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Excellent - both plot and characters

Revisado: 07-04-23

Reminded me of Patricia Highsmith’s work - my first read of this author’s and I will want to read more of his work now.

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Spooky and suspenseful and memorable

Revisado: 05-10-19

One of the best stories I’ve listened to on audible.com— for anyone interested in love and fate and whether or not to trust a gut feeling

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So poorly read, Audible should remove from library

Revisado: 01-29-19

This isn’t a professionally produced audiobook, which makes it hard to listen to. You can hear the microphone moving, papers rustling, and there are many pauses, and some places where it seems as though sections were skipped. It is as though the author read it once and no one edited it. The content is interesting, but I would read it rather than listen to it.

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the narrator's perky voice distracted me

Revisado: 12-20-16

Would you try another book from Catherine McKenzie and/or Kristi Burns?

I see from other reviewers that many liked the narrator's voice in this, but I found her voice to be so overly perky that I couldn't listen to this very long, so I can't really judge the book as a whole. Her voice didn't seem well-suited to a story in which a main theme is alcohol abuse.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Kristi Burns?

Someone with a less chirpy voice.

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Great plot and unbelievably imaginative

Revisado: 01-11-16

I read a lot of speculative fiction. This stands out as being one of those most imaginative--I kept thinking, how did he come up with this idea? It is so unexpected but completely gripping in the way the plot is laid out. The characters are well done, if a little cheesy at times.

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Too much internal/external talk, not enough plot

Revisado: 05-19-14

What would have made Sleepless better?

With such a fascinating premise, I'd hoped this would be a plot-driven novel. Instead, the author seemed too focused on his protagonist, Parker Haas, in particular--and I thought there was far too much dialogue, which perhaps was in the service of further fleshing out the inner conflicts of that main character. I get it, that Haas felt conflicted, but the disease, the political situation, and the societal impact, in my opinion, was so much more fascinating.

What do you think your next listen will be?

Probably "The Accident", by Chris Pavone.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

There wasn't enough difference between their voices, in my opinion. But I didn't really have a problem with the narration or the production, it's just that the book was not to my taste.

What character would you cut from Sleepless?

Not sure any one character needed to be cut so much as there was too much dialogue and not enough plot progress--for my taste, though maybe this novel is more literary than what I personally wanted, in that I guess the author's goal was too explore character more than plot.

Any additional comments?

I actually hope this book will be made into a movie because I would love to see this premise explored in a plot-driven manner. I apologize to the author for writing a negative review--I know how hard it is to write novels, and I can tell from the prose that he worked hard on this and that he's a great writer, it just wasn't my type of read.

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