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Heartbreaking but hopeful

Revisado: 09-15-24

This book was triggering in some ways in that it reminded me of things that happened in my own family but overall it was hopeful and gutsy and validating and I’m glad I listened to it.

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Background music not relaxing

Revisado: 11-29-22

I would rather listen to calm dialogue. The background music is irritating and the jingling sounds are too sharp for my ears. This isn’t proper hypnosis in my opinion and not conducive to me getting any sleep.

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Juvenile

Revisado: 04-08-21

I really wanted to like this book, but after several chapters I felt as though I was reading a book written for teens. Hollywood referances all over the place, over the top characters and awful dialog. I had to return it.

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not long enough

Revisado: 09-04-20

lovely clear sound, but just 2 hours long. audible, get it together 8 hours please

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What invasion?

Revisado: 02-19-19

I bought the book partly because I was intrigued by the title and it got good reviews. And its not a bad book, just not as advertised. Mostly, to me, it was a post-apocalyptic version of National Lampoon's "Vacation", without, obviously, the humor. I kept waiting for aliens to invade, but it was nearly all a sort of travelogue peopled with unlovely and unsympathetic characters who I was rather hoping would get annihilated, preferably about halfway through. No such luck. I don't think Ill be investing in any of the sequels. I don't care what happens to this family.

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Lucky find!!!

Revisado: 11-29-18

I don't usually write reviews but I just can't get over how good this book was. Usually, I stick to European history and Golden Age Detective books but there have been so many great Sci-Fi movies and television series' lately that I took a chance on finding a Sci-Fi audiobook that I might like. I put this off for a long time because I was afraid of getting crap. This book was just fantastic, from beginning to end. The pacing was right on, action all over the place, believable plot and characters and no saccharine love scenes. You actually care what happens to these people. I am buying the next three books in this series. I'm hooked.

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great stories, wrong narrator

Revisado: 05-25-15

What did you like best about The Great Detective Collection? What did you like least?

Many lovely long stories ruined by the narration. Cathy Dobson seems as though she is constantly trying to sound like a man, and every sentence is painfully drawled out at the end so that it becomes distracting and tortuous to listen to. All the characters sound the same from story to story. I hate leaving a review that is at all negative, and this is just my perspective, but I was really looking forward to listening to this book and it's been difficult.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

Not really.

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