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Sounds like a first draft

Revisado: 06-08-24

This story makes so little sense, the characters are so poorly developed and the dialogue so false sounding, I should have stopped listening a few chapters in but I kept thinking it would get better and start making sense. The narrator delivers every line with maximum drama, it made everything have the same impact so a lot may have been lost there. It just generally feels like a first attempt that needs to be cleaned up and edited.

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Outstanding, smart and touching

Revisado: 10-10-23

And Fiona Shaw! What an absolute treat. These books get better and better. I could do with an all Joyce’s diary edition.

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My cup of tea!

Revisado: 09-05-23

5 stars
This is a call back to the book but audible demands more words. So… good! Funny. Enlightening. Smart and silly.

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Excellent, thrilling, curious

Revisado: 05-03-22

About ten minutes in, I remembered how much I love Sara Gran. Natural intuitive writing that feels like your own thoughts and a fascinating story to follow. I enjoy how women centered this was, female grief and power and pleasure.

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The best.

Revisado: 11-28-20

The stories are lovely, inclusive and relaxing. The voice will carry you away. This book is absolutely the best in the sleep genre. Even if you listen the podcast, you’re missing out on the new stories and they are really beautiful.

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Smash cut to...

Revisado: 05-27-19

Genius. Hilarious. Listened three times in a row. Make more please.
Season two is a must.

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A great premise but

Revisado: 09-05-17

Such painfully bad writing. I kept waiting for it to get better but it didn't and I gave up. Lots of lousy forced metaphors and I just never cared about the characters.

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So little magic, so much dull soap opery.

Revisado: 07-18-14

What would have made The Book of Life better?

If the main character did magic more then once every few months the story would have been much better. She is so whiney and weak, I found myself rolling my eyes over and over. I enjoyed the first book, patiently waited out the second but this one…so much minutiae about the different ways different vampires might think about what someone else might do. If you are interested in fantasy stories about magical creatures this isn't a good choice. It's more of a drawn out soap opera that happens to have some magical creatures in it.

Has The Book of Life turned you off from other books in this genre?

Not really, I hoped it would be a fantasy book but it isn't.

Did Jennifer Ikeda do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

Yes, the narrator was good.

What character would you cut from The Book of Life?

Honestly, Diana. She spends so much time dreading, thinking, whining, and then more dreading. She is supposed to be this incredibly powerful witch but almost never does magic. Is it so much to ask that we have a story with a strong confident female character who doesn't spend all her time worrying and doubting herself?

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This is awful.

Revisado: 05-22-14

What would have made Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye better?

If she had written it with realistic characters, natural dialogue, and without explaining every detail. Her main character is supposed to be a young woman but talks and thinks like a much older person. "Looky-loo"? "Guffaw"?

Would you ever listen to anything by Victoria Laurie again?

No, the reader drove me up the wall although she sounded as old as the character seemed.

Any additional comments?

As a reader I don't need to be told every detail about how someone gets into a car, or opens a door.

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Wait. What?

Revisado: 10-04-13

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

This book was really confusing. I read a lot of sci-fi stories but I could not make heads or tails of this. I think it could be an interesting story, maybe with a reread and making some notes along the way but there were so many intricate ideas that were explained so quickly I couldn't understand why things worked out the way they did.

What aspect of Ray Porter and Mary Robinette Kowal ’s performance would you have changed?

They performed the same characters in different ways and sometimes with different accents which made it tricky to figure out who was speaking. Ray has a way of throwing away the ends of his lines, it makes the dialogue sound very casual and Mary doesn't do that so the characters seemed to have different attitudes each time the narration switched.

Do you think The Incrementalists needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

It needs a guide!

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