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Informative, but rather boring

Revisado: 08-28-17

This is read poorly, but written well. It's just heavy on the medical and difficult to slog through. The Appendix (luckily) is concise and helps us make protective lifestyle choices.

It's an encouraging treatise for those of us afraid of becoming ill with Dementia, giving the illusion of control. Whether it is truth, we don't yet know.

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The Imaginator of the Century

Revisado: 08-15-17

Blake Crouch has a mind like no other. He is a ground breaker in the way Roddenberry was a ground breaker, boldly going where no one has gone before. I dare you to guess where his story is going.

He is the Imaginator of the Century.

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I can't believe I actually paid for this

Revisado: 12-12-16

I read other reviews for this author, and I can't believe any mystery buff would think he is good. He is NOT a good writer. No suspense to speak of, too much narrative, characters are flat and the reader has no clues.

On top of that, the narrator is truly terrible. If I could get a refund, I would. Don't pay for this drivel.

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Sing-song Narration

Revisado: 11-26-15

I don't know what it is with this narrator. She proves with the dialogue that she can act, but the sing-song nature of the cadence got to me and I had to stop reading. I never got to the storyline.

I listened to the first book of the series and the mystery was interesting so I didn't just stop when the cadence got to me. It grated on my nerves, but I listened to the whole book. I started listening to this book, rather hoping the narrator was changed. Sadly, it wasn't, so I returned the book.

Maybe it was the director who caused this, but no matter whose fault it was, the narration let the author down. I suggest the publisher make a change.

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Disappointing

Revisado: 09-01-15

I've followed this series for years, and I was looking forward to this book. I was disappointed. There was little tension, very little mystery and a totally unsatisfactory ending. Save your money. Sue, maybe you need to retire. You're rich enough already.

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A disapointment

Revisado: 01-08-15

Having read the first book in the series and enjoyed it, I decided to try #2. It was a mistake. I couldn't believe the same person authored both books. Too many gratuitous sex scenes totally unnecessary to the story line (which I hastened to skip). No mystery as to who the bad guys were. The transparent addition of red herring male characters, all of whom "desired" the heroine ad nauseam. I listened all the way to the end, hoping for redemption, but there was none. Jo Robertson has lost a reader.

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Unrelenting - bad guys always win

Revisado: 12-30-14

I've listened to and read a lot of Blake and really liked his other work, but I couldn't keep listening to this one. There has to be hope for the protagonist. This is unrelenting. I slogged through the first two books, but when the third had the bad guy win from the outset, I just couldn't make myself continue. It was just too depressing. Reason tells me that the good guys will win at the end of this trilogy, but it isn't worth the bad feelings to get to the end.

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This book had a garbled section in chapter 31

Revisado: 11-07-14

I went back over and over to try to understand the story. Although the words were overlapped for only a short time, it was still disappointing. I urge somebody to fix the glitch.

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For teenagers only

Revisado: 07-23-14

What would have made Spying in High Heels better?

a storyline

Has Spying in High Heels turned you off from other books in this genre?

no, just this author

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Caroline Shaffer?

don't know

What character would you cut from Spying in High Heels?

all of them

Any additional comments?

unless you're a teenager pretending to be 30 and only want stream of consciousness egotistical drivel from the "ME" generation, don't bother to even start this book.

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Sing-song delivery is killing me!

Revisado: 06-28-14

Would you try another book from Patricia Cornwell and/or Kate Reading?

Kate Reading can't read!

What was most disappointing about Patricia Cornwell’s story?

I love Cornwell's books, but can't continue listening to the reader.

Would you be willing to try another one of Kate Reading’s performances?

NO!

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

The book is probably good.

Any additional comments?

I'd like to get a refund.

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