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Revisado: 01-20-25

I enjoyed the comforting story. The narration was fine, until the terrible British accent. It ruined everything.

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Don't listen! Read

Revisado: 06-04-19

This is the improved narration? Awful. Especially for a book that be aware of reception.

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Tell not show

Revisado: 08-06-18

I wanted to love this story. Rather than being caught up in the telling, though, I was often left thinking about everything I didn't like about it---losing the thread of the story itself. What could have been a rich tale was flattened out by telling the story rather than showing me what characters said and did. The author sprinkled so many random GRE words throughout that I wonder if it was some kind of challenge in his doctoral program. The vocabulary did not fit the characters or the narrator, so too many words stuck out---kicking me out of the story again. I didn't mind the plot, but it deserved better writing. This seemed a lot like a student novel, though I would think that peer review might have improved it significantly if it was written during his graduate degree in creative writing. The promised "full cast" performance was more of a single, narrator's voice with occasional pops of color from other voices. Sometimes the narrator spoke in other character's voices, and sometimes the other voice actors spoke their lines. I wish the author had held on to this idea and rewritten it later. Two stars is generous for this novel.

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