D Michaels

You must love battle scenes and what’s up with the music???

Revisado: 05-28-19

I I love Bernard Cornwell books and this is no exception though, due to the subject of the book, it’s nearly entirely all battle scenes. Well done battle scenes.

What I really hope is that the appropriate people see this review and PLEASE reconsider adding music to audiobooks. This was loud. It was not at all necessary. It added NOTHING to the book. Worst of all, every time the music came up, I was shoved jarringly out of the head space I’d been in. So distracting!!!

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Read it! Laugh! Cry a little bit (not much).

Revisado: 04-07-19

Have you ever watched Guy’s Grocery Games on The Food Network? Sometimes the contestants play a game where they spin an arrow on a few boards to select ingredients. One is a protein board. Perhaps another is fruits. Yet a third might be unusual ingredients. And the contestants must make the best dish they can out of, say, lamb with nopales and durian fruit.

I thought of this game repeatedly while listening to The Others with it’s unlikely combo of aliens, fundamentalist Mormons, and the ragtag band assisting the PI, including a sassy mother figure (my dream movie role) and a gun-toting Republican preacher.

I hesitated to use this reality TV game show analogy because it may make you think that the resulting story may stand as likely a chance of turning out well as a dish concocted from ingredients that seem to stand no chance of melding together well. At the risk of taking the metaphor completely too far, I think it’s all dependent on the chef or author. And in Jeremy Robinson’s hands, it’s WONDERFUL!

At turns hilarious and tragic and suspenseful, 👏🏽 I 👏🏽 could 👏🏽 not 👏🏽 recommend 👏🏽 this 👏🏽 book 👏🏽 more. I started it yesterday morning and plowed through it because I was so delighted with it, right up to the satisfying conclusion. And now I’m off to find my next read by this author!

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Probably a much better book than audiobook

Revisado: 03-22-19

Ohhh, this was depressing. Informative and interesting. Motivating and anger-inducing. And, oh so, depressing. I encourage anyone who lives as a woman to read this. Honestly, can there be a more clear indication that being transgender is a real thing? Because it can only be truly feeling the divine feminine inside you to push you to experience your true lives in the gender that has been treated like we have been for millennia. I did NOT like the narrators (also the authors). A case of not being as funny as they think they are.

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Misgenred, IMO

Revisado: 03-22-19

Classified as a thriller/suspense. Though there is a mystery involved and although I did not guess correctly whodunit, overall it read much more like a family drama. And if I’d wanted a book with quarrelsome family members, illnesses and tragedies, I would have selected a different book altogether. It was very well written family drama, but it was family drama.

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Interesting

Revisado: 03-22-19

A short story about the school days of Madame Curie. Before she was either a “Madame” or a “Curie,” but just Marie Sklodowska. Interesting.

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You still here?

Revisado: 03-22-19

Any one of the books in this trilogy is two or three times the length of a regular book. I’m not sure if I’d recommend to others. They are a VERY SPECIFIC take inside the post-apocalypse genre. Part “Dracula” and part modern scientific experiment gone massively wrong. If that sounds like your thing and you have the time to give to read these, then yes, read on. (I understand a TV series is out there based on the first book but couldn’t say how they compare.)

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Hello

Revisado: 03-22-19

Any one of the books in this trilogy is two or three times the length of a regular book. I’m not sure if I’d recommend to others. They are a VERY SPECIFIC take inside the post-apocalypse genre. Part “Dracula” and part modern scientific experiment gone massively wrong. If that sounds like your thing and you have the time to give to read these, then yes, read on. (I understand a TV series is out there based on the first book but couldn’t say how they compare.)

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Saying goodbye

Revisado: 03-22-19

Any one of the books in this trilogy is two or three times the length of a regular book. I’m not sure if I’d recommend to others. They are a VERY SPECIFIC take inside the post-apocalypse genre. Part “Dracula” and part modern scientific experiment gone massively wrong. If that sounds like your thing and you have the time to give to read these, then yes, read on. (I understand a TV series is out there based on the first book but couldn’t say how they compare.)

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Sparkling and sorrowful

Revisado: 03-22-19

A wonderful book! From her birth to death I felt like I was along for the ride of her life and got to peek in on the fancy balls and sorrows, everyday life and occasional scandals. Definitely recommend.

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Well...now I’m scared.

Revisado: 03-22-19

“The Art of the Steal” is a near terrifying insight into how to recognize and avoid cons and scams. Or, as even the author says, pull them off. He knows some people will use this book as a DIY con game manual. It’s that good. I’m now debating listening to his third book “Stealing Your Life,” as I’m sure it’s bound to frighten me more. But also educate me. I now know there are certain steps I need to take on behalf of my mom and I for protection because this kind of crime is rampant and only growing.

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