Kat

So rich

Revisado: 02-24-23

I am impressed at how rich the characters are and how really emotional the story can be. The vocal performance was one of the best I’ve heard. I read this one because my family ran from the Bolsheviks to America and this was a creative way to explore that history.

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Objectively Bad

Revisado: 06-02-21

I’ll preface this by saying I have a background as a psych RN. This book is terrible. It has some good ideas for thought, but states it doesn’t use the DSM because codependency isn’t a disorder. Ok, that’s fine. It goes on to say that people with personality disorders made the conscious choice to have a personality disorder and healthy people simply chose not to. (That’s patently false.) It completely overlooks the role of trauma in behaviors. It addresses codependency has a history of trauma but then states that people who can’t speak up for themselves simply have a “closed throat chakra”. Sir, no. It then goes on to try to sell essential oil blends for relationship healing. Because this book can’t separate selling homeopathy, essential oils, and other woowoo while discrediting the actual trauma people suffer I cannot recommend this book.

In addition to that, the narration is abysmal. The narrator is very staccato and puts entirely the wrong emphasis in the sentence. So he’ll use a tone of voice for ending a sentence in the middle of a sentence, mispronunciation, awkward breaths taken in the wrong flow. It comes across as very amateur and makes the book sound like a word salad. It doesn’t help that the actual writing is so heavily steeped in flowery language and metaphors you have to significantly struggle to make sense of what’s being said. It’s four hours of word salad.

Don’t waste your money.

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A little fatphobic

Revisado: 12-03-20

There were some scenes in the story that had fat phobia. And it was not done well. Other than that, it was an excellent story. However, I cautioned against a great deal of domestic violence, suicide, gaslighting, and other potential trigger warnings.

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Good Story, Grating Narration

Revisado: 09-02-20

I think the story is nice and even though I’m not into bicycles or sports or riding it managed to keep me interested the whole way through. But the narrator. Her voice sounded like a gps navigation. Most of the time it’s very flat and she sounds bored and like she doesn’t like the book. I appreciate her effort to do accents, and I’m no expert on accents, but they all sounded the same to me. The Rhineland accent sounded like the same as the Arabic character. But also most of the male characters sounded exactly the same. I appreciate that she’s not able to drop her voice range (or raise it) for full effect.... but it ended up being that it didn’t sound very varied and it’d take me several minutes every time I’d pick the book back up to adjust to the Siri voice.

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