Rebecca

I didn't finish it

Revisado: 09-13-24

I got this as my free credit during a 2 for 1 sale, and I picked it up because either was being advertised as a rom-com and I felt like I could use something lighthearted. This is NOT lighthearted.

It literally starts with a list of trigger warnings. And both characters are chock full of trauma.

The author has a nice narrative style, though the characters are a little exaggerated perhaps but I got about 10 chapters in and it was 90% doom and gloom with only a few lines that I would actually consider comedy, and I had to give it a pass. It felt like someone tried to mix one of those Christian romances meant to show you the healing power of God with a dark romance (although there wasn't actually any religion in it) and came out with something resembling an awkward lifetime TV movie that can't decide what direction it's going in. Maybe it gets better but it definitely wasn't what I signed up for, though that's more Audible's fault than the author's.

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Too long to end on a cliffhanger

Revisado: 12-18-23

The naration is good, the banter is often witty and I was very amused by the sly references to modern/pop culture things in this medieval setting. It was cleverly done.

Having said that, this book is really long for how little happens in it, adding that it ends...not quite on a cliffhanger but certainly on a decidedly unresolved note, I find myself rather annoyed with it. I would say it is the novel equivalent of a soap opera, which is simply not to my taste, and not, to my mind a particularly cozy book, which is what I was looking for. I find myself disappointed overall.

I did consider giving the second one a try since I made it through the first one, but the first review on that one is that it is another cliffhanger. so 17 hours for the 1st one and the second and third are like 13 each. 40+ hours for this story is definitely too much. The author should have had more editing to start with. They have too many pointless threads with the cat, and the opposing kings viewpoints scattered in for no reason. I mean the cat part was cute, but considering the length, something needs to go.

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I couldn't finish it

Revisado: 06-20-23

It might be interesting enough for a free read, but I couldn't get past the weird narration. The voices were awful, weird pauses between words made it hard to focus. And I couldn't keep the characters straight. The main character seemed to flip flop between good girl and bad girl in an odd way that made it seem like the author didn't know what she was doing.

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Entertaining story-weird narration

Revisado: 05-13-22

This isn't great literature, but it is a fairly entertaining story written in an amusing way. I definitely laughed out loud a couple of times. The POV alternates between the two main characters, and each time it does the narrator changes to suit, but what I found weird about it is that the actor reading for the Male POV also voices the female hero in those chapters, and the woman voices the man's in her's. It's awkward and makes it feel a little disjointed. It also makes keeping track of other characters a little difficult as the two actors voice those characters differently. I don't understand why they would go to the trouble of having multiple readers and use them this way.

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Praise for Patricia C. Weeds & Amanda Ronconi

Revisado: 09-16-21

Patricia Wrede has been a favorite since I read the Enchanted Forest Chronicles!!!! GreatRead!

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A new media for an old favorite!

Revisado: 08-10-21

I have loved this book and re-read it every summer for years! This is a lovely new way to experience it, hands free and a great companion to any summer activity! Great for the young Ang young a heart.

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Nora Roberts and JD Robb at there brilliant best!

Revisado: 06-14-21

The best of all possible world my favorite two favorite authors In a laugh out loud whirlwind of romance, mystery and crime fighting badassery!!! A story so big it took half a century to tell it!

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A fun look into 1920s jazz

Revisado: 02-21-19

I really love the tone of the Phrynie books. There is this wonderful sense of balance to the character's manners, logic, and sense of justice. This book also has a lovely sense of mood, balancing the horrors of the Great War with the jovial party of the jazz scene

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Entertaining

Revisado: 01-02-19

This free book was entertaining in the way that Gweneth Paltrow's Emma was entertaining, while largely true to the story, the adaptation loses some of the flavor of Austin's language that uas mad eit such a classic. This was somewhat softened by the talent of the speakers, and Emma Thompson's experience with such classic works gave some of it back in her tone as narrator but I cant help but feel that it lacks the sheer genius that uas made Jane Austin's otherwise pedestrian works survive.

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It seems a little disorganized

Revisado: 11-29-18

At first I thought this was trying to be gothic, but then it was more like a full out horror story, but then it was never really scary. The transitions were a little too rough, and some of the pauses were weird. I'm not sure if that was the author or the narrator. Overall the story had a lot of unrealized potential, but it never really managed to show any of it off. There was no history, no reason, and no real resolution. It was just kinda meh.

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