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Not for me

Revisado: 08-31-24

it was exhausting to read. i did not care for or about anyone in this story that went on with broken bones, burns, sickness, accidents and death. not to mention the never ending self pitying. I am glad I did not care. It would have been too depressing otherwise. It was not for me. I really liked Cutting for Stone but not this book.

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i did not finish

Revisado: 04-03-24

it is very rare that I decide to not finish a book, even an audible selection which this book was. I stopped 3/4 when I realized it was not going to change, it eas going to continue to be a boring reading of an unfathomable story. Too many characters. No reference I could use to the era and events written about. When the writing started to offend for NO reason discrenable to me I shut it down.

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Nothing scarey here.

Revisado: 11-12-23

The language in this long written book is beautiful. The narration, reading of it is excellent. However, this story does nothing to advance, honor or evoke Jackson's Hill House. There is nothing captivating or horrific about this story or this hpuse. It's characters are mishandled, the story of the house rendered ineffectual and the plot is too simplistic. I kept listening though. I suppose I was just keeping the hope that something would at least unnerve me. And did make me google/Youtube Corbain's last performance. But where the heck did THAT come from?

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Strout is a master of observation.

Revisado: 11-07-21

But it is too bad she spent that much time observing worthless people occupying such priviledged spaces. Her words are beautiful. The story is not. In fact I found the story so uninspriring that I scoffed (yes, that would be the word Lucy would use) at its last words.

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Do not bother

Revisado: 06-12-21

I am 15 minutes from the end and I cannot take one more sanctimonious word. What a pitiful excuse of a pandemic story. What unlikable characters. Jeneanne is worthless. The whole cast emotionally abuse a little boy. And last but not least, it was a mining village for pity's sake and none of these geniuses thought to investigate that possibility but spent the whole book worrying about whether they would get credit for a breakthrough without breaking through anything but my patience. Oh, now I get it...it was a story about the CDCl!

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A totally unncesessary book

Revisado: 04-28-21

If Paula McLain was trying to create a unique and memorable character/protangonist, she instead threw together a totally unbelivable detective, woman, adoptee, person let alone an offensive mother/female. I don't normally read " who done it" nor do I support the serial killer genre but she wrote the Paris Wife so what could go wrong. I am afflected with the condition that I have to finish what I started to read. I wish I had stopped listening but I guess I kept waiting for the main character to appear as a real person. It never happened. Like many stories it is said that in order to enjoy it you need to care about the people involved. I will stop short of accusing the author of gratuitous violence but this novel did not convey any message other than sensationalism when children are totured and killed.

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A wreck of a book

Revisado: 02-04-21

A rotten story about wholly unlikeable characters. And a lot of words (too many) signifying nothing narrated by a souless voice. Why did I finish it? I have no good answer but knew if there was no redemption for this story I had to - in order to have any creds to pan the book. Shame on the reviewer I read in the WPO recommeding this book.

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