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Brilliant, fascinating story

Revisado: 07-11-24

A must read. You’ll finish it quickly. I absolutely loved it, just wish it were longer.

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Wow! You won’t stop until you’re finished

Revisado: 03-21-24

Absolutely incredible. I feel like I was living under a rock having known almost nothing about this story until reading (listening to)) this book. This may be in the top five for me. It had me from page one and I found myself driving in circles just to keep listening in the car. The author is a genius. It’s beautifully written. So much more than a detailed analysis of this story. He spent an incredible amount of time and energy to really know this story and tell it as if here were there, from every characters point of view. The reading was perfect. Can’t wait to share with others.

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Can’t keep politics out, waste of a book. Returned

Revisado: 09-17-23

We are suffering from the loss of our 4 year old daughter recently. I really needed this book. This book was actually somewhat helpful and when grieving, any help is welcome. But Colin here couldn’t keep his strong opinions to himself and politics out of it so with about 2.5 hours remaining, I had to turn it off and am now returning it.

Colins story about the loss of his 2 children is heart wrenching. He is a smart guy who was able to gather a lot of helpful grieving tips and weave them into his story. It was hard to listen to sometimes when it was just Hart & Ruby, Hart & Ruby, Hart & Ruby. Really more than anything else, this is a tribute to them, for him. I believe he wrote this for himself primarily as his ego is rather large. I couldn’t agree with or stand hearing him talk about the selfish actions he took while grieving, how insignificant everyone else it the worlds problems are. In his grief spiel he tells people that he doesn’t care to hear their problems and I don’t think that’s right. Going through what I’m going through, I know that guiding people with a grief spiel is helpful to them and you but it’s never only always about you. Maybe for the first couple of weeks after a tragic loss but come on. This guy took meals from family and friends for 3 months! Crazy. He talks poorly about a school that wouldn’t allow him to do some sort of annual ritual in his children’s name. That is so wrong. He has like 100 rituals which is crazy in it’s own right but then to call out a school for not allowing him to do his 101th ritual there is wrong and speaks volumes to how selfish he really is. He talks about how they just needed a change for Christmas so they went to travel in Italy. Oh how nice for you to be able to do this. Then later, where I couldn’t do it anymore, he talks about white privilege and starts to lecture you.

This is not what you need if you are grieving. This is not a book I would recommend. Find help from someone who’s actually publishing a book to help you, not from this guy who believes his world is the only world. What a waste of a book.

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Slow start but fantastic book overall

Revisado: 03-02-23

This is the first book I’ve listened to (or read for that matter) from this author. At first I wasn’t sold, even downloaded another audio book but once I finished that, I came back to this and was hooked right away. Well written and very engaging. Loved it and will be looking for another book from the author soon.

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Halfway original story but predictable

Revisado: 02-24-23

I was intrigued by this story. It was fairly original but sadly also easily predicable and admittedly I’m not often the first one to “get it”.

The main narrator was just simply awful. The voices, particularly the female ones were unbearable. How they didn’t find someone else shortly after beginning is beyond me. The second narrator, the boy, was actually quite good. A nice relief from the main narrator.

Aside from it being a fairly decent story, the ending was lackluster and overall the writing was simple and not impressive.

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Another brilliant story with an incredible narrator

Revisado: 02-21-23

There’s nothing better than a sci fi novel by the great Andy Weir. While this isn’t his best work ever it’s still better than most and made that much better by the narrator. She was incredible and really REALLY made it that much better.

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Worth a few hours if included

Revisado: 02-08-23

It wasn’t bad by any means but certainly nothing to rave about. Nice short little story.

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Don’t waste your time

Revisado: 10-27-22

It started off as a beautiful story. The writing is first class and the performance was top notch but then came the story as it started to develop. Overall a very boring go nowhere story except, wait for it, the motivation behind the book becomes apparent. It wasn’t to tell a beautiful story, it was to share the authors feelings about recital injustice. While much of what she says in her bleeding heart speech after the book is over may be true. If this isn’t what you’re looking for don’t waste your time. It’s far from a compelling novel. If you want to listen to a story driven by political ideals and have the authors liberal viewpoints shoved down your throat, enjoy.

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So many ideas, couldn’t figure till the end

Revisado: 04-11-22

This one had me going. Not just a brilliant story but how it was told. Performer had a nice voice but guys voices were a bit awkward. Other than that, one of the best thrillers I’ve read

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Just never went anywhere

Revisado: 04-05-22

Perhaps it’s just me but this book was so confusing and lackluster. I kept waiting and waiting for it to all come together. What a letdown.

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