I'm torn on I Was Told There'd Be a Village. I did get a lot of what I wanted, but I also ended up with some extra that frankly annoyed me.

When Latched Mama was mentioned in the description, I made the mistake of assuming that was just for street cred. It wasn't.
It felt like 35% of this was listening to random tangents about how wonderful Latched Mama was at first (I had my son 2 years ago and can't remember this company. I spent DAYS in bed searching for *the best* products. Do with that what you will), how innocent the author is in the complains filed by employees (wouldn't have even known about the complaints, so it was esp weird to be presented with these claims only to be told why it's inaccurate) or specific to working moms.

Some of that remaining 65% was extremely valuable, validating, informative or all of those things combined. But I'd just warn that you're getting more than you bargained for with this one—and not in a good way.

Specific to the audio, I always love when an author narrates their own book. Melissa is a great example of why that is.
Some of the intonations aren't what I would have anticipated reading the text to myself. The way Melissa is able to interpret her own words just couldn't be matched. As far as I know this is her first narration, which I wouldn't have known just listening. Her words are clear, timing is what you'd hear IRL and her volume stays consistent.

(Thank you bunches to Hachette Audio, Grand Central Publishing and Melissa Wirt for the ALC in exchange for my honest review!)