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Could not finish

Revisado: 09-16-24

Normally, I like any Dean Koontz’s book, however, I could not get into this one. I had to stop listening to it after the third or fourth chapter. I may pick it up and try again, but it is definitely not entertaining to me.

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I tried but just couldn’t get into the book

Revisado: 08-27-23

The first part of the book was pretty good. Once the author switched over to the second part of the book that involves the surgeons and Scotland and England, I just couldn’t make that leap. I couldn’t connect the two parts of the story. For all I know, there are three parts, or even four parts to the story but once I couldn’t get the first two parts connected, I was done. So I finally gave up trying to concentrate enough to get through it. I thought the narration, ie, the accents, and inflections etc. were very good. I just couldn’t handle the story as a whole.

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Poor choice of narrator

Revisado: 05-16-23

Overall the book was quite good. However, the narrator that portrayed Rita, the detective, sounded like a man. And it took me several chapters to figure out that it was a woman narrating it. I finally determined that it was a woman by looking at the description of the book. Her voice was very distracting. I would have preferred that the voice was more feminine and less masculine.

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Intolerable

Revisado: 01-07-22

I’ve listened to many books some were difficult to listen to but this is probably one of the worst. It is so extremely boring. I tried to listen to it and I got through the first five or six chapters I think. But I’m done with it.

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Childress and poorly written

Revisado: 08-07-20

Probably one of the the worst books I’ve ever listened to. Shallow, poor diction and a predictable ending . I certainly will not download the rest of the series, free or not. I expected more from Catherine Coulter.

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Too much spanking

Revisado: 12-05-19

What can I say? Enough with the spanking. Done in good taste, spanking can be erotic but when the novel is nothing but spanking it becomes tedious and boring.

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Disappointed

Revisado: 01-13-17

I enjoyed hearing Kiernan's side of the story pre-Kate. However I do think that since his Irish accent was used by his adult character in the first book in the series it should have been used in any subsequent books from there on.

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Good Book but Positively the Wrong Narrator!

Revisado: 06-10-13

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I really enjoyed the first book in this series. In the first book wherein Elena Michaels, a werewolf, had left her pack and has been successfully living away from her pack, albeit at times inconveniently, in the big city of Chicago. She has a job, a boyfriend, and friends, just like a normal young woman should. No one knows her secret but she still has to satisfy her primal needs as a werewolf and this makes it difficult for her to live a normal night life with the man she loves. She sneaks out in the middle of the night to hunt animals but she is always conscious that she might be discovered. She is lured back to her pack by a call from the Alpha male, Jeremy, because of an "emergency", or so he said. Elena didn't believe him but she went anyway. Once there she has to face the one man she never wanted to see again, Clay, a handsome, self-centered, irresponsible, and self-indulgent werewolf. In this book, the second in the series, Elena becomes a much stronger character. As the only living female werewolf she is in a unique position because females do not usually survive the rigors of transformation. She is respected by most but much sought after by others, particularly a group of highly specialized scientists who view her as a valuable "specimen". It is left up to Elena and her fellow werewolves to solve the mystery of disappearing werewolves and witches and to break up a cadre of doctors and scientists with plans to change the face of mankind but they cannot perfect their theories without specimens. Specimens to test their theories on. They begin kidnapping individuals with special powers so they can more or less dissect them to find out what makes them "tick". The book is full of witches, vampires, werewolves, and demons. The story is good, although not as good as the first book, but the narrator was so bad I wanted to turn the book off on multiple occasions and just give it up! Her voice sounded nothing like Elena's should. She made Elena sound like a boy going through puberty. In the first book, the narrator sounded exactly like I thought Elena should sound. Her voice was that of a young woman just entering adulthood but straddling the fence between her teenage years and her young adult years. The narrator's voice and inflection portrayed Elena's emotions so well that her joy and her angst were palpable. Her ambivalent feelings toward Clay seemed real and heartfelt. The narrator made Clay sound like the spoiled and self-indulgent young man he was yet she managed to portray the softer side of Clay as well. She hit the nail on the head with Jeremy, the Alpha male. I highly recommend the first book in the series. If you can get past the narrator's voice in this book, the story line is entertaining and imaginative.

If you’ve listened to books by Kelley Armstrong before, how does this one compare?

This book is okay compared to the first book in the series which was very good

What didn’t you like about Nell Canning’s performance?

Everything. She was a poor choice as a narrator for this book. See full comments above

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

I would probably rent it on DVD but only after I watched the first "book" in the series. If I saw it in the theater I might enjoy it but I would wish I had waited until it came out on DVD. I would expect the first & second books to be the same movie but I doubt it would be a big hit, unless a really good producer, writers and actors take the script on.

Any additional comments?

Please see full review above

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Great Narrator for a very entertaining series

Revisado: 04-22-10

As far as I'm concerned, I could go on and on with the Outlander books but Davina Porter is by far one of the best narrators I have ever had the pleasure of listening to.

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Great Narrator for a very entertaining series

Revisado: 04-22-10

As far as I'm concerned, I could go on and on with the Outlander books but Davina Porter is by far one of the best narrators I have ever had the pleasure of listening to.

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