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The narration was awful. Stiff. Choppy.

Revisado: 06-29-24

I suspect it may have also been written by AI. Fifth grade level, at most.

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We expected more

Revisado: 06-14-24

Two well reputed writers resulted in a book that, while it held your interest, was filled with cliches and the amount that a person had to suspend disbelief was excessive. B thought out alternatives

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Captivating

Revisado: 10-19-23

The story and the characters were captivating. It had a satisfying ending.
The performance was well done and a pleasure to listen to.

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As the book went along it became weak and wearing

Revisado: 07-04-23

I loved the Eastern Oregon setting. Good charactor development.

Alternative lifestyles, belief systems and roles for the win.
Traditional lifestyles, roles and belief systems, not so much. Big time.
The depth and breadth of the heroine’s salty language was impressive, even amusing, as was her use of blasphemy. (Except for Christianity she managed to spare the other mainstream faiths.)
The narrator might have checked the correct pronunciation of Willamette, but native Oregonians are used to non-natives and A.I. mispronouncing it, so that can be forgiven.

Try books by William Kreuger for good writing in the same genre with your money being much better spent.

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Painful

Revisado: 03-26-23

Painful. Utility services back with in a week of an earthquake - with huge aftershocks- so profound that it changes the course of a river across a range of mountains from it?
The biggest thing for the city police to focus time and attention on is a 120+ year old murder?
I don’t think so.
At least we found out where Matt’s money came from.
We forgive the narrator his occasional mispronunciation.

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It held our attention, but …

Revisado: 03-07-23

You can tell it’s written by a woman. Which, as another woman, is fine. But a scared and tearful Texan police chief? No thank you. Romantic entanglement with a subordinate within four months on the job? There’s grounds for dismissal.
And native Western Oregonians would hope for a little better research. One example - the Coast Guard is more, much more, than competent to handle drug interdictions. In fact, the CGC Steadfast is internationally known for it.

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It just kept wandering on into the land of verbosity.

Revisado: 10-15-22

I was hopeful things would get better, tighter, at least more congruent, as the story progressed. Sadly, they did not.
The reader read well, but even the best reader can only do so much.

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Not his best

Revisado: 09-21-22

It kept us listening - since we've listened to the other 18. But this was far from his best work. Impossible to ignore how formulatic and gratuitous it is.
If this is one of the first of his books you've read don't let it stop you from reading others There are others that are better. For instance, "Lightning Strikes."

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Sheer grit on our part got us through this book.

Revisado: 02-06-22

At least the narration matched the character and the narrartor was easy to understand.
This book was painful. We forced ourselves to finish it to get to the review part. Chick Lit of the highest, or lowest, order.
Was the heroine's infatuation with the word, "fuck," supposed to make her endearing? It didn't.
Her continual lack of self awareness, jumping to lame conclusions, mentally imparting her own slant on life into everyone else's motivation and her moral double standards made a person want to give her a good shake. AND, warn her love interest to run.
To expect the reader to buy a total personality change in the last one hour of the book is kinda beyond the pale.
It could have been a good book. Maybe next time the writers will have more maturity and depth.

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A chick story with crime as a total aside

Revisado: 05-28-21

Very shallow plot. Redundent. 1/3 of the novella could have been cut.
Her other books, in other series, were much better.
There were many male character voices that the narrator poorly executed. She did fine with the female voices.

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