Tracey B.

Love Eskins but not my favorite

Revisado: 10-16-23

I’m a huge fan of Allen Eskins and had high hopes for it after its prequel The Heavens May Fall. But it fell a little short for me. The religious speak was a bit much and there were too many characters to keep track of in that part of the plot. It also seems like the custody part was wrapped up too quickly at the end. It won’t stop be from reading him. It just wasn’t my favorite.

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Slow and confusing

Revisado: 08-18-23

I slumbered through the first part with Elena and Nicholas. Was happy to then hear it change to Amelia’s story but it was very repetitive. What I hated most in listening to this book was I never knew what character I was listening to, especially at chapter beginnings as well as the switching from 1st person to 3rd person. A simple verbal name at the beginning of each chapter would have been a huge help to me knowing who I was listening to. And adding the ghost element was a big turnoff for me.

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Interesting yet a little slow

Revisado: 07-25-23

While I admire the research that obviously went into this book, I felt it moved a little too slow. I enjoyed the Jarret and Lexington relationship and storyline but not so much the modern voices. Loved People of The Book and was hoping this would be right up there with that level of writing but it just fell a little short for me.

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Too many loose ends

Revisado: 10-09-22

I’m clearly in the minority here. Many loose ends left me dissatisfied, as well as lack of depth to most characters. I also felt some occurrences were unrealistic. Story dragged on and on and I stuck with it hoping for some action, some feeling, some connection but never got it.

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Kept waiting for this book to excite me. Never happened.

Revisado: 05-17-21

I listened on Audible and wish I could get those hours back. I know I’m in the minority here, but this book was a snooze. After the first couple of chapters sucked me in, I kept waiting for it to pick up and it never did. I contemplated abandoning it but don’t like to do so once I’m so far in. I usually love these southern stories but had a hard time connecting with the characters in this one. This is one I wish I abandoned 8 hours earlier.

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Expected more out of this book

Revisado: 02-05-21

Spoiler alert. I went into this book eager and with high hopes given the reviews. But it fell flat for me. The only character I felt a connection to was Jude and I found myself liking hers and Reese’s story the most. Though I do feel Reese’s transgender story was skimmed over and could have been much more compelling. Kennedy felt like such a caricature of a blond, rebellious, rich LA teen and was not likable nor was her mother the further into the book I read. The end felt so rushed and left me very frustrated. There was no mention of Stellas husband Blake toward the end at all and I found it unrealistic that Kennedy would not have divulged the truth to him about Stella’s secret. Stella just flies back to LA with no consequences for what she did to her family, her mother, her twin. Desiree picks up and moves to Texas and the twins never contact each other again. Unrealistic and left me frustrated.

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Waste of two hours

Revisado: 07-18-20

The only part of this that I mildly enjoyed was the reading of his poem to the professor and how it was received by the prof. I kept cringing at how involved the dad got on his sons behalf. That could never happen today. I couldn’t stand the narration and almost stopped listening many times because of it. I was just hoping the story went somewhere and sadly it did not.

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Unrealistic storyline, bland characters

Revisado: 05-16-20

While I loved Moriarty’s book What Alice Forgot, this book to me was a dud. I only stuck with it because I was hoping (praying) for some excitement, a twist, something. I feel the storyline was not believable and none of the characters grabbed my interest at all. They were all rather bland and had no depth whatsoever. Also feel there should have been some segue in the performance to differentiate the new chapters so I would know if it was Ellen or Saskia who was speaking. In some cases it wasn’t clear until a couple sentences in who was speaking. I wish I abandoned this book within the first hour.

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Had cuts

Revisado: 08-31-15

The audio book skipped a lot of paragraphs in the actual book so if you want to read along, it's very difficult

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