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Revisado: 12-28-20

I’ve got a big problem with having too much. I like the way Fumio approaches things. Interestingly he quotes several other sources that I have used to help in my transformation and I feel I can use a lot of his philosophy, along with the practical advice.

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Vintage Sherlock Holmes

Revisado: 11-01-20

Challenging to listen to, due to the old style English language and some racial undertones, but exactly the amazing stories they were >100 years ago. Great reader.

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Whiny Rich white people.

Revisado: 09-27-20

I listen to just the first two chapters of this, where the first two characters introduced themselves. I can go no further.

I really just can’t get into people and complaining about $600 salmon meals, and their private school tuition.

I’m actually someone who could have these sorts of problems if I wanted to, but if I ever did, I certainly wouldn’t complain about them in a book. The whole first two chapters were about how wealthyThese people are, and how they didn’t expect the changes of Covid to affect them. Quite frankly it’s embarrassing

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Unpleasant, not funny, not cute.

Revisado: 12-31-19

A Horrible mess. I'm only writing a review because I was trying to figure out how to get the book out of my library...

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Very enjoyable youth fiction

Revisado: 09-25-19

I’m an adult, but I like stories like this. Friendship, a coherent magical system, making hard choices.
The orchestra in the background , and knowing it was youth players, just made it better.

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Best of the audible originals I’ve heard so far

Revisado: 05-03-19

Poignant, well performed, artsy without being self-absorbed. I was glad I listened to this, I like to hear things from a different point of view.

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Like a report

Revisado: 05-02-19

I like non fiction. Usually. This felt like a freshman college report on the Queen, maybe with some tawdry additions to try to get the Enquirer to purchase it. Glad it was free. Would have returned it if it wasn’t. I didn’t think it was a good attempt at anything—-not history, romance, or gossip. The narrator did a pretty good job with little to work with.

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In all fairness, I only listened to about 5 min

Revisado: 01-05-19

Just couldn’t stand it, seems like it was “normalizing” profanity, drugs, sex, disrespect for parents. Maybe this is a cultural thing that I just don’t get, but books like this don’t invite me to understand.

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Pat and uninteresting

Revisado: 03-24-18

This book was a romance novel set in a world that didn’t make sense. The heroine was pretty solidly awesome, and I liked the narrators voice, so I listened all the way through, hoping for a redeeming storyline. Unfortunately, none came.
Premise is interesting and I could see it happening...division between firstborns and secondborns and zero tolerance of third and laterborns but I couldn’t understand what the big war machine was about. Why, if the secondborns just started their rebellion, was this huge war machine in place? Why, if the secondborns has this amazing weapon that could destroy all technology, did they not use it? And if they only had one, why did they use it when they did?
Rosella only survives because of the men who have loved her by seeing her on a TV screen. (Yes, like I said, she is awesome, but only because three different men that are infatuated with her save her from time to time.) the one time she goes to the battlefield she totally sucks at her job, and betrays her country. For no good reason that I could see. The lives of her countrymen were at stake and she, rather flippantly decides to save someone on the other side.
Everyone has tracking devices, but apparently they are so easy to fool that it can be casually done. And even though there are rules about “relationships” between secondborns, apparently everyone in our story flaunts them and nobody gets caught unless they get pregnant at which point we kill them?
The exclusively firsthand narrative was also odd. We simply never got anyone else’s point of view and, magically, everything that Roselle chose to do or not do was dramatic and suspenseful. Other characters had no depth except for their love, or hatred for, Roselle. I’m not going to return this book because it did keep me listening, but I won’t listen again and will avoid other books by this author unless she writes a travelogue.

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Love this writer

Revisado: 02-22-18

Funny, lighthearted, joyful yet addresses self doubt and worldly problems. I love having my teen son read these books, and as a mature adult, I listen over and over for the witty repartee.the stories are enjoyable, but it is the relationship between the characters that keeps me coming back.

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