Ruovas

Brave and funny. Sad and hopeful.

Revisado: 01-12-23

Karen's may be horrified and offended by the title and I'm not sure Jenette herself would be comfortable being called brave, but brave she is nevertheless. She often has the sense of humor that came out in her iCarly character and certainly talks just as fast. I'm pretty sure the recording length of the book would have been 60 to 90 minutes longer had anyone else read it, but it's pure Jenette and makes the book as authentic to herself as she is still learning to be. She is open and honest about abuse and disorders that were absolutely from her mom but still tells of her love for her mom.

We all get character traits, abuse, dysfunction and habits from our parents and we pass some of it on to our own children no matter how hard we try to make it end with us, with our generation. Jenette's story is a brave and funny, sad and hopeful, telling of her journey.

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The story made me persevere through the narrator

Revisado: 05-14-21

I've been listening since book one. At the end of that book I did Not intend to continue because the narrator was so incredibly horrid. However, the story brought me back after only a couple weeks and Thank God, the narrator had improved a bit. She's still nowhere near good but the storyline keeps me coming back.

I can't wait to see what happens in the relations between Delphi and the rest of the world, what they do with the rebel Paraxeans and just where the hell that device disappeared to!

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Pretty good story.

Revisado: 05-06-21

Out of the hundreds of audible books I've listened to, I have NEVER heard a worse human narrator. It's very nearly as bad as just having a computer voice read it to you. I want to continue the series but I just can't. It's torturous. Such a pity, because it's a solid story.

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Deep introspection presented in a hilarious way

Revisado: 04-26-21

The main character spouts a diatribe against several of the most hated people in her life while on vacation in a place that seems to represent the real and perceived failures in her life. In the end it becomes deeply introspective. All of this weighty material is presented with wit and banter that leaves you laughing, or at least smiling to yourself, all the way through! Christina Applegate is the perfect performer for this writing!!

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Good story

Revisado: 04-26-21

The story was as good as any by Patricia Rice. it's the narrator who very nearly ruined the whole book. I'll be watching for and avoiding any books performed by Ms. Kingsolving in the future.

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interesting premise, annoying narrator

Revisado: 12-14-20

Just my opinion but the narrator's different voices can sound like a slightly deeper Betty Boop. Her normal voice is fine. Storyline has an interesting, if far fetched, premise. But if you like Sci-fi and fantasy, aren't you always reading something pretty far fetched? I'll definitely read the next book when it comes out.

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Could have been a decent book

Revisado: 11-22-20

The story is good, but the writing sounds like one of the bad harlequin romances I read when I was 12. And the narrator! I don't often give up on a book, but her southern "accent" is horrid and her voice is monotone. I'm only giving it 2 stars because it COULD have been good.

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Decent story but Not epic, annoying narrator

Revisado: 11-20-20

Interesting story but I agree with the reviewer who said the main character starts out a 16 yr old wanting to grow into a mature woman and ends with her being barely 17, completely in love (even lost her virginity) and contemplating marriage. As a story it and the characters work but it needed to be spaced over a couple of books, at least. However, the narrator's voice is perfect for a 16 yr old girl and therein lies the problem. It totally sucks for male voices and for the supposedly deep gruff voices of the first alien race they meet. Hard to listen to at points.

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A good fun read with the kind of ending I like

Revisado: 08-04-20

The narrator is definitely not the best at accents, but he's got a good voice and differentiates the characters. It's not deep reading if that's what you're looking. for but it is a fun story with enough intrigue to make it interesting.

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Not exactly a romance, per se.

Revisado: 08-02-20

More of an existential examination of relationships through past lives than a feel good romance story. And a but creepy.

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