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Way too wordy

Revisado: 07-14-24

The author spent so much time describing things that I would actually zone out and forget who or what he was talking about by the time he finished his description. I’ve been listening to audiobooks for decades and, while I have definitely come across books I did not like, I have never before had that happen. This could have been an amazing piece of work with the right editing. The narration was okay considering what he’d had to work with.

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Could not finish

Revisado: 02-06-24

Narrator was ok. Made it halfway through and had to stop because the main characters were so irritating.

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Waste of time

Revisado: 08-23-23

If you’ve read JA’s books there is NO new information in this book. Format is choppy, it’s basically a list of book quotes. This author should be glad the novels are not under copyright. Narrator was good, though.

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Either this book is VERY bad, or I’ve outgrown VCA

Revisado: 01-21-23

The writer uses a LOT of superfluous words to tell a very poorly developed story. There’s also a ridiculous amount of plot holes. Because of those plot holes as well as the extremely weak and EXTREMELY annoying main characters, I could not force myself to finish the book. I made it through 4 hours but could not keep going because absolutely NOTHING was happening to advance the plot. The tone of the book (at least the part I could get through) kind of reminded me of My Sweet Audrina—the only VCA classic I disliked—but this book was so much worse. I think if the ghostwriter had spent more time fleshing out the backstory instead of repeating the same details over and over…and over…it could have been marginally better. The narrator was okay, she just spoke a little slowly for my taste so I had to adjust the playback speed. In summary, this audiobook was a big fat DNF, because the older I get the more strongly I feel that life is too short to spend it reading or listening to bad books.

I’m a little disappointed that I cannot return it because Audible no longer accepts returns for books that were not purchased with credits (BTW, what the heck, Audible?!?!). The price of the book was less than it is for one credit, so I used my credit for a more expensive book that will, hopefully, be more entertaining.

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Just okay

Revisado: 11-28-22

I finished it, and it was not bad, but I have zero motivation to purchase the second book. There were several plot holes and very little world building. A positive is that the story (at least in the first book) is benign enough for young teens to listen to, so I can share it with my 14-year-old daughter.

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Dramatized Nonfiction

Revisado: 10-02-22

Can this even be considered nonfiction?? It seems the writers tried to flesh out this story with fictional dialogue. It reads more like a screenplay for a Lifetime movie. All of the actual facts in this book can be found online and will take less than 5 minutes to read.

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WORST. NARRATION. EVER.

Revisado: 07-06-20

I liked the story. It wasn’t fine literature, but rather an enjoyable guilty pleasure. But, the narrator was the absolute worst narrator I’ve ever heard. I’ve been an audiobook lover for 20+ years, I’ve listened to tapes, cds, and I own 800+ Audible titles. Never have I heard a narrator I disliked more. Her pronunciation was absolutely terrible!!! I can usually handle a mispronounced word here or there, but she mispronounced main character names throughout the WHOLE BOOK. I can’t fathom what would make the author and director okay with presenting this recording as a finished product for paying customers.

With that said, this series is available on Kindle Unlimited. If you have time to read it the “old-fashioned” way, do that and SAVE YOUR MONEY OR CREDIT.

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Painfully MEH

Revisado: 04-08-19

This story does not develop as it progresses. Yeah, I know what’s basically going on, but the author does not set up the plot well, which causes me to not really care what happens to the characters. And the sexy scenes are super awkward. I gave up about 60% through. This author’s YA books are much better.

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Decent and Entertaining, but buy book 2 in print..

Revisado: 06-07-17

Yet another YA/NA book with a female main character who makes poor choices. I spent a good part of the book wondering at Tara's lack of common sense. With that said if you don't take the book too seriously it's enjoyable enough, and I was surprised by the ending.

If you do like this book enough to buy book two, I recommend you buy BOOK 2 in print instead of audio OR you download the audio sample first. The reader of book two is different and I found her voice so irritating that I returned the audiobook.

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Enjoyable, despite the narration

Revisado: 10-31-16

The story was light and fun--everything I could want in a YA listen. I don't want to give away any of the finale's plot, but I do want to point out that the reader was...well...not great. Actually she was okay until she had to do a voice or accent. Her pace, enunciation, and pronunciation were great, but all of her male characters sounded like a four year old trying to mimic her dad, and most of the aliens and all of the foreigners had bad French-ish accents. Despite this, I truly enjoyed this series and recommend it for those who enjoy fun sci-fi "clean" romance.

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