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Wealth porn

Revisado: 09-04-22

Wealth porn combined w rescue fantasies masquerading as “independent woman finds true love.” Add in a few hackneyed “he gazed into her eyes as his strong lean hands etc etc “ and u get the picture. I like a bit of escapist chick lit, but this gives the genre a bad name

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Interesting book,awful narrator

Revisado: 05-19-21

This narrator should stick to American books. Her English accents are excruciating and she hasn’t done her homework:making someone from Devon sound like a cockney is like giving a southern bell a

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Unusually nuanced

Revisado: 09-15-19

Complex and sensational subject matter treated quite subtly and v well read. Good characters and a real twist at the end

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Idiotic fantasy nonsense

Revisado: 06-27-19

Over-written under plotted pseudo romantic good guy bad guy strong man sweeps woman off feet rubbish

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A dog’s breakfast of a book

Revisado: 03-08-19

Too many characters and motivations, not to mention red herrings, overblown prose, and downright strange English (eg ‘he reneged against every rule in the cosmos ‘.). The way the killer is finally exposed is a complete cop-out: seems the writer had to end it somehow. Not worth the time.

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unnecessarily gruesome, awful narrator

Revisado: 08-29-17

Tho this book depicts a disturbed psychopathic killer, it provides a degree of gruesome detail far beyond what's needed to drive the plot or characterisation. The book drags on and on, not helped by a narrator who reads it like a shopping list with an appalling 'British' accent. An auditory ordeal

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appalling narrator

Revisado: 10-20-15

story is average historical romance: fine to pass the time while doing something else. Narrator, however, is so grating that I may abandon this. As other readers have said, he reads in a kind of patronising chant (i never knew a chanting voice could be patronising,...but it can!) Also, the cornish accent slides away into a kind of irish american. That would be bearable, were it not for the 'chanting', which ruins any possibility of enjoying, rather than enduring, this book.

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good book,poor narrator

Revisado: 05-26-15

narrator chants rather than reads. she's fine when reading dialogue, appalling when reading narration. the narration pulses in uniform chanted phrases, with no appropriate emphases or intonation. i will avoid this narrator in future: sounds like a reasonable actress who doesn't know how to read a book

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Informative, but...

Revisado: 01-27-15

There's some interesting information in this book, including the history of the concept of neuroplasticity, its relationship to psychoanalysis, and the general reluctance of the medical establishment to accept the overturning of established, but wrong, ideas. Unfortunately, this is vitiated by the way in which the author 'plugs' specific establishments which treat conditions (eg stroke, learning disabiLities) based on the use of neuroplasticity. This turns much of the book into an infomercial, complete with glowing anecdotes. Even if true, this feels inappropriate, and isn't what I paid for!

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Avoid this narrator

Revisado: 04-18-14

The story is complelling in its picture of a sociopathic opportunist who manipulates everyone in her path, including her children. The narration, however, is awful: the narrator chants rather than reads, and portrays the main character (who is in her mid-late thirties) with the accent and intonation of a demented valley girl. Very grating, and spoils what would have otherwise been a very good book

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