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Terrible narrator!

Revisado: 04-23-23

High pitched squeaky annoying voice for female characters. especially for grace. worst in the entire 23 books!

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Disappointment!

Revisado: 09-19-22

Self indulgent nonsense. Couldn't even finish it. Bring back real stories and real characters. Waste of money.

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Fantastic environmental thriller w wow storyline

Revisado: 11-14-21

The winter environment is as strong a character as the female heroine and the villainous bad guys and gal. A nail biter that keeps you surprised throughout. A revelation about the stalker from A Solitude of Wolves also. I'm listening to it for the 3rd time in a week. Can't wait for Henderson s next great book. They get better and better!

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Royal Story about the Queen of Soul - Aretha

Revisado: 04-03-21

Adenrelo Ojo had a majestic and musical narration for this wonderful biography of Aretha Franklin. It is a rich and detailed story of Aretha's complex family and musical life.

The only negative is the amount of references that included author, book or journal title, and other things that should have been included as footnotes or endnotes. Those references interrupted the story narrative and made it confusing.

It is wonderful to listen to this and then compare it to Genius: Aretha the tv narrative and see how much liberties were taken to romanticize Aretha's life - something the family is against and is combatting with their own story upcoming.

A definite must to listen to about a wonderful singer!

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African Giraffes cross the US during the dirty 30s

Revisado: 03-08-21

Lynda Rutledge tells a remarkable story set in post depression era America. An older man and a teen boy travel with 2 giraffes in a custom built truck across the US to the San Diego Zoo. We see and feel how different times must have been in the people, in the roads, and the society - including the "homeless" from the dust bowl that were kept out of California by border patrols. There is despair, hope, danger, fear, and the beautiful love and care between man and "beasts" - the lovely giraffes. A must for any history buff and any animal lover.

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Lost story of the American West

Revisado: 03-08-21

Amy Harton wrote this wonderful novel from the viewpoint of a Naomi a white woman and John Lowry a half Pawnee man. Traveling across the west, fighting off other tribes and cholera, and then kidnapping and murder, What could have broken them down makes them fight harder to survive and to show us how difficult it must have been. Amy Harton is a compelling author!

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A Savage Story with No Redemption

Revisado: 03-08-21

Mike Bond is an excellent, descriptive author. The narration by Simon Mattacks was relentless. There isn't any hope or redemption for any of the characters. It was a horrid fascination that led me to finish this book filled with despair and futility.

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Longmire is getting lost in the mountains...

Revisado: 09-26-20

I am sorry, but I'm catching up on my book reviews. This is Johnson "just" writing a story for the story's sake. After the Mexico debacle, he hasn't got back his mojo... Walt or Johnson.

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Full of stereotypes and a lot of vulgarity

Revisado: 09-26-20

I couldn't get to the end of the book. By the time "large Marge" appears, I had it.

What a waste of time!

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SNORE - The worst Longmire book to date!

Revisado: 09-26-20

In one chapter, Vic and Walt are at the library. Walt is droning on and on and on about the history of Custer's last stand painting. Vic is seated but sprawled across the table in complete boredom. That's how I felt. I think Johnson was indulging in his dream of being a history instructor, but to have Walt endlessly reading or quoting from books was completely boring. If I were to create a plot line - with action points - there would be very little in this book.

There wasn't much of a story and I kept falling asleep. I'm a big fan of Johnson's Longmire mysteries. But this will be the first one I return.

Big inconsistency - Walt arrests a man who has kidnapped his ex-wife and kids from Ohio. Instead of returning him to Ohio to face the courts, he ships him back to San Jose, CA for other crimes. What crimes.

Spoiler - you will spot who the final criminals are early on (after the ages and ages of Last Stand history.

I mean really - I kept falling asleep throughout this book. The end was "charming" but that's not the point of Longmire mysteries.

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