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Had to return it

Revisado: 12-17-23

Note: If your female narrator only has one male voice in them, you need another narrator. Had to return this one unfortunately. I loved Prep when I read it as a kid and again when I got older, but this one just wasn't for me. I would also love for someone to clarify if they were saying "Danny Horse Drool" or "Danny Horsed Rule" over and over about 45 times during the book. There's only so many times someone can hear the words "horse drool" before they turn it off.

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Simple and lacking depth with a narrow-minded view

Revisado: 06-18-23

Title says it all. Most of the "quit lit" memoirs I've read are very raw and honest, whereas this read like a high school short story. It was a very surface level account of a privileged white woman's experience with alcohol use disorder. I like to support anyone who's found their way to sobriety and for that reason was committed to seeing it through. That is right up until the author began criticizing others who critique 12-step programs. It was then I realized the author is the exact type of narrow-minded person who kept me running away from 12-step meetings after trying them over and over until I found one of the many better alternatives that are now widely offered in the sober community.

I ended up returning this when I had about 2 hours left because I just couldn't stomach it at that point. If you're interested in listening to someone talk about how she found her sense of clothing style after getting sober (not hyperbole - this is actually one of the chapters,) dive in, but it was not for me.

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One GLARING problem.

Revisado: 03-15-23

If there is blunt force trauma to the back of a head, no autopsy specialist on the planet would rule it a suicide EVEN IF the person had appeared to slit their wrists. That alone would have changed the entire trajectory of the story.

Com'on... ruined the whole book for me.

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This was barely a story, much less a compelling

Revisado: 12-10-20

I’m honestly at a loss for words after suffering through this whole thing. There was no real story or climax or intrigue. It was like the notebook of an author putting together ideas for a novel that never gets written.

Save your credit and time. Do not bother.

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Long and drawn out with no payoff

Revisado: 05-14-18

This book was really tough to get through and I hoped that maybe there would be an unexpected twist at the end to pay off all the tedious listening, but the ending was as predictable and blase as the rest of the book.

Don't waste your time or credit.

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Don't waste your time.

Revisado: 01-15-18

Hours of boring backstory that leads up to a lackluster "twist." Not worth the credit or time it took to get through it.

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I have no idea why anyone likes this book.

Revisado: 11-27-17

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how this book has so many good reviews. It was barely a story, much less something I would call a book.

The plot and "twist" were predictable from the start. The main character hinting at a personal issue nobody cares about throughout the entire book got tiresome fast. The ending was the equivalent of slapping lipstick on a pig. And the narrator often forgot to change her voice for characters so you didn't know who was actually speaking.

I've really enjoyed Karin Slaughter books in the past and was excited to dive into her latest work, but this felt like a rushed job and poor excuse for an actual novel.

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Interesting story with annoying narration

Revisado: 11-15-16

I thought this story was interesting and didn't even mind the switching between "then" and "now," which is usually a bit tiresome, but worked for this particular piece. Usually I find myself favoring one time period or the other, but both were equally interesting.

I thought the book was overall too long and could have been shortened significantly perhaps by not including 17 adjectives to explain every single noun. Why do authors do this?

As far as the narration went, I thought her voicing of male characters ended up sounding like muppets, but I get that it's hard to do. It could have been improved by including a male narrator to take on those roles, but it's not a deal breaker here.

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Good story, too bad the performance killed it

Revisado: 07-06-16

Overall I really liked this story, but found myself dreading every time they jumped back to the male narrator. His voice was WAY too old for an 18-yr old and the way he over emphasized EVERY. SINGLE. WORD. became extremely tiresome after about 5 minutes. I will say he didn't have a lot of help when it came to the writing, which was overly verbose. Not every thing a person sees or feels needs to be explained with a metaphor.

The story wrapped up nicely, so had I actually read the book rather than listened I think I would have enjoyed it a heck of a lot more. Save this one for a trip to the library, friends.

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So Terrible

Revisado: 06-01-16

Don't even waste your time reading this review. The book is that bad.

Here are my extra words to meet the minimum.

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