband’s new girlfriend. What begins as cynical curiosity soon twists into obsession—and then into something far darker. As Naomi uncovers secrets she never imagined, she realizes her own life may be in danger.
But if it keeps her perfect family intact, isn’t it worth it?
Jessica’s Review:
This is the newest by McFadden and it also has some great narrators! In the beginning third of the novel I wondered if I had talked with McFadden about MY divorce as there were some similarities: My middle name is Naomi, and Naomi’s husband did some things similar to my ex-husband. BUT… I can say that my ending is not like this novel’s ending! I did not go in the direction that Naomi did: Once I realized that there was no stopping that my marriage was over, my lawyer had it filed at the end of May in 2024 and it was finalized Mid-July 2024.
With the initial similarities I found the book a bit addicting, I did not want to stop reading. At times I identified with Naomi. But then Naomi spirals into an obsession! I was invested in what was going to happen. But a few of the twists I had figured out and the biggest thing that resulted in The Divorce getting a 3.5-star review was that the final twist was not ‘earth- shattering’ for me. It was more if a “Oh, ok” reaction to the final twist.
The three narrators are fabulous! I have listened to all of them narrator novels before and they are all ones I look out for. If McFadden keeps having these very talented narrators narrating her novels, I will definitely be listening to them!
Audiobook Review: Dear Debbie by Freida McFadden
Dear Debbie
Author: Freida McFadden
Narrators:
Julia Whelan
January LaVoy
Scott Brick
Published: January 27, 2026
Audiobook: 7 hours 40 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: June 4-9, 2026
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars
Book Description:
Sometimes, enough is enough…
Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years, she has compiled all of her best advice into her column, Dear Debbie, where the wives of New England come for sympathy and neighborly advice. Through her work, Debbie has heard from countless women who are ignored, belittled, or even abused by their husbands. And Debbie does her best to guide them in the right direction.
Or at least, she did.
These days, Debbie’s life seems to be spiraling out of control. She just lost her job. Something strange is happening with her teenage daughters. And her husband is keeping secrets, according to the tracking app she installed on his phone. Now, Debbie’s done being the bigger person. She’s done being reasonable and practical. It’s time to take her own advice.
And now it’s time for payback against all the people in her life who deserve it the most.
Jessica’s Review:
This was a fun read with Debbie, who is a very unhinged woman! Dear Debbie is a novel about karma and revenge with some very entertaining dark humor!
Pretty much everyone in Debbie’s family has something going on and Debbie has had it with everything: She decides to take everything into her own hands! This is a bit of a revenge fantasy, can you imagine one person doing all this? It’s a fun ride and I looked forward to seeing what was going to happen next. Just when you think nothing else can happen, then something else does!
You don’t want to get on Debbie’s bad side or who knows what will happen next! I do like how everything came in full circle.
We have two of my favorite narrators: January LaVoy and Julia Whelan! When I found out they narrated I knew I was going to listen to this audiobook! They and additional narrator Scott Brick helped to make this story.
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Book Review: 14 Nights in February
14 Nights in February
Authors:
KH Johnakin
Ben Farthing
Published: January 25, 2026
Kindle: 206 pages
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Read: February 24- March 24, 2026
Jessica’s Rating: 2 stars
Book Description:
14 chapters. 14 nights. 1 terrifying love story.
Years ago, a ghost hunt shattered Elizabeth’s life and took away the man she loved.
Now, she’s put her past behind her.
But then her old partner calls to ask a favor. His brother, Fitz, is insistent on documenting the strange activity at the Route 14 Motel. Elizabeth reluctantly agrees to help him.
The motel has a reputation: Each February, one room becomes active per night…
Fourteen rooms. Fourteen nights.
All leading to Valentine’s Day.
The hauntings are very real—restless spirits trapped in unfinished stories. Elizabeth and Fitz decide to help each ghost move on, one room at a time.
But a murderer’s ghost still stalks the motel—dangerous, powerful, and furious that someone is freeing his victims.
Amid cursed hotel rooms, vengeful ex-lovers, and rooms with only one bed, Elizabeth and Fitz will have to decide how much they’re willing to risk for love.
14 Nights in February is a horror/romcom designed to be read one chapter per day, from February 1st through Valentine’s Day—written by two authors living their own real-life love story, Ben Farthing and KH Johnakin.
Jessica’s Review:
14 Nights in February had an appealing premise and it is also an ‘advent’ book: Read a chapter a day from February 1- February 14th in time for Valentine’s Day. I enjoyed Farthing’s advent book for Halloween, The 31st Trick or Treater, so I was looking forward to this one. I wanted to see how a horror advent book for Valentine’s was going to go. We have fourteen chapters with a haunted hotel room and ghost in each: It sounds great! Knowing the co-author KH Johnakin is also his wife, I was thinking we were in for some horror and maybe some romance added in. After all, you are supposed to read it for Valentine’s Day.
I did not get it started until after Valentine’s Day, and was hoping to read a chapter a day as the authors intended, but time-wise I was not able to. The story also just did not work for me: I wasn’t intrigued. I did finish it but maybe should have just DNF’d it. For me the best part was the epilogue.
I think it might have just been the wring time for me to read the book and might at some point in the future give it another try. Just not anytime soon.
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