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Gag

Revisado: 03-02-24

I wanted to like this story; the premise was intriguing. But I only made it through a little more than 2 hours and I just couldn't go on. Charlotte was the most arrogant, demanding, childish character. She's totally out of control, but written as if she had a right to be. She whines about everything that goes wrong in her life and then turns around and has everything she wants dropped in her lap, yet it's not good enough for her. I just want to gag.

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Ez grating to hear

Revisado: 03-23-20

So glad this was a short one! The basic plot line of this story isn't bad but the way it was fleshed out, not for me. Maggie is a bored, rich housewife-busybody who can't MHOB. James asks her to leave it alone. She won't; she's entitled to know it all. And Hunt writes as if she's backing Maggie all the way.

Then there's Plummer, the narrator. She capture's Hunt's Maggie well. Keeps up the pace and does a decent job except - and this is both Plummer's and Hunt's fault - Why in heaven's name did she name the husband James???? Every single time his name came up in the possessive she read James-ez instead of just James.

Yes, I know there are two schools of grammar on this but it grates me to hear James's when I've learned and have always used James'. It just sounds better to my brain and my ear when it is written and spoken as, "James' wishes weren't to be followed." Instead, Plummer kept rattling on with "James-ez wishes..." Every "James-ez" made me wince and gnash. Why couldn't he just have been Jim??

So, please, Ms Hunt, in Jesus' name, do not name any prime character in your next book Charles, Thomas, Nicholas, or Lucas.

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Took easing into it

Revisado: 10-05-19

I'm not fond of these theatre-type productions with all sorts of background (and oft times foreground) noise. Add to that a jarring narrative, I was a bit put off at first. But as I eased into it, the hard accent matched the storyline, so, I found it acceptable and eventually appealing and well-matched to the project.

I enjoyed the way the author presented a sad, horrible end to Leonard's life as a positive based on Leonard's brightness that he shared with everyone. Even the detective, having never personally met Leonard, was deeply affected by his brightness. Glad I tried this one.

One note I have to those who found it stereotypical/cliche and lacking in depth. This is a one hour piece. For that amount of time, it needed to be a hate crime, hence the choice of LGBT, because there was only time for a suggestion of motive. As to depth, there wasn't time to flesh out the story with so much more some readers wanted to know. The point of the story was sharing brightness, not background on his death. If this had been a 5-hour listen, Leonard could have simply been any sweet, bright boy, not necessarily gay, who meant a lot to those around him.

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Hard to rate

Revisado: 08-12-19

Proof of Love was an interesting approach to an easy subject, infidelity. It was good and hard to take at the same time. Essentially, for me, what was so hard to take was this woman's attitude. I wanted to hit her upside the head. So condescending and snooty. No wonder Maurice went looking elsewhere! But there are people like that and Hutchinson wrote her well; I just didn't like her. I broke mid-story from listening to work and her words kept coming back to me, making me madder and madder at her.

Pressley read very well but too many problems. So many seconds passed between paragraphs that I thought several times the book might not have downloaded completely. She read LaShonda's voice as the worst possible example of sterotyping I could imagine. And the worst thing was that in the last 10 minutes LaShonda's voice completely changed to someone totally different, that I didn't know who it was for a minute.

The form was great, the quality of narration great, the story definitely worth the read, but too many things ticked me off. This makes it difficult to assign a number of stars.

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A good read except the ending

Revisado: 12-24-18

Everyone wants Larsson's Millenium, but it's not to be; he's gone. Lagercrantz does do a decent job though he'll never be Larsson. So why not review Lagercrantz without berating him for not being Larrsson?

Eye for an Eye was a good story, worth the read. What bothered me though, was that Lagercrantz made an overly noticeable effort to bring in everybody from Larsson's books and then tossed many of them aside. Take the hackers - they were enlisted to save Salander and did so with gusto, and then no mention of them at the end. The ending was rushed compared to the rest of the story. It began heavily detailed, but the ending had Salander near death one second and miles away with no explanation of how she got out the next.

Otherwise, it was a well-woven tale similar to the earlier books. It shed more light on the backstory and also fleshed out other victims and oppressors. Narration was terrific.

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Not what the summary leads you to expect

Revisado: 06-16-18

The Audible summary lead me to expect a good mystery, a story with several facets. And it did start out well. But after several hours of it going nowhere other than the two's sexual thoughts, I got fed up. Sex, believably written, enhances the story. This wasn't believable and it just got in the way. I just reread the summary. Not one word was mentioned about this aspect of the story and yet it takes up about half the book. Pointless. I'm checking Sandra Brown off my list.

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French Never Disappoints

Revisado: 12-20-17

Tana French novels are at the top of my list and The Trespasser confirms she stays there. Hilda Fay's reading of it is by far, one of the best narrations I've ever listened to.

When I began the story, I couldn't quite grasp why French would write this. I thought, "Oh no, not another tough female detective with a chip on her shoulder, proving she's better than the men." I confess to being a bit disappointed because it seemed so cliché. But the story, and especially the telling of it drew me in and I realized Conway was no cliché, but a very complex individual whose solving of the case brought her to grips with the 'chip'. She grew from the experience.

The ending, too, was complex. Nothing really clean about it, just as it would be in real life. My only complaint was that French didn't revisit Ruari at the end. The poor guy was ripped to shreds by all these cops. No one bothered to tell him that, in the end, Aislinn was ready to drop her plan for him.

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Wanted to like it

Revisado: 01-27-16

I really did expect to like it but the sisters were too predictable, too type-cast. I only got as far as Jim's second chapter with the gratuitous violence to animals. Just wasn't worth wasting my time on it.

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I'm a cat person but

Revisado: 11-06-15

...but I had German Shepherds when I was young and I could tell Crais knows them; he's a Dogman. Maggie standing on the console, leaning into Scot, his grabbing her neck fur and running his hands through it...yeah, he's a Dogman. And now I want a shepherd again!

I rarely give an overall 5 stars but this was a wonderful read in all aspects. Interesting from the start and gripping throughout. But it was the dog element that truly made the story. Crais provided a superb balance of his characters, plenty of Maggie without going overboard and, thankfully, just enough Conroy.

But the overall 5 is thanks to Andrews. His vibrance and energy in the characterizations are what audio is all about. Some people say listening to a book isn't as good as actually reading it. But for me at least, listening to a good storyteller like Andrews brings a book to life.

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Schmaltzy at times but definitely worth the read

Revisado: 04-09-15

I alternate types of books I read, this one falling into the tear-jerker category that I usually don't like so much. However, throughout most of Crickets, Martin was able to pull it off. Much of this can be attributed to Verner, one of the best readers I've heard in a while.

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