Patricia B

super tedious

Revisado: 04-01-23

I think this author is trying to make something that is like Sarah Maas's Court of Thorn and Roses, but it falls very short of that.

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I just couldn't plow through it

Revisado: 04-01-23

The plot was just too tedious. only got to Chapter 2. The setup was predictable and the switch to present day just didn't hook me.

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Simpering female

Revisado: 06-09-19

I love Angle of Repose. So I got the audio book for a road trip and found the narrator's rendition of a Susan's voice really grating. It seemed like he went out of his way to make her sound like a whiner... not at all like how I imagined it when I read the novel. There were times when he "slipped" from the effort and she sounded somewhat normal, but in general she came across like a breathy, helpless airhead. Gah!

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Over-wrought, neurotic character

Revisado: 10-13-18

The book started out on an interesting note, opening with a woman burying her newly wedded husband by hand clandestinely. The story then winds back to the past, and the reader expects the mystery to unfold. Initially, the exposition is well done, as we learn about the couple before they become married, their lives, and what brings them the island where their honeymoon takes place. But from there on, the narration becomes painfully slow and dwells on the minutiae of the woman's interior emotional monologue about trivial aspects of the honeymoon, while irritatingly skipping all parts of the plot that are potentially interesting. For example, there must have been at least two paragraphs given over to describing the bubbles in the champagne that they were drinking, and when they went scuba diving to reach a wreck, there was a huge amount of detail about the husband describing all of the different sharks that might be in the water to his wife while she reflects in tiresome detail each time her breath caught at mention of yet another shark type, and how she had to talk herself off from the edge of panic after each mention. FINALLY after suffering through all of that description, you never learn if they actually reached the wreck! It just skips forward to the event on the return home. This style of narration continues along all the way through what I suppose is the climax of the book or at least key part of the plot, but I don't think I can listen to any more of it because I am so sick of hearing descriptions of the main character's near panic at every darn twist in the plot, from discovering what is in the bag that they took from the ocean, to seeing the plane at the bottom of the ocean. By this point, the author's attempt to create a certain type of character becomes too heavy-handed and interrupts the flow of the story.

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Depressed

Revisado: 09-22-17

This is my state of mind every time I finish one of Thea Harrison's books. Sophie Eastlake is also a brilliant reader.

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Struggled to finish

Revisado: 11-07-15

I've read the 2 previous Julie Garwood novels in this series, which were delightful. The characters in this novel, unfortunately, were truly unlikeable, particularly Colin. it wasn't so much his possessiveness and bossy nature, but his repeatedly hurtful and inconsiderate actions toward the princess. I ended up skipping ahead and catching the end, because I truly disliked Colin.

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