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James Dommek Jr. is a force

Revisado: 11-29-19

This is my favorite audible original of all time. I learned so much while constantly enthralled.

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Excellent

Revisado: 06-06-19

I loved this story- it was intricate and warm and real, and in the end, scary.

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Has this author met a 13 year old?

Revisado: 06-06-19

The tone of this is just so wrong. I bet it reads far better than it sounds out loud. And that's the fundamental problem; this is framed as a video blog, and it is not even slightly conversational. Nobody talks like this, especially a 13 year old girl, no matter how intelligent. As a former gifted child and bookworm myself, I never had any sense of recognition or truth. Even making the characters 15 would have been helpful, but it wouldn't have fully fixed the issue. There is an enormous difference between writing a monologue, and whatever this is. I gave it two stars because I'll finish it.

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meh

Revisado: 11-05-18

The mystery was not mysterious. I got seriously impatient with everyone in the novel. She broadcasts every clue, but the main character dismisses them all.

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Vampires Ruin Everything.

Revisado: 07-29-15

I should have liked this book. I should have loved this book. Alchemy, history, magic, complicated back stories. The narration was just lovely. It was well researched.

But I didn't care about the main characters. Actually, I didn't care about the main characters caring about each other. The romance wasn't earned. I like romance and romance novels, so there's no problem there. I just want to want the main characters to get together in an organic way that feels worth it, despite the difficulties. I gave up halfway through the second novel in this series and returned it. I could no longer endure being told in various ways how much the main characters were in love and how all the deaths their love would cause are worth it because True Love. Love, love, love. Their love may be alchemical- it would have to be- there's certainly no REAL chemistry involved.

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This is the one that made me give up.

Revisado: 07-29-15

I rather enjoyed the first three books in this series. I held on, hoping for more character development and because I was curious about the central mystery of Bradley's wife. However, number five was a terribly plotted mystery, needlessly gruesome, and it repeated several twists and tropes she'd employed in earlier novels. Everyone is either very bad or very good. There is no nuance. I'm not sure why I went for the sixth, I had to give up after four chapters.

I might have kept going anyway, but the narrator trying to do a Scottish dialect completely killed it. Has she ever heard a Scot in her life? Far better not to attempt it at all! I shut it down after the fifth haggis joke. No.

Also, by this book, I was ready to scream every time anyone in the book chuckled. The combination of the overuse of the phrase, "Mary chuckled" and the unvarying way the narrator delivers it turned into fingernails on chalkboard.

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Horrifyingly Racist.

Revisado: 11-07-14

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

Racist jerks would enjoy this book. I understand it was written in 1954, but I don't understand how this was ever acceptable in a scholarly work.

Has The White and the Gold turned you off from other books in this genre?

I will never ever read anything by this author again.

What three words best describe Richard Matthews’s performance?

It's so horrible to hear this stuff said out loud. I wonder if he washed his mouth out with soap after every recording session.

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

I'm 100% certain this book is more racist toward the First Nations than the explorers it covers from the 17th century. I am absolutely sure that Champlain would have punched this guy in the face if he read this drivel.

Any additional comments?

Skip this. If you're obsessed with the New France period of Canadian history, find another resource, unless you love flowery descriptions of how stupid, dirty, backward and lice ridden the First Nations are. Even when it has nothing to do with the subject at hand, this utter ass has to throw in horrible slurs. It's never, "The Algonquin lived in that area." It's always, "The Algonquin, a gross and licentious people, lived in that area."

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