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Basic summary of the author’s experience

Revisado: 10-18-23

Summary of the author’s experience with a few tidbits and ideas for thought thrown in.

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The immaturity of these characters was flooring...

Revisado: 08-24-23

Two characters, apparently adults, but more akin to undeveloped children lacking in common sense, emotional development, life experience, interests, language or desires outside of coffee, sex, gruffness, fist fights, cliches, snarling and complete simplicity. Oh and of course the town was called 'Knockemout'. This was 15 hours that could have been 7, or maybe 0. Oh my gosh, this was just a shockingly poor read / listen after all of the good reviews.

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Great story and perfect audio

Revisado: 06-30-23

Great summer listen plus more. I really enjoyed the protagonist, Sam's story of self discovery, intertwined with first love, chemistry, family, friendship and nostalgia. The author did a great job of building interesting, lovable characters in backdrops suiting the scenes. Lovely story.

Whilst I feel like I have read some bit of this story before, it was really captivating and I'm definitely looking forward to reading more by Annabel Monaghan.

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Another great Abby Jiminez book… but could the characters just have a basic conversation a little earlier?

Revisado: 05-01-23

I really enjoy Abby Jiminez’s books, have read all of her published works and would recommend them all. I would put this book in that category too and was really looking forward to its release. It was however the first during which there were parts that dragged.

Briana and Jacob become great friends and it is clear that they are a perfect match together. There are challenges with anxiety, family health issues, past relationships and entertaining family dynamics which are different for Abby Jiminez and form a great story. However, the miscommunication between Briana and Jacob and the overthinking of situations lasts for the entire book, becoming tiresome in parts. Whilst a core part of the story, it drags on at times to the point of frustration.

In saying that, I am still rating ‘Your Truly’ 3.75 stars for the character development, the overall story and Abby’s writing. Looking forward to reading her next book.

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A cute story with strangers learning from each other in unexpected ways

Revisado: 03-21-23

A cute story with strangers learning from each other in unexpected ways. A remotely plausible plot, interesting, evolved characters and enough twists to keep the reader engaged. Recommended for a quick, relatively light read or well executed audible listen. 3.75 rounded up.

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Simple character with no evolution

Revisado: 03-17-23

When Katy loses her mother, she loses her best friend and everything she knows in the world. She chooses this time to ruthlessly discard her husband as she could love no one more than her dead mother and no one could possibly understand her grief; grief which is not really felt in the writing but but rather stated as a form of martyrdom and teenage immaturity.

Katy goes on holiday to Italy, has a series of experiences that her mother would have had earlier in her own life, realises that her mother (shock, horror) had a life beyond her daughter and then grieves about this. It is quite hard to feel for Katy as she is such a simple, small minded character.

I felt that this book was quite in contrast to what I expected and instead of an evolution of the protagonist, moving forward with her life, having new experiences, perhaps exploring Italy; it was an entire book devoted to how much she missed her mother. Additionally and surprisingly, the narration was flat and dry and added to the monotony of the book.

I quite liked ‘In Five Years’ but I’m done after this one.

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Going by the same formula

Revisado: 03-15-23

This was my 3rd Ali Hazelwood book and I loved the 1st 2. Below Zero however, whilst also well written, started to feel more formulaic. There’s a very set theme and formula in Ali’s books and given that she is clearly a talented writer, I wish she would deviate slightly in it between novels, knowing that readings are consuming more than one of her books.

The deviation in Below Zero is that the female protagonist is lacking confidence in her ability to be in a relationship, whilst maintaining her confidence in her academic and work pursuits. The male however is described in the exact same repetitive way as every male protagonist in Hazelwood’s books. Really hoping this evolves in her next full length novel. No more novellas for me.

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Cute read

Revisado: 03-11-23

3.75 stars rounded up. Fairly predictable but another sweet, easy read from Ali Hazelwood, following a similar method to her other novels. Cute, easy to read, nice characters, simple plot, well developed, not vapid, a good option for a nice read in between heavier options.

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Akin to ramblings from a diary

Revisado: 03-09-23

The author Matt Haig has managed to have published what would be, for anyone else, a series of dot notes and ramblings in a diary. This includes favourite songs, reasons why Ferris Bueller was a great movie, movies to see when depressed to uplift one's self (including any Mission Impossible movie because of watching Tom Cruise contort himself), interspersed with tiny bits of 'wisdom' which were similar to quotes that might be found on social media platforms.

Haig writes of the depressed times that he has gone through in the past, almost as justification for the writings in the book and certainly, there may be some wisdom in there for some readers. However, I feel that most of it caters for those with limited attention and looking for quick one liners.

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An exceptional autobiography by a very talented man

Revisado: 02-23-23

What a fantastic book! I’m so glad that I listened to Dave Grohl’s autobiography as an audiobook as it allowed me to hear it in his spoken word, listening to his exact sentiment behind each story which I think added a lot to the book.

Whether in audio or paperback format though, this was an exceptional book by a very talented man. Dave Grohl has a gift with words as well as music and rhythm and it played out in this book. What a life he has had and continues to lead.

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