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Awful Narration

Revisado: 10-13-24

The narrator was incredibly hard to get over. The sisters who grew up in the same home under the same parents somehow have different accents. It seems like she started to attempt a British accent for one, realized she couldn’t do it, and switched it up to something totally unrecognizable. Other than that the story is fine. There are quite a few inconsistencies, and convenient plot points. SPOILER AHEAD she finds out all the selected tributes are fated to die, she never even makes mention of her sister even though she knows Sophia was selected, then the tributes die but she never once thinks about what that means for the fate of her sister? The sister she traded her life for? Dumb. He fights her repeatedly about switching places with Sophia because “he doesn’t make that decision” just to be like nah it’s cool. Why even bother with the back and forth. It didn’t create any extra tension in my opinion. It’s just fine.

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Awful Narrator

Revisado: 08-22-23

Please re record. She’s awful. 0 inflection. 0 emotion. She’s so dull. She ruins the story.

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Went downhill quickly

Revisado: 06-26-23

“Who would have thought breaking you would be so easy?” sums it all up. The author spent so much time building her up as the best, stealthiest, deadliest assassin, but she falls apart when put to the test, EVERY TIME. I’m so sick of her falling to her knees and crying. Also how do the best, most skilled assassins keep getting simply caught? Used as leverage by the same person MULTIPLE times. Could have been so good. The main character can’t get out of her own way, she’s deliberately obtuse.

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Completely different parts then the written book.

Revisado: 12-08-21

In the written book she admits to telling Sareem about her magic, which did happen in the first book and was a big part of it. Roan says that's the reason he was killed. In the audio version she says she didn't tell them and she planned to tell them at the same time??? The new narrator is terrible, pronounces all the names differently and does vastly different and terrible voices compared to the previous narrator. You can hardly tell who's speaking to who.

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boring and monotonous

Revisado: 11-06-21

Moves very slow. No chemistry between characters. Narrator has a monotone voice and never changes with emotional moments. Very dull.

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Don't let the cover art fool you

Revisado: 05-25-21

This book was recommended to me through the algorithm. On the surface it looks good, the cover, the description, the 4 star review, BUT it's a trick. The dialogue is childish. The story seems like it could have been good but they rush all the relationships. The main character never questioned her situation, was just like cool, no worries, I'll do what you strangers tell me to do, risking my life all while you treat me like a servant. Not to mention the narrator always sounds uncertain and her tone never changes. Its awkward.

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long and boring

Revisado: 05-24-21

lots of unnecessary details and long drawn out unnecessary scenes. even the action parts were ultimately anticlimactic, wrapped up in a too pretty packaged ending. the most interesting parts were mira and tamsin, and while I understand the author wanted to give them their own books I cant help but think all 3 books should have been combined and hours of monotony cut out to make 1 interesting book instead of 3 uninteresting ones.

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narrator is amazing

Revisado: 02-09-21

The way he uses his voice to match the emotion of the text is so amazing. It makes it the story which is so so good that much better.

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6 chapters in and I'm laughing out loud

Revisado: 09-18-20

"I will fucking crush your heads" she is hilarious. Her internal monologue is so funny, and what comes out of her mouth is even better

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Pretty boring, but I came this far.

Revisado: 06-20-20

The romance was stale and repetitive. Had some feels at the end. Not enough action and displays of power. Kind of a lame loophole at the end.

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