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Stilted Performance of a Book without Direction

Revisado: 03-29-21

The dialogue is very stilted and overly detailed. The narrator is horrible with accents and lacks any sense of the story. I gave up a third of the way in when I had no idea where the story was going and why I had to listen to all the wandering of the author.

Don't waste your time.

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Wimpering narration ruined it!

Revisado: 02-25-20

I gave up on this after a few hours. The narrator has a non-stop whispery, wimpering voice that was just too much to listen to. The story was ok though it dragged a little bit, or maybe the narration just made it seem that way.

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Really Annoying Lead Character In a Too Long Story

Revisado: 12-06-19

The lead character, Scott Brody, is arrogant, annoying, and an unbelievable wise-ass. He made the story into a joke with his unfiltered comments in totally inappropriate situations. Even Scott Brick, one of my absolute favorite narrators, had trouble and seemed annoying as the voice of Brody. If this is the start of a series, for me it is also the end. It was way too long, too preachy, and, had it not been for Miami traffic, I would have given up at several points.

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Young Adult Novel with Obnoxious Lead Character

Revisado: 10-23-19

I could not get beyond 30 minutes of this book. It reads like a young adult novel with an obnoxious heroine. The terminology is a sad attempt to use the proper jargon - it does not succeed. I sent it back.

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Pendergast Gets a Partner

Revisado: 02-27-19

Pendergast has been assigned a partner to keep him in line. Good luck with that! Actually, it provides some good fun to follow through the heat of Miami. Pendergast's take on Miami is spot on - the heat, the traffic, the inhabitants, etc. I found this to be a fun adventure, a just-complicated-enough mystery, and the usual marvelous narration. I recommend this to all Pendergast fans

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I gave up

Revisado: 02-27-19

This story started out with a good premise, but it meandered back and forth in the present and the past and never seemed to get anywhere. Lots of chatter, little point. I gave up halfway through. Oh, the narrator was pretty good, not the story.

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Brassy Narration Did Not Sit Well

Revisado: 06-12-18

The story was ok, nothing exciting, but the narration was a problem. Frequently, the narrator would begin sentences with a loud, brassy, nasal few words that were just out of place, ruining the flow of the story. This happened regularly throughout the story. This is a shame, because other than these frequent phrases, the narration was not bad.

Maybe a story better read than heard.

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Two Cuba's - Yesterday & Today

Revisado: 02-24-18

My wife is from Cuba and I live near Miami, so I know its history well. The then-and-now story is well developed but narrated with minimal emotion, hardly how a Cuban would tell it. Nonetheless, the history is accurate and the state of the island today is spot on. Though two narrators are used, it is hard to distinguish one from the other. My biggest complaint is that Cuban names of people and places are spoken with a Spanish pronunciation, although the narration is in perfect English. So Cuba becomes Koobah and location names are hard to understand. For me, it was a distraction, and it is not how I hear Cubans in Miami speak English. Other than that, the story will draw you in, teach you about a magic place and the people who love it, and paint a stark picture of how Cuba exchanged one despot for an even worse one.

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Excellent Sequel!

Revisado: 02-15-18

To appreciate this book, you need to have listened to the first book in the series, Stillhouse Lake. This is an exciting, fast-paced sequel that will keep your interest every step of the way. You will fear for the characters, love the characters, and then hate them, only to love them again. A great use of a credit!

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Gave up 2/3 of the way through

Revisado: 11-27-17

This started out fine, but 2/3 of the way through, I gave up. The narration was fine at the start but became annoying from the smart-ass comments and the general annoying character telling the tale. As for the story, it turned into one long caper book and I felt like the science was just thrown in because it worked in the Martian - it does not here. It was there just to be there.

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