Lindsay

SO GOOD

Revisado: 12-03-24

What initially drew me in was how funny the lead character was & honestly i would have loved this book even if that was the only thing it had going for it… but it was not. This was an amazing story, great dialogue, beautiful world building that I could visualize but wasn’t overly intense, lots of fun twists to the plot that weren’t predictable, and the narrator added the exact right personality to the character… the whole experience was magical. I just finished it and want to read it all over again.

I’m just disappointed that this is the only novel currently on audible by this author, I will pick up their next one without question, I’m officially a fan :)

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True to the show w/additional insights

Revisado: 09-23-24

I wasn’t ready to be done with the show after season 1, currently waiting for season 2 & decided to listen to this thinking it would probably be decent or ok… I was shocked, it was actually really good lol. They didn’t deviate from the show at all, including a lot of the dialogue, but putting it in book form gave them the opportunity to show and tell us what Wednesday was thinking, there were several great quotes that weren’t in the show & overall it was just really well done. I’m hoping they’ll novelize all subsequent seasons :)

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It’s…Not good

Revisado: 10-15-23

Yes, this book is verrrry slow (both the plot and the narration), but that wasn’t the biggest issue.

The first 40 or so chapters seemed slow because the author drew out the story by having every character act in a way that isn’t normal human behavior. Do people keep secrets? Of course. Do people all living in the same small island town not even ASK each other direct questions for 15 yrs and walk around full time wondering what the answers to those questions are??? No… they do not. Literally 40 chapters of being stuck in a loop of the same silly thoughts in the heads of people who could walk down the street and have the answer in 3 seconds, which they finally do & that conflict is resolved instantly.

Other annoying issues: constantly talking about the little habits ppl have as a way to convey how well these ppl know each other but the habits are stupid things, far too specific and unrealistic, and between the lack of subtlety and the sheer amount this is done, it just doesn’t work. Also, the woman born blind who is the sole owner of the magic book she’s never been able to read but knows and remembers everything in it including where in the book certain spells are 🤨, even tho these people really don’t seems to do magic much at all…. The magic element is odd in general, both under-demonstrated and way overplayed in implication, magic is blamed for everything but no one ever actually does it or sees it. The characters are one dimensional, not relatable and frankly unlikeable, every last one of them. And jumping around to all different POV’s and timeframes is disorienting in a way that doesn’t work. This could have been a really interesting story but it was poorly executed.

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Not as advertised

Revisado: 04-06-22

I heard a podcast that featured the author & when she was promoting this book she made it sound like something it’s not. I was expecting more about burnout and how to deal with it, symptoms, etc…. But this was a memoir, and quite a whiny one at that. I got 1/3 through it and almost the entire thing was talking about eating disorders… not always in a helpful way. As someone with a history of eating disorders, I didn’t find it even remotely helpful to listen to chapter after chapter of this, diving back into a first person view of what happens psychologically during disordered eating. Additionally a LOT of information on dental issues, which I’ve also had….. but nothing helpful, not even in the way that you sometimes feel camaraderie when someone has gone through the same thing. This was just, honestly, whining. And it sounds like she’s had a tough life, but I didn’t buy the book to hear every detail of someone’s childhood psychological traumas. It was too much and not enough at the same time, I couldn’t get through it.

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Not what I thought it would be

Revisado: 01-28-18

I learned nothing new and Patterson somehow managed to take a fascinating story and reduce me to tears of boredom reading it. I stopped and returned it 2/3 of the way through because if I had to endure the desperately white narrator reading one more text between Aaron and one of "his boys" I was afraid my eyes would roll so far back into my head I'd lose them forever 🙄

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Interesting but scattered

Revisado: 09-02-17

I heard Alyssa speak on Pod Save America recently and thought she sounded very intelligent, insightful and interesting. I guess with that in mind this book was nothing like I'd imagined it would be.

It strikes me as odd that someone organized enough to plan a president's schedule would write a book so meandering and non-linear. The smaller anecdotes are interesting and I enjoy her sense of humor, but in general I was completely lost most of the time. Is this part happening while she's working for Kerry, Senator Obama, or President Obama? How did the last part of the book lead into the this part, did I miss something?

Some parts seem written like an advice book while others almost like a children's story, over-explained and using oddly simplistic language. The narration was very stiff and seemed more to detract from the content than add to it.

Overall not what I expected

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