Mike

Lots of good, some bad

Revisado: 06-02-22

First, I need to say that writing a time travel story with “conundrums” and actively trying to mess with the timeline must be some of the hardest writing there is, and Mrs. Wright does an excellent job of it. Most time travel stories either try to avoid messing with the timeline as much as possible or they end up leaving plot holes and loose threads all over like they are throwing candy from a parade float. Mrs. Wright does an amazing job, it’s a complicated story that you want to read multiple times to really catch all the time travel changes. I can honestly see her writing each character in chronological order and splitting it up later or having had a story board with more pages then the actual books. It was honestly masterful how she had things that were cannon and then gradually the cannon got changed because of what her characters did and I would sit there and go “wait, that isn’t the future that she had talked about earlier”. I have read a lot of time travel books and the way she did it was one of my favorites. That is what she did well and she was, as I said, masterful at it but there were a lot of things that made this series really hard to get through. First and foremost when I realized that it was the writer narrating I gave her a lot of grace, for being the writer and not a narrator she did an amazing job but …so many mispronunciations…so many. Every time in the first couple books that she would say “detritus” I wanted to scream. I know it isn’t a big deal and in the last book, in the authors notes she makes fun of a word she mispronounced and how someone caught it and she changed it…for the love of God could you please have the same people edit all your books. Second, and this is my biggest problem with the books, enough that I have written another review talking about this. This should have been a trilogy. Besides the fact that it annoyed me that I had to put up credits for six books when it should have been three, the real problem is that these books kept reminding the reader of what happened. Instead of reminding me three times that this person is “My litter mate and I love her” it seemed like I had to be reminded of that every time the character was brought up. I felt like a third of the later books were filled with reminders of who everyone was and why I should care. It took away from the story and makes it difficult to go through the books again which this series totally asks the readers to do. When did Lt. Columbia emerge and what was going on during that time? How did the timeline change and why? These are the questions that make me want to re-listen to this series and instead I have to keep getting reminded about how the main character meet Carlos and what he means to her. That being said, this series was excellent and anger inducing at the same time. It is a series that I would love to go through multiple times while also making me want to rage quit every time. I think that if Mrs. Penelope Wright can get out of her own way she is going to be a force to be reckoned with. I hope she does, because I would love to read version 2.0 of this series.

Also I would have loved for the book at the end to have 102 mysteries. Seriously, it wasn’t enough of a mystery what happened to Sarah to get a nod in the book?

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Story isn’t bad but the books are too short

Revisado: 08-08-21

The story starts off slow but by the second book reaches its stride. The only problem I have is that the books are soooo short. Like $10 for each 4 hour book short. It feels like kind of a rip off. But good story.

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Great premise failed execution.

Revisado: 07-22-21

Everyone is complaining about the narrator and not complaining about the failed premise. Don’t get me wrong the narrator was bad, definitely speed up the book or you will go crazy. It makes more sense now that I know it was narrated by Adrienne King. Props to the final girl of final girls.

The problem is the book didn’t follow through. The main character is good but a little annoying, which is honestly in character I guess. It’s just that the supporting characters are not interesting past figuring out what movie they came from and the twist was completely transparent. I didn’t dislike this book but it just wasn’t what it could have/should have been. Kind of reminded me of the movie “Brightburn” a totally watchable movie that could have been oh so much better.

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Great apocalypse story

Revisado: 07-21-20

Look I loved this book. I’m going through it for a second time and love it still but I need to admit something. When the main characters talk about “women folk” or when they can’t say the word “tampon” it totally throws me out of the story. Seriously what adult man or women can’t talk about feminine hygiene? It is just ridiculous, and if you are an adult who can’t...grow the hell up.

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interesting story, screwed up “heroes”

Revisado: 02-17-20

I particularly liked the part where one of the Twins rapes a guy who was semi conscious, ignores that he started crying right after and makes a laughing point about him escaping through the window to get away from them. Or the part where the other twin falls in love with the first guy she sees, and then decides to take advantage of him while he is on drugs. Lucky for the guy he passes out cause apparently that’s the line that these twins won’t cross to lose their virginity.

The story was interesting and unique in a lot of ways. The protagonists were mostly eye rolling and belligerent. I highly doubt I will read this author again.

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