Jane B.

strong start. quickly devolved.

Revisado: 01-29-22

Interesting start w/good characters, interesting sub plot about film documentary. Soon fell apart with repeat references to main characters weight, appearance, lingerie. By the time the crime bit appears, the main characters have become a trope.

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great mix of cycling fan geek-out & world history

Revisado: 02-03-21

I loved this book. The story was a bit uneven, but the historic detail and stories of the cycling greats made it a fantastic listen.

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Interesting telling of an interesting life

Revisado: 02-03-21

Megan Rapinoe does a great job telling her story, keeping it interesting, and insightful. Stories about her family and youth through world cup and her evolving politics. A genuinely intelligent person, thinking about the world around her ... we can use some of that.

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Good characters, timely, a fun listen

Revisado: 02-03-21

I've enjoyed each book in this series, it's a perfect commute or taking-a-walk listen. The characters are well-drawn, interesting, and unique, the stories include real world events.

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Mawkish, waayyyyy too long

Revisado: 07-07-20

The story began in an intriguing way, the set-up and charactors interesting. Not too far into the story, the father's narrative about his daughter became cloying, sounding more like a teenager romanticising over a crush than a parent talking about a child.
As the story dragged on and on and on it became increasingly improbable. By chapter 20 it was completely unbeleivable, the characters seemed false, and the writer's effort to draw the story out minute by minute became a tedious excercise and killed off any emotional impact.
Rarely do I give up on any story / book, but I just couldn't listen for one more minute.

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narration so bad I had to stop listening

Revisado: 08-16-19

I've loved the Chee and Leaphorn stories, a great commute read and listen. The narrator ruined this tale, the young women sounded vacuous and Chee had an accent like a Yiddish speaker. Some of it was so nad I had to laugh out loud.

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Deeply researched engaging story

Revisado: 08-03-19

If you like biographies, depression stories and history brought to life via Audible, you will love this tale. Nelson Algren is a singular talent, as a writer, as a listener, as a teller-of-tales. Algrens story is brought to life in this telling. If White City caught your imagination, you'll love this. If you are engaged as a reader of intelligent critique and history, you'll love this.

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Started out a good story .... then went downhill.

Revisado: 01-28-19

Was looking for an engaging mystery for commute listening. The story began well, interesting characters and intertwined situations. For the first 60% of the book it moved forward, deepening the tale and personalities. Unfortunately, by 3/4 of the way through the author seemed to get bored with telling a detailed story and it turned into a drag of one beating / accident / gunplay / fire / tornado ( not really a tornado ) to the next. It felt like a jumbled attempt to fill chapters. If the story had ended three quarters of the way through it would have been very entertaining.

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engaging story til I figured it out

Revisado: 06-29-18

Narration was good and moved the story forward. once I figured out the twist it was a slog to the end

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three chapters in i was cheering for the killer.

Revisado: 01-03-18

the narration was good, and the only thing, along with a very length slog through an office day that kept me listening. the story was good as well but the main character was a whiney pathetic mess.

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