The Village Witch

Wonderful story

Revisado: 12-12-24

This quiet yet powerful novel seems perfectly crafted, the ending hopeful yet not sentimental. Van Booy did a great job with making all the characters both diverse and believable, while the narrator’s skilled interpretation is flawless. Highly recommended!

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Excellent Novel

Revisado: 07-24-24

Pulley’s characters are intriguing and empathetic, the world building impressive, and the intricate mechanical devices wondrously inventive. Looking forward to the next volume in the series!

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Not enjoyable

Revisado: 04-04-24

Unbelievable characters, behavior, and motivations; gratuitous violence that somehow still managed to seem unrealistic; annoying narration, absolutely riddled with confusing grammatical errors. Hard to believe an editor ever looked at this.

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Great story and narrator

Revisado: 12-16-23

I love the dry humor of these novels and the narrative irony in Christopher’s sometimes clueless first person viewpoint. Also, actor George Blagdon is one of the best audiobook narrators ever. Highly recommended!

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Did this manuscript ever get edited?

Revisado: 12-15-23

The awkwardly flowery (and often grammatically incorrect) language gets very distracting, and the ‘twist’ was extremely predictable. The narrator is all right, but mispronounces words or uses the wrong intonations frequently. It was reasonably entertaining, but nothing special.

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Great narrator, good memoir

Revisado: 08-28-23

I listened to this over the course of a week, and was impressed by both story and narrator. I’ve read a number of memoirs set in the islands but this one seemed to really capture a vivid sense of place for the reader. Recommended!

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Excellent Memoir

Revisado: 06-10-23

The author uses ocean imagery and creatures of the sea to fantastic effect as metaphors for their experiences in this well crafted coming of age story. Highly recommended!

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Best Nonfiction Book I’ve Read This Year

Revisado: 11-10-22

Pastoral Song vividly and lyrically relays the history of two farms and the lives of the people who’ve cared for them over several generations. But it’s much more than a memoir or a family history, as the author slowly but surely makes an airtight case naming who is killing off the land: corporate farming, chemicals that sterilize the exhausted over-farmed fields, forcing farmers — already in huge debt from buying ever more expensive machinery -/ to pour other chemicals made by other corporations onto the soil and crops we eat. Yet it’s not a call to abandon all modern technology; rather a plea to farm more wisely and sustainably by not killing off all the natural things — birds, insects, soil bacteria, earthworms — and adding back some of the old methods that made farms’ livestock and produce healthy, abundant, and vigorous without such drastic and ultimately doomed measures.

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Incredible and Complex Novel

Revisado: 05-13-22

I haven’t yet read this author’s previous novel, but if it’s half as well done as this one I’ll be ordering it directly. The portrayal of the Rom characters — of all the characters, really — was continually vivid, convincing, and complex. Everyone flawed, interesting, and fully human. The plot builds slowly but surely to more and more surprising events and revelations. A great read, well crafted.

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Incredible Rendition of the Trojan War and Aftermath

Revisado: 07-14-21

I was riveted by Haynes’ imaginative and fulsome version in which a pissed off Calliope — rudely not even named as his muse by Homer — finally gives voices and page time to all the women who also fought and struggled through that 20 year period their due. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. I only wish I had written it! Brava, Ms. Haynes.

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