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Good story, good narration

Revisado: 03-20-25

I read thru all available Will Trent books and wanted to start them all over again so went for the audiobooks so I could listen while doing other things. Michael Kramer does a great job at the narration. Yeah, maybe his 'southern' accent is a bit corny but it's not bad. He's got a very Joe Friday voice that went perfectly with the story. Why they changed narrators for the others to Kathleen Early is a mystery, she SO doesn't fit and her attempts at 'voices' are annoying. Anyway, that's more of a review for the following audibles, Triptych is great, highly recommend. Just be warned to not like it TOO much cause you'll want the rest and the narration isn't as good.

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Good and not so good

Revisado: 10-11-22

There are parts of the story that are really good and parts that really aren't.

I started out thinking 'ok, great, this is a really good story', then out of nowhere I hit a pothole. Then the story got good again, then another pothole. It was really kind of frustrating to be honest. I am not the one to put down a book once started. I mean it has to be absolutely terrible for me to not finish. I didn't put Horns down but I considered it. Multiple times. It could stand to lose a good 5hrs of just absolute crap that adds nothing to the story. Also, it moves between time with no notice or note of any kind and you are a good couple of paragraphs in before you can tell you're in a flashback.

I didn't find Ig to be a particularly sympathetic character. He was alternately a jerk and a doormat, not really what I'm looking for in a protagonist. It is a relatively dark book but would have liked at least one of the MC's to be more likeable.

It seems a lot of the reviews are about how terrible it is that it deals with dark material or it being about something satanic or whatever. Read the description of the book before you buy it and if that's not what you're looking for, don't buy the book. It's listed as a horror book, if you don't want a horror book, again, don't buy Horns.

Overall, I didn't hate the book, there were parts of it where I couldn't wait to see what happened next and there were parts of it I was just ready to be done with it. I think the good parts outweighed the bad overall. Will I listen to it again and again, probably not. Would I recommend it to a friend, maybe but not strongly.

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Straight Up Textbook - No Story

Revisado: 02-02-21

I swear, I read the description but still thought there would be SOME story in this book. There isn't. It's a straight textbook and as an audio book it doesn't really work. Eddie Redmayne is a excellent reader, great voice and cadence. I just really wanted at least a bit of story, how he came across something or whatever.

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Terrible - Don't waste your money

Revisado: 11-14-20

This review isn't about the horror that was the end of Sylvia Likens life but about the way it's told in this book.

To start you have 20min, 3 very short chapter of the author talking about this book. TBH I didn't listen to it all, what I heard of it was useless and uninteresting. Then you start the 'story' with John Glouchevitch who has a very halting way of narration in addition to a tone that I'm sure he meant to sound sympathetic but the more I listened the more annoying and disingenuous it sounded. A bit like Captain James T Kirk if you know what I mean.

I struggled getting thru 5 chapters, well, technically 2 since I skipped the fluff. This writing is part conjecture and part storytelling. The mix is done badly and doesn't flow well at all. It's a hard enough story to listen to or know without it being mangled so badly.

I just want to save anyone I can from waiting a credit or money on this. I wasn't able to finish it and have no way to get back what time I spent on it.

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SNOOZE FEST

Revisado: 03-17-20

I can't really saw for sure if the story was good or not because I wasn't able to finish it, barely got thru an hour of it. The narrator was completely wrong for this book, not sure what book he would be for to be honest. He's got a good voice but is SO monotone, think Jack Webb in Dragnet, I was practically lulled to sleep. This isn't a story I know a lot about so I was much looking forward to this book, especially with all the good reviews, sadly it didn't live up to the hype. Add in the random way the story was put together with the dull narration I just couldn't get thru it and can't recommend it.

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If you have Everything's Eventual skip this one

Revisado: 12-10-19

For some reason it just didn't register with my brain that all stores in this audio book are in Everything's Eventual. Pretty disappointing to get a book that says 'only available as an audio book' when that's only true in the most vague way. Yes, Blood and Smoke is only available as an audio book but the stories are included in a lager collection. If you don't have Everything's Eventual or not going to buy it, then go for it, great stories and I love hearing King read his own.

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Great book, bad reading

Revisado: 08-29-19

It's always hit or miss when an author narrates their own book for an audible. This is a miss. Lord of the Flies has been a favorite since I 1st read the book in jr high but it was a real struggle to get thru the audible. Golding makes his own story sound like watching paste dry. If you can get past the halting, monotonous tone he uses you might enjoy it. Overall, I highly recommend the book but would skip the audible given the chance to do it over.

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Details Details Details

Revisado: 08-15-19

I've always been interested in more details in Kitty Genovese's sad story and this book definitely has them. I was wondering how they were going to make this story a 13hr book and, as others have said there is quite a bit of repetition, but there is also quite a bit you don't get in most accounts of this story. My biggest issue in getting thru the book is the narration which is very robotic. I had to check a couple of times to make sure it wasn't 'Alexa' doing the reading. Dina Pearlman makes what should be an interesting story a bit like watching paint dry, if Rosie the Robot were doing the painting. Overall I just can't rate this book highly. You'd be better off reading it than listening to it.

Edit; I wrote my review before I had completed the book, not sure why but I did. I was unable to finish it because the minutiae just got to be too much. Things that didn't add to the story at all and just seemed to be filler to make it a longer book.

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'A Thriller'???? Not so much

Revisado: 06-28-19

To be fair I only got 2 hours in on this one and it was a struggle to get that far in. It's like a Westworld knock off, the series not the movie. If you're going to put 'a thriller' in the title of your book I expect to not still be bored 2hrs in. Also, is Eric Stoltz really who you want reading 'a thriller'? I think not. Will I ever finish this read? Well, that may be as big of a mystery as to why this book is so highly rated.

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Very Enjoyable

Revisado: 06-28-19

I quite enjoyed this book. The story line and characters are solid and not too much fluff. There are several nods to Hill's dad which is kind of nice and his style I think is much more similar to his dad than his brothers is. The narration for the most part is quite good. Mulgrew plays the leads very convincingly but a couple of the supporting voices she does get to be a bit grating to me.

I definitely recommend this one if you are a fan of King or just the genre in general.

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