Trina Lynch

MacAvoy hates the Catholic Church

Revisado: 02-07-25

All man made institutions have bad actors but the author seems to delight in using the “history” of the Catholic Church as a platform for airing his grievances against the Church. A Pope with an illegitimate son, a priest who blasphemes and lusts after his female “friend.” I thought these books would be entertaining and I would learn interesting information about the Catholic Church instead I came away disgusted at the author’s twisting of history to meet his personal views on religion.

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Not worthy of “Historical” Fiction

Revisado: 02-07-25

The author uses the minimum amount of history necessary to make this book fall into the historical fiction category. It is written on a middle school level and disparages the Catholic Church at every possible occasion. A priest who lusts after his female friend and swears routinely, Swiss Guards and nuns who live in an openly gay community within the Vatican, a Pope who has an illegitimate son, and insinuating Pope John Paul is a liar. These books use the Catholic Church as a backdrop to the plots but more importantly to denigrate the Catholic religion. I would not recommend.

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Gone Woke!

Revisado: 11-09-24

I’ve read/listened to this entire series and thoroughly enjoyed them, until this book. Every bullet point of the liberal agenda is found here: DEI, transgender, anti-conservatism, anti-catholic, anti-US, climate change, and even delves into US politics. Paired with a new narrator this book seems very forced. Plot was predictable and drawn out. The characters of Three Pines barely played a role in this book except to mention them all by name every time Three Pines is discussed. Not Penny’s best work if it even was at all…

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Waste of a credit

Revisado: 07-25-24

Did someone else write this book? Filled with fluff, disjointed themes, and a slew of meaningless new characters this book is not like the first 3 which I thoroughly enjoyed. It appears authors whose books are picked up by TV series struggle with writing follow up novels. There were so many themes started, dropped, and not resolved. The twins were not extraordinary, Matthew barely existent, Diana’s character unlike previous books so much so that I seriously wonder whether Deborah Harkness actually wrote this book. Time frame was 2017 yet published in 2024 and seemed like it was added on in places to make it politically correct. Narration was marvelous but the book doesn’t deserve 1 star. Very disappointing.

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Mumbled and difficult to understand narration

Revisado: 06-09-24

I will need to go back and actually read these books for a complete understanding. The pronunciation was frequently incomprehensible and garbled. Narration made for a difficult listening experience.

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Crap on a Cracker, She’s Done it again!

Revisado: 05-24-24

Kim Harrison’s imagination and ability to bring it to life via words is nothing short of amazing. Although shorter than most of her books, it was well worth it. Looking forward to the 2nd and 3rd!

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Movie over story

Revisado: 06-12-23

When TV producers become involved, the quality of the story steeply declines. This is just another example, in a very long list of authors, who pieced together a novel just for the sake of publishing. There was no story here.

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Good Stand Alone

Revisado: 02-25-23

Great story and narration but prefer the Ruth Galloway series more. Maybe bc it’s a series and I feel more invested in the characters.

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Going Nowhere

Revisado: 01-02-22

Although I am immensely enjoyed this book, because of Davina Porter’s narration, this book truly went nowhere and lent nothing more to the Frasier/MacKenzie story but filler. Unlike other books in this series, there was no true story to be told here. Although there are interesting parts, it felt as if this book was written to string the reader along for the outlander series only. In other books there has been a prominent plot, conflict and resolution but that was not found in this novel. This was a compilation of multiple small stories bound together around Fraziers Ridge and the Revolutionary War with a very predictable ending. I had hoped that there would be more resolution from the ending of her previous novel, “Written in My Own Heart’s Blood.” Events that occurred could have been summed up in two hours versus 29 hours. I only hope it doesn’t take seven years more for her to write her next season installment to address the plot that should have been resolved in this novel.

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Excellent Narration

Revisado: 05-07-21

Kudos to HilaryMacLean for an excellent narration. Other reviewer‘s have complained about the heavily accented Scottish narration. When you pick an audio book written by a Scottish author, with excellent unseen twists and turns, also with a Scottish narrator, one should expect the narration to be accented Scottish and not one’s native pronunciation. This is what I love the most about audiobooks. Not only do you get to listen to amazing stories but you get to listen to them in authentic pronunciation from which the storyline is written. Five stars all the way around.

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