The Animators

The beginning of this started so strong, with women animators having just won a big grant to make a second movie after their first received rave feedback. But it went off the rails a couple of different times in the first half, which is about where I'm leaving this. I won't spoil things in case anyone else wants to read this.

But of course, of the two friends and business partners, one of them is “the talent” who is also real messed up (Mel), and the other is insecure about her role in the partnership and is always cleaning up the messes (Sharon). But then something bad happens to Sharon that causes Mel to kind of sort of clean up her act? But then Mel finds out that Sharon's childhood was just as messed up as Mel's (and Mel's was the impetus for their hit movie), and so Mel decides Sharon's childhood should be the focus of their next movie, and and and and ... there was just SO MANY THINGS HAPPENING. And I didn't care. And there were still SEVEN HOURS left in the book. I didn't want to have to listen to this for seven more hours!

I did look up spoilers about what happens in the rest of the story, and I didn't feel any compulsion to continue, so I returned the audiobook to the library. The narrator has a very scratchy voice.