Jeremy A. Dolby

Truth and suffering

Revisado: 12-03-24

This is an astute observation of the “soft totalitarianism” that is permeating lots of Western culture today with excellent parallels drawn to the past. It also reminds Christians that suffering often becomes a pathway to peace and freedom, which is something that some Christians today do not like to acknowledge. Excellent reminder rooted in Truth and historical examples of real people who put their lives on the line for Christ.

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Fun ride

Revisado: 02-21-24

The story was a fun ride and it kept me wanting to hear more about the characters’ lives. The vocal artists’ performances were consistent and easy to listen to except when one of the females consistently pronounced especially as “ekspecially” and when one of the males continually gave a lisp and a valley-girl esque caricature whenever he did female voices—something that I found quite distracting. Overall, I loved it.

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Great story; great narration

Revisado: 02-09-24

I loved the narration overall, but one of the male readers always gave the girl characters a lisp as if he was impersonating a comical caricature of a gay man. That didn’t make any sense as a character choice and was irritating to hear. One other thing was the way a female narrator pronounced the word “especially” incorrectly. She said, “ek-specially”, which was also irritating to listen to, especially since she was supposed to be a genius. Other than that, I loved the story and the narrators, who sounded great on the whole and the story drew me in.

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Fun to hear our old Buffyverse friends!

Revisado: 11-10-23

Loved this! What fun to hear those familiar voices! I sincerely hope they do more!

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Hard to finish

Revisado: 02-18-23

I had to stop listening, not because of the robotic sounding narrator, but because of the graphic carnage strewn throughout the book. It was the first time a book had almost made me vomit—and I’m not easily bothered by blood, etc. it was just the level of twistedness combined with the heartless human and animal torture that got to me. I really wanted to find out if the bad guys were defeated and the victims survived, but I couldn’t bear any more of the horror—it crossed a line for me.

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Excellent

Revisado: 01-14-22

This is an especially good one of Stephen King’s, with a mixture of kids, suspense, frightening occurrences, horror, and hope. One of my new favorites by King.

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It drew me in

Revisado: 01-12-22

The story was excellent, but lacked any sense of hope whatsoever. I kept hoping that at least one of the characters would be rescued, but they all basically died of loneliness. It captured my attention, but made me feel bereft of hope in the end. I understand the point: one can’t escape loneliness when it is self-imposed. But I would have loved the hope of at least one character breaking out of it.

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Great

Revisado: 04-07-21

Again, another success! The performance was excellent as usual, as well. The only reason I gave it less than five stars was that the narrator pronounced the Newfoundland breed of dog like “New Finland”, separating it into what sounded like two words. Otherwise loved it!!!

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Another Success

Revisado: 04-05-21

The writer plus the narrator make a great team. The story is engaging and exciting. The narrator is not only accurate, but an excellent performer with good characterizations. I look forward to reading more in this series!

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Excellent story!

Revisado: 03-17-21

Fun, scary romp! I got mad at the husband for being horror character dumb sometimes 😆. For example, they left their house in broad daylight without needing any lights on and locked their doors and were gone all day. When they came home to a house with all the lights on and their back door swinging open, the husband said, “I think someone’s in there.” I wanted to tell him, “Ya think!? Well thank you, Captain Obvious!” But that didn’t distract from the story—it made it more fun because I was engaged with the characters.

As far as the narrator, he did an excellent job with voices and reading. That said, he really needs his pronunciation of a few things checked. For example, he pronounced the word, “draw”, like DRAWL, which was a bit distracting, but that’s just my pronunciation Nazi coming out. Overall, I’d recommend the book—as I said a fun horror story.

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