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Too much stage setting, not enough plot

Revisado: 12-05-24

I know it’s hard to write a novel, but this author wrote way too much book with very little reward . It is thick with scene descriptions and thin on plot. Every time someone enters a room, the listener must hear every detail of the setting and every word of the dialogue. No summaries, even when the scene doesn’t further the plot. Actually I’m several hours in and still haven’t detected a plot. This book just seems like a mashup of several popular genres. Not worth your time unless you like to absently listen to British accents without missing anything.

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Slow and formulaic but harmless

Revisado: 03-20-24

I picked this book because I enjoy the narrator, and she did not disappoint. However, the story… not so much. Anyone who has ever explored this genre could predict the ending from the start. I fast forwarded through the middle of every chapter and didn’t miss anything. But if you like British accents, this won’t hurt you.

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Mrs Dalloway in the Outback

Revisado: 12-15-23

This novel is really an impressionistic painting. A moment in time captured with metaphors in a lovely accent. No plot, just portraits. Gently sedating. 

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The editor should be fired

Revisado: 11-12-23

If there was editing, it was poor. The story was interesting, but it just wouldn’t end. Life after life, the two characters made so little progress. The poor narrator struggled with a Portuguese male accent through thousands of lives, hundreds of deaths and dozens of false endings. The payoff was better than I was fearing, but mostly a relief.

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Only if you have time to waste

Revisado: 07-29-23

I only finished it because I needed something to get me through workouts, and I kept forgetting to download something else. The story was borrowed from every other story like this. But the narration was very good.

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Strange stilted narration

Revisado: 06-01-23

Be sure to listen to the sample all the way through. I couldn’t bear the strange pauses and breaks mid sentence. Story was overwrought too. As an original audible member and avid listener, I can’t believe this was a bestseller.

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Waste of time and money

Revisado: 09-25-22

So contrived so millennial so stupid. Waste of a credit and a few minutes. That’s all it took to realize

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So so painfully slow

Revisado: 05-13-22

I wanted to like this book because it was my only listen option. But nothing I mean nothing happens until about 2/3 of the way through. Just overwrought detailed descriptions of nothing. You could easily skip to midway and pick up the slim plot thread. There are no twists at the end. So glad it’s over.

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Beware animal and literature lovers

Revisado: 05-25-20

If you hate books that seek to prove a character has suffered a hard childhood by killing off her favorite pet, skip this one. And if you hate books that are overwrought in a poor attempt at magical realism, definitely skip this one.

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Read only if you enjoy family misery

Revisado: 12-19-19

Four hours in and very little had happened except a family making each other miserable over and over. Just awful slogging writing and narration. Didn’t care what happened to these people and nothing did.

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