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I was expecting a guided meditation

Revisado: 12-07-21

It was mostly music, not a guided meditation. It was not suitable for my purposes.

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Financial advice ruined by anti-government screeds

Revisado: 10-23-21

While the book title makes it sound like it's geared toward the average person who needs to save money for retirement, it's really geared toward people who have no problem saving money for retirement, but rather want to legally minimize their taxes once they're retired and when they pass on any money they've saved to relatives when they die. This is interesting but not what I was looking for.

Also, the experience of listening is ruined by the unnecessary editorializing about the evil government "stealing" rich people's money. I'm sorry, but if you put money in tax deferred accounts and then get angry about paying taxes on them later (which is what deferment is--deferment does not mean never paying taxes), you're an idiot. I have to roll my eyes at people who expect to live in this country and reap all the benefits of living in it but not have to pay their fair share of taxes.


Reading the book would be better because the audio format makes it difficult to skip the anti-government rants.

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cute love story!

Revisado: 04-14-18

this was a light, fun romance about a firefighter who had been injured on the job and therefore cannot fight fires anymore, and a genius computer science who has trouble understanding social cues. A woman who helps run a local coffee shop plays Matchmaker with them, because otherwise their paths would never cross. But they turn out to complement each other nicely.

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Great reader, dull story

Revisado: 05-12-16

I enjoyed Gus Klondike's narration. He had distinctive voices for each character and gave expression to even the dullest prose. I will definitely look for more of his audiobooks.

But I won't be continuing with the HVZ series. Here's why.

If you are expecting a novel when you get this book, you will be quite disappointed. It's a novella-length work that cuts off abruptly in order to force you to buy the next book if you want to find out what happens next.

Fortunately for me, I don't care what happens next. The actual plot of the story barely just begins by the end of Chapter 15, and the next "chapter" is titled "Epilogue."

Just to give you an idea of how slowly the story moves, we go through five chapters without even learning that the main character has been a werewolf since birth. This is a strange revelation, given that the entire story is written from his point of view, and it isn't exactly a secret to him that he's a werewolf. Why this knowledge should have been hidden from the reader, I don't know.

But the big problem with this book is a there is no narrative tension. The character just moves from one scene to another. There are tedious descriptions of what orientation week is like on college campuses, with lots of details that are completely irrelevant to the rest of the story. Do I need to read the first day's schedule along with the main character? Do I need know about the a cappella group that opened one assembly? Does the dull anti-drinking lecture given to the students have any bearing on this story at all, considering that we never see the characters drinking or considering drinking? Do I need the details of two cafeteria layouts and the pricing of each meal to understand anything about the story or characters? Do I need to meet a roommate that barely comes up in the story again? I'd say no to all of these.

As for the romance/erotica, there is no romance, just two werewolves who seem not to like each other at first for no good reason (again, no tension), and then suddenly cannot resist to their sexual attraction to each other. There is one sex scene and two suggestive ones where the alpha wolf shows his dominance. Hate-to-love can be an enjoyable trope, but these characters just jumped from one to the other without much conflict. I didn't care about them disliking each other, and I didn't care about them liking each other. Sigh.

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