Michelle

Narrator ruined this

Revisado: 12-23-24

I almost stopped this book and never looked back based on the narration, especially chapter 2. The piercing voice she depicted as toddler Jessica, along with the dramatic acting out of her pauses and whining about made my ears bleed. Shame because I really like Jeneva Rose and have been enjoying the Kimberley King storyline. Please find a new narrator to continue the series!

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Just okay

Revisado: 12-20-24

I'm a fan of Freida McFadden, but this one just didn't hit for me. Kind of slow moving and predictable.

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Weird Narration

Revisado: 11-30-24

The narration really took away from the story because it was so terrible. Narrator had a breathy, raspy voice, and when reading the parts of Nick, who was supposed to be in his mid 30s, she made him sound like he was about 80 years old with weird vocal inflections. Think elderly Jimmy Stewart. If I was Freida, I would have had this renarrated.

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Disappointing

Revisado: 11-10-23

This was not analytical in the slightest. It felt like material to be used if you were tasked with explaining Durkheim to 10 year olds. Structurally, it was highly segmented, and each segment gave a recap of the previous one, so each new segment ended up having maybe 3 minutes of original content. Narration was excellent, though.

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Narration Distracted From Story

Revisado: 08-07-23

Mena's voice was so monotone and slow it sounded like she was half asleep and struggling to get her words out. The story held my interest, and I feel for her struggles, however, it got a little tiresome hearing about her sobbing all the time. And the "near death experience" was blown way out of proportion.

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Good Listen, So-so Performance

Revisado: 06-27-23

This was a nice listen and held my interest, but I have to say the performance was a little slow and childlike which was a bit annoying. Other reviewers say that it was tear jerking, but I didn't find that to be true. It was just an easy listen.

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Really Good Content

Revisado: 04-10-23

This was so well done! Paris is very bright and lived through so much. Her experiences in Provo were haunting. I couldn't stop listening.

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Good book that the narrator RUINED

Revisado: 03-01-23

I am appalled at the narrator's choice to use racist accents when narrating the parts of the non white patients. If the patient was male it is fine to lower the reading voice to create a bit of distinction (assuming the male has a lower voice than the therapist), however, adding the slow affect, pauses, and accents when speaking was just insulting. very disappointed. content was amazing, just hard to focus on when you're angry the whole time.

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Not what I hoped for

Revisado: 01-16-23

This book fell flat for me. It wasn't so much of a memoir as...well, I don't know how to describe it. There seemed to be a lot of reading lists. It didn't flow as a story the way an audiobook should. Perhaps it would have hit differently if I read the hard copy. A particularly low moment of the book was when Ana was recounting a lengthy conversation with a male friend in chapter 31. Back and forth for several minutes it was "And then I said, and then he said, and then I was like, and then he was like" over and over again. I think Ana is a funny and talented actress, but unfortunately this book is not one of her better works.

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Great Story, Over Performed

Revisado: 08-29-22

I really did enjoy the content of this book, but it was just way too theatrical in its narration. I like vocal inflection and emotion in narration but Molly was just way over the top. I kept thinking she was building up to something huge, but no, she was just describing how great it was when her dad demeaned cashiers and tried to swindle people. I was hoping at some point she or her father had realized how nasty he was in his young days as her father, but she described it gleefully. Kind of strange not to at least mention that she realizes now what he did was wrong. Instead, she celebrated it.

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