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silly fun, campy, enjoyable

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 05-18-24

great silly fun, too much loud screaming crying from one character was its only drawback (a couple of times, okay; over and over, it lost its campy appeal)

please make sequel about Vlad and Frank

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good story but focused on the worst character

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 10-20-22

I really didn't like the white woman main. she was fluffy and didn't listen to others except when it sounded like something she could benefit from. everyone else was interesting and had a good story, but it ended up feeling like a story about how a not-very-smart, charmingly-domineering fluffhead ruined lives. except I think we were supposed to like her.

it was worth the free listen and had a really interesting premise. I wish Sadie were either more likable or more diabolical -- it would have been more interesting.

the racial dynamics were okay, with Sadie being the clueless privileged white fluff and others noticing it occasionally. no arc for her, though. she learned nothing.

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Alexis Hall takes the cake

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 07-30-22

Lovely story, far too true to the pan experience (see what I did there?) including straight cis men thinking their own insecurities are caused by their bi partner, not that I have a personal connection or anything.

Well read; narrator voices are great.

Jennifer might be my favorite awful person ever.

It's predictable in many ways, but for heck's sake, it's a rom-com that would make a delightful stage musical, just like Wodehouse. And the nuggets of silliness are well-distributed (oops, I did it again).

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delightful, witty, Holmes and Watson homage

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-15-22

a delightful romp. no smexy details at all, but there are a few ankles revealed, and the warm touch of a man's fingers on a wrist

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so unaware of its own sexism, you can't look away

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2 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
1 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 12-22-21

There's nothing wrong with the reader.

This is just a setup for a series, not a story. And it's retro AF (not in a good way), despite being set in the distant future. It's a few days in the life of a woman who is as tough as a man, almost; and she can prove she's tough by exercising until she can't stand up while on duty at an active military base where she has command duties. Killing is what she loves to do. She wishes she could be as tough and as good at killing as this group of elite white guys with big muscles who go around doing the impossible without breaking a sweat. At the end of the story there is no surprise at all to learn that she's going to try to be the first woman to join their elite group, if she can do it, which even her military-elite dad thinks is unlikely because girls just can't be boys.

If you're a white supremacist who thinks girls belong in the kitchen making sandwiches but who secretly longs to be dominated by a woman who could break you in half, this series is for you!

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The Curse of Braeburn Castle: Halloween Murders at a Scottish Castle Audiolibro Por Karen Menuhin arte de portada

mediocre; homophobic; classist. excellent narrator

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 06-29-21

First off: The narrator is excellent.

I believe that this disguises the mediocrity off the writing just enough. It's all just a little off. Is Lennox a himbo? A brilliant eccentric? A Bertie Wooster? A Wimsey? Are he and everyone else around him homophobic (yes, they are; but did the author intend that or it is just background radiation from a not very woke author?) Why is it all a Big Reveal Gathering at the end, **again?**
The author uses a word wrongly here and there. Anachronisms are sprinkled here and there. None of this feels intentional. The "bad guy" is effeminate, because of course he is.
I really wanted to like this series.
Lazy writing, or mediocre writing? I don't know and I'm giving up trying to figure it out. Despite the narrator, this series isn't worth the time or credits.

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mediocre; homophobic; classist. excellent narrator

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 06-29-21

First off: The narrator is excellent.

I believe that this disguises the mediocrity off the writing just enough. It's all just a little off. Is Lennox a himbo? A brilliant eccentric? A Bertie Wooster? A Wimsey? Are he and everyone else around him homophobic (yes, they are; but did the author intend that or it is just background radiation from a not very woke author?) Why is it all a Big Reveal Gathering at the end, **again?**
The author uses a word wrongly here and there. Anachronisms are sprinkled here and there. None of this feels intentional. The "bad guy" is effeminate, because of course he is.
I really wanted to like this series.
Lazy writing, or mediocre writing? I don't know and I'm giving up trying to figure it out. Despite the narrator, this series isn't worth the time or credits.

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The Black Cat Murders Audiolibro Por Karen Menuhin arte de portada

Book 2: Major Disappointment (tropes! xenophobia!)

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 06-16-21

Excellent performance by the reader. Variety of voices, expression.

I expect some classism in a 1930s British upper class cozy mystery. Major Lennox seemed likeable enough in book one. In book two, he's arrogant and supremely classist, and Inspector Swift has become an apologist instead of a foil. Homophobia and lazy writing go hand in hand (fops = limp criminals, drag = degenerate). And there's a Noble Savage, too.

Does not live up to the first book at all.

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Book 2: Major Disappointment (tropes! xenophobia!)

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 06-16-21

Excellent performance by the reader. Variety of voices, expression.

I expect some classism in a 1930s British upper class cozy mystery. Major Lennox seemed likeable enough in book one. In book two, he's arrogant and supremely classist, and Inspector Swift has become an apologist instead of a foil. Homophobia and lazy writing go hand in hand (fops = limp criminals, drag = degenerate). And there's a Noble Savage, too.

Does not live up to the first book at all.

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Maisie Dobbs Audiolibro Por Jacqueline Winspear arte de portada

mediocrity or cringe, all the way through

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-27-21

There's nothing overtly wrong with this book, as long as you don't mind overwrought descriptions and mixed metaphors, accepted sexism, unclear time jumps, British classism, an all-white cast of characters, and jingoism. The good guys are all good and the bad guys are all baddies, and everyone is pretty and has scars except for the people who are so scarred they are hold-my-teacup-shocking to look at.

The narration is fine, good voices, with some occasional odd stresses or pauses.

Possibly if you love the Mary Sue Dobbs -- excuse me, Maisie Dobbs -- books already, you'll like this one because it's backstory. I don't know. This was my first and last Maisie Dobbs book. It wasn't terrible.

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