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My favorite AJ rom com so far

Revisado: 04-22-23

Abby Jiminez created the romantic leads just for me, at least that is what I’d like to think. Without giving too much away, the romantic leads exemplify kindness to the less than gregarious individuals in this world. I felt seen.

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Let’s not forget Mr. Wickham’s is predatory

Revisado: 12-15-22

I’m all for Lydia rising above her self-inflicted circumstances. She seems mildly apologetic, I guess. But I draw the line at redeeming a man with a well established history of preying on young naive girls- he’s made his first impression. No sir.

Great performances and witty banter though.

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Always 5 🌟

Revisado: 08-11-21

MJ Sullivan story telling and TG Reynolds narration just makes sense!

A peak into the history that paved the
way for Riyria was wonderful!

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A treat!

Revisado: 01-16-18

I liked Weir's Martian novel just fine but I wasn't sure that I would be that invested in this second novel. I'm delighted that this story is an absolute treat. Rosario Dawson's narration is perfect exactly what I expect my spunky heroin to sound like in a conversation. The story itself is engaging because it's full of action, suspense and, although a lot of it goes over my head, the scientific details add an oddly pleasing spice to the storytelling. That Weir can tell a story in the voice of any person on the street while simultaneously expounding on scientific details is nothing short of brilliant. I don't think I would have enjoyed the story if it weren't for Ms Dawson's gift for being the characters as well as being the narrator. Her accents performance is not bad at all.

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Another shot to tide Riyria fans over til the next

Revisado: 12-11-17

My fascination with this series is driven by unconditional love for Royce and Hadrian.

While I am utterly satisfied with all installments of this "Chronicles" series, this one had a little more in the way if extra.

For long-time fans, MJS treats us to more insight and background of some of the well-known minority races of Elan.

For new readers, you will enjoy a fast paced action story with intrigue and fatastical creativity. This world is well- known for the two heroes and you will understand why.

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Hooking ingtrigue in first chapter

Revisado: 10-09-17

From the very first chapter we are hooked in to a scientific breakthrough that threatens religion and creationism.

Thankfully the story unfolds pretty rapidly so I was able to keep my attention focused on the story.

The story itself didn't blow my mind like DaVinci Code had, but with little nuggets of historical fact woven in-which are definitely intriguing all on their own-Dan Brown keeps this new Robert Langdon entry going with with sufficient entertainment.

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For lovers of multi-character epics

Revisado: 09-24-17

Tim Gerard Reynolds, as always, brilliant, especially with this multi-character saga.

The focal character is a young man, Ty, with the heritage to save the world from an imprisoned but well-resourced dark wizard. Dark villain has sadistic minions rounding up as much magic wielding people to torture to their evil side.

It's up to a band of brave and capable council of magic wielders to hide amd protect Ty from the evil faction as he discovers his true heritage and powers.

The story tells of the various, well written battles that lead up to what is clearly meant to be an ongoing saga. 50% of this first book is character building.

I can't speak for enjoyablility because I don't like so many key characters.

I can say that what kept me from giving up, besides TGR'S narration, was how certain scenes were richly described The fighting scenes, while a little drawn out for my taste, were creative. And if you like plausible violence and plausible consequences of bloody fighting, this may be for you.

There are some rather gritty chapters that are, like-wise, very descriptive - elements of torture.

This story has a lot of fantastical beasts, violently created to wreak bloody harm on people.

I feel like the author could have kept me interested in this saga if he had revealed a bit more of the central mystery,. Ty obviously has enormous potential but we are only treated to a tiny bit of his ability. He seems to be a straggler in his own destiny. I guess we will have to wait for the next installments. But I have to say, the lack of insight into the plot seems to be gratuitous teasing and doesn't leave me craving.

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Barely finished without returning.

Revisado: 09-19-17

Would you try another book from R. S. Belcher and/or Bronson Pinchot?

Belcher's premise is that all the big boys, Illuminati, Masons ... were mages or occultists. Of all gods ... money is supreme and his world, this is the center of life. So true in real life, IMHO. The key characters are prone to sadism and self-preservation. The anti-hero main character has one foot in selfishness and the other selflessness. His selfishness is more impressive than his selflessness. He maneuvers entertainingly though a plot of big-money bad guys and has some interesting friends helping him along the way.

Belcher puts forth that real life historical events were planned around and for darkly mystical purposes. In and of itself, his premise is interesting but I guess for me, it was too shallow, not deeply developed - i.e. my mind wasn't blown. But this didn't seem to be an epic tale so ... guess that's what it was. The magical characters, for some reason, almost all exist with an innate obsession with sadism.

Pinchot is blessed with a great voice and talent for accents. BUT!!! His southern drawl was tooooo draaawwled. He stretched it out too much I think. His performance of character Grimmer was inexplicably choppy. I tried adjusting speed, but ... it was what it was. This could just be me, but it felt like he just wasn't trying in the first few chapters and even as it sounded better as the chapters went by, the end effort was just plain mediocre.

I wanted to return the book by Chapter 4. I was not intrigued by the plot, Pinchot was just ... unfathomable, and I had no connection to ANY of the characters. The main character, an anti-hero was just GROSS!

In the end, I finished it because it only cost me $5. In all honesty, this could be an enjoyable, thought-light, beach read. And for all I know, production wanted to stretch the southern drawl in the beginning to shake the reader up a bit for a dark but shallowly grim tale.

What could R. S. Belcher have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

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Decent story when you're in between

Revisado: 09-17-17

What did you like best about Slow Horses? What did you like least?

This story won't rock your world, but it'll do when you need an audio book for that long drive and either the book you want still hasn't been released or you don't have time to go searching for a hands-down-credit-worthy book.

If anything its fun to despise the supposed "good guys", spies, who wheel, deal and feud amongst themselves while an innocent life hangs in the balance.

Would you listen to another book narrated by Gerard Doyle?

He's good!

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For more adept minds than mine.

Revisado: 09-17-17

Would you listen to A Column of Fire again? Why?

No, I wouldn't listen to it again even though I've listed to the first two sagas in this series at least twice each. I think this is because the first two stayed in very close proximity to Kingsbridge with side-international adventures here and there.

This story is multi-loci (sorry, I'm gonna go with that "word")... so so many locations/characters crucial to the story. While the historical fact should be sound, its too much for my little old brain to digest. So either its me or its just that broad historical context is too much.

Would you be willing to try another book from Ken Follett? Why or why not?

I would definitely listen to another book by Follett but only within the Kingsbridge universe. Follett is still an incredible storyteller.

What does John Lee bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

An awesome variety of different accents. I love accents, especially Brit ones.

Who was the most memorable character of A Column of Fire and why?

To me, it doesn't seem like one main character was supposed to stand out among the others. All are noble, courageous and crucial to the historical context.

...Maybe Queen Elizabeth I ... but she only occurs in colorful snippets here and there.

Any additional comments?

I probably should admit the the rating is based on my own taste in historical fiction topic.

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