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A cute romance, but light on character

Revisado: 08-27-24

A great book for the atmosphere, but not Dugan’s best. I liked Some Girls Do and Love at First Set is my all-time favorite romance, so I was stoked for this, but it let me down. The plot is well-constructed (although the “twist” at the end was obvious from about the midpoint), but the characters really lack for depth and personality, as does the reader’s performance. This book is fine, and a decent read, just does not stand out the way some of her other books do.

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Did ChatGPT write this?

Revisado: 06-29-24

The narration is robotic, the plot nonsensical, and the character motivations completely unexplained. The writing style breaks every rule of good prose taught in a fiction 101 class. Reads like someone asked ChatGPT to write a slow-burn fake dating romance.

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Like a weird Christmas special

Revisado: 04-10-24

If you’re this deep into the ACOTAR series, you’re going to read this, but it’s entirely skippable. The plot focuses around the fey version of Christmas, which presents everyone gets, and how happy Fey’re and Rhys are. There’s no villain, no inciting incident, and no character arcs.

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Heavy on the cyber, light on the punk

Revisado: 02-07-21

This is a pretty good near-future sci-fi amateur detective story. It doesn’t quite scratch the cyberpunk itch I came for, because in the end its ethics are uncomplicated and it lacks the cynicism I expect from the genre. The world building is great though.

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Thirsty Wizard vs the Monsters

Revisado: 07-26-20

Harry Dresden has been a paragon of toxic masculinity for the entirety of the series, but in this book it becomes a primary plot point. Butcher spends probably 30% of his word count using Harry’s inner monologue to describe the bodies of his female characters and what he wants to do to them. New for this series is Butchers interest in MFF threesomes, of which he introduces two. The experience to the reader is voyeuristic to the point of awkwardness. Fans of the series will likely want to suffer through this to find out what happens next, but probably a good place to stop if your interest is only passing.

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Great story, awful reader

Revisado: 04-07-12

What would have made A Feast for Crows better?

Consistancy in pronunciation and voices between this book and the first three. Roy Dotrice has read 100 hours of ASOI&F to me, and then changes up the way he says major character names, without some kind of forward explaining the change? It makes the book difficult to immerse yourself in.

What was one of the most memorable moments of A Feast for Crows?

Having to stop the book and rewind in order to figure out who the author was talking about, because I didn't recognize the name.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Roy Dotrice?

I would have preferred Roy Dotrice, performer of the first three novels. Not this Roy. Dotrice imposter.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Anger.

Any additional comments?

If you're a huge fan of the series, there's little doubt that you'll purchase this book too. But if you're not sold yet, end the series with A Storm of Swords and save yourself the frustration.

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Low point in the series

Revisado: 08-25-08

While anyone reaching this far in the series will not stop having gotten this far, the action of this novel has been put on pause. To quote from wikipedia's plot summary:

"Perrin Aybara continues trying to...

"Mat Cauthon continues trying to...

"Elayne Trakand continues trying to...

"Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, rests after...

"Egwene leads the rebel Aes Sedai in maintaining..."

Literally no new action begins and no plot lines end. There are some interesting scenes, but Crossroads of Twilight merely rehashes and stretches a few chapters of Winter's Heart into an entire novel. Perhaps this review is colored by the powerful drama and high action of the other novels; Crossroads of Twilight is a novel of intrigues. Newcomers to the series should definitely not start here, and fans will not want to pass this by. Just be prepared for a different type of listen than the first nine novels.

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Worth it in the end.

Revisado: 06-17-08

The Wheel of Time has really begun to slow down at this point, and this book seems to drag on as all of the characters are perpetually traveling. That said, there is a single scene toward the end of the novel whose power quite literally made me stop and gasp. Of the series so far this was the most difficult for me to get through, but when you hit the passage as I did, you'll realize it was worth it.

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All character, no wit

Revisado: 12-26-07

This was an excellent example of what "The Colbert Report" would be like if produced during the WGA strike. Colbert's delivery and character are great, but this audiobook lacks the subtlety, satire, intelligence and humor that makes me love "The Report".

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Uninteresting for left or right

Revisado: 12-15-06

After many years of reading audiobooks, this is one of the few that I could get two-thirds of the way through and still be unable to finish. Lefties will find this book to have a far-end, tree-hugging flavor, while righties will see little or no attempt to meet halfway or uncourage a shift in perspective. The author assumes the audience already agrees, and is unconvincing to anyone the least bit skeptical.

The author (male) mainly writes in the first-person, which becomes confusing when the reader (female) talks about his wife and other personal facts. The author also seems to believe that, like him, everyone in America's children attend schools abroad and begin globetrotting before twenty.

Some good ideas, but the obtuse lack of insight into what the real world is actually like makes this book a slow, unfulfilling listen.

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