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Fantastic

Revisado: 02-07-25

OMG! This book is so good! If I'd been able to I would have listened start to finish in one setting. The story, the characters, the pacing, the emotions were perfect! I've always loved Julia Whelan as a narrator, and she was stellar as usual. I will definitely be looking for her next book as an author and continue to seek her out as a narrator.

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Story good, narrator not

Revisado: 04-06-24

This was a fun, predictable romance with good characters. The narrator's breathiness and slow speech drove me crazy but I wanted to listen to the story. I could stand her at 1.2 X speed.

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I guess I felt differently

Revisado: 08-16-23

I got this book because it sounded like a great story and there were so many outstanding reviews. I just didn't like it. It started out well, but the main character turned out to be kind of an arrogant git. The narration just droned on and on. I kept thinking "this narrator needs some Prozac". When I got to part 3 and he slowed down even more and got even more monotone and quiet I couldn't take it anymore. The story was just not interesting enough for me to slog through the narration.

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Meh

Revisado: 12-11-22

I don't get all the other good reviews. The narrator is decent, except that when the characters are droning on with thoughts as an information dump, she tends to drone on as well. I listened for almost 10 hours thinking that it was going to get better, but it never did. The story just didn't seem to go anywhere. The characters are flat, with no development within the story or themselves. The few sex scenes seemed inserted because the author thought they should go there and don't really add to the story or, again, to character development. The hatred and violence weren't disturbing so much as just repetitive and gratuitous. I realized that I was just bored and was having to talk myself into listening for a little bit more to hope something different happened. I finally returned it to spend my credit on something that I will actually enjoy.

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just a great story and Ray Porter!

Revisado: 11-04-22

I wasn't sure what to expect from this book and was skeptical when iI started it. But this is a great story! It' was hard to stop listening. Yes there's a lot of science but no information dumps or droning on. (If science generally bores you, stsy away). But OMG it's mostly about the power of feelings, communication and friendship. It was fun, funny, serious, sad, maddening, heart breaking and heart warming.
Ray Porter is one of my favorite narrators and this was up to his typical wonderful performance. standard .

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Couldn't keep going

Revisado: 09-20-22

This was basically a woman complaining. The complaining got more and more bitter as the "story" went on. After about 22 minutes hoping it would get better it never did so I stopped listening.

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Terrible story, writing, characters

Revisado: 02-03-22

I gave this book a chance, thinking that often it takes a while for a story to develop. However, after 2.5 hours I couldn't stand it anymore. The story and the words are repetitive, inane. I found nothing to like about any of the characters. I gave up and am returning the book.

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Boring!

Revisado: 11-21-21

Even Ray Porter's narration couldn't save this book. I kept going back to it, thinking it would get better but it never did. The characters are shallow, the story predictable and so far from original I don't even have a word for it. I returned the book.

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Couldn't keep going

Revisado: 08-07-21

I made it 3/4 of the way through part one of the cycle then just couldn't take it anymore. I wanted to give it a chance to get better but it never did. The story alternates between long, drawn out "history" or descriptions and terrible dialog. I think the character interaction is supposed to be light, comedic banter, but it ends up being just bickering that never changes. The long background/descriptive parts often don't turn out to be relevant. a lot of it feels like filler, but I found myself relived to not have to listen to dialog.
The main characters don't develop at all. They don't learn from their mistakes. They meet teachers who don't teach them or they ignore it when they do. They don't recognize skills that would help them.
I just couldn't imagine listening to hours more of the same.
The narrator just magnifies everything.

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Maybe It's just me

Revisado: 10-17-16

I really tried to like this book. I went back and read other reviews and summaries and tried again but I just found myself actually avoiding listening to books because this one was up next in line. The narrator is excellent but I just couldn't get into the stalker story. Maybe I'm too old but the characters seemed pathetic and sick to me. I have other books that I want to listen to so I'm giving up on this one.

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