Sarah

One of the best books in modern literature.

Revisado: 06-30-16

This is one of the best books written in the 21st century. If you haven't read or listened to this yet, just do it.

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Could not finish.

Revisado: 04-01-16

I couldn't finish this. I'm sure if I'd had some sort of reason I HAD to I would have managed, but since I didn't I only subjected myself to a couple of hours. It was just baaaad. There were mistakes for one thing-- I mean, just basic editing mistakes, which are very annoying and shouldn't happen. I can certainly overlook mistakes in a good book, but this was dumb, pointless, boring, and made no sense. I'm glad I got it from kindle unlimited and didn't pay for it!

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Just listen to Lake House

Revisado: 02-24-16

I wrote a good review for Lake House, which I really enjoyed and then got this book thinking it would also be good. It was basically the exact same book. The Lake House was much better, since it's more recent and the author has had more practice writing essentially the same story. I haven't read any of her other books to see if they are also the same, but I suspect that they're probably similar. I'm probably being more critical that is strictly necessary, since I've read authors who are worse than she is.

Also, the narrator's natural Australian accent is charming, but the way she does other accents starts to grate after a while.

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Excellent!

Revisado: 02-18-16

I read and listen to a lot of books. A lot. About 5 a week, and my taste as subjective as anyone's, but I do have an inarguably large sample size for comparison. I don't often have high expectations for books of this type-- that are best sellers targeted for mass market success rather than more selective readers, but this book was both well written and entertaining. It isn't going to be read as a great work of fiction for generations to come, but it was wonderfully entertaining. It also had some moments of poignancy and insight that were too isolated to make it stand out as a truly amazing book, but really contributed to it being more enjoyable. Other reviewers have criticized it for being overly predictable, but I think mysteries with the sole goal of unpredictability usually end up just being implausible, and most good mysteries don't have ridiculously unlikely plot twists. I thought it was only as "predictable" as it was meant to be, since realistic human behavior should make sense.

I also enjoy narrators with Australian accents and found that to be a bonus, but if you have a strong aversion to them, then this one is possibly not the best choice.

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Pretty good.

Revisado: 04-06-15

Overall the book was engaging, the characters were interesting, had depth, and I found them relatable. Many reviewers said that they felt that the characters were very unlikeable, and it was true that they were not easy to like, but I don't find many real people easy to like either, though the story did lack a character you could really get behind, except maybe "Richie" whom you don't really get to know until the end. I think I was far happier with the book having gotten it for a discount on the "daily deal" than if I had paid full price. I will also say that the narrator choosing to sing occasionally rather than simply read out song lyrics was extremely ill advised and was horrific, but thankfully brief. I cannot imagine who thought that was a good idea. It did also contain quite a lot of needlessly graphic sex and obscene language, which while it doesn't bother me doesn't really add much to the book and is good to know in advance of deciding to play it on a car trip with, say, your mother.

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An entertaining listen but not great.

Revisado: 02-08-15

There was nothing terribly wrong with this book, and the narrators did a very good job (no complaints, 4.5 stars), it just wasn't great. The description of post-concussive syndrome and the description of the behavior of the character who suffered from it seemed good to me (so if you're not an actual expert on brain injuries you won't be constantly rolling your eyes at glaring inaccuracies, and even if you are an expert you'll be able to get over them). One big problem is that the victim/suspect/witness/damsel character in this story is a little too crazy for too long in too much the same way, so it starts to be a bit much. She keeps saying "Vero wants to fly, Vero wants to fly," about 100 times after you get the point that Vero wants to fly and she (the protagonist) wants to talk about it in unhealthy nonsensical excess (this isn't giving anything away, she starts up with this pretty quickly into the book). Apart from that this is just a quick decent read, but not a great work of literature, and about what you would expect based on other books by this author.

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