Cindy

Educational yet compelling

Revisado: 01-03-21

McKenzie's performance is stunning, going between an Australian accent and her own British voice, character voices, and emotional renderings. The story itself is interesting history mixed with the personalization of vastly different women being confined together on the voyage. This will be a book I listen to quite a lot.

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Interesting

Revisado: 12-31-20

A lot of criticism has been directed towards Santino Fontana in his job of narration, but unless you're looking for a play actor he does an absolutely fine job of narrating this. He is no Jim Dale, but that type of narration would be unfitting for this kind of story. The book is interesting. it is a look into the life of Coriolanus Snow, the development of such a sadistic and uncaring person. a sociopath, by all means. It is interesting to see, even though it is a brief look, only encompassing less than a year of his life, into how he started on his path of corruption, abuse, and evil. I enjoyed the read. I enjoy background information. I enjoyed this book and Mr Fontana very much.

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Was Hoping for Better

Revisado: 12-28-20

The narrator tells the story like he's talking to very young children. The fact that this is a children's story does not mean you are telling a story to 2 year-olds. However, I forgot how long each story was, having read them all as a young teen. I was also a new reader to chapter books at that time. As an adult, I think the stories I could get through are really quite boring. My children will not be interested in these tales I think. I know these are richly cultured stories from the beginning of the 20th century, but they are really hard to get into today with this particular narrator.

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Wonderfully Satisfying

Revisado: 09-09-20

I am very glad that Stephanie Meyer finally published this book. I avoided all other twilight replicas from Edwards perspective knowing that they were not written by her. it was very insightful to be inside his mind and understand why he was so attracted to Bella. I will be listening to this over and over again in the future. here's to hoping she might do the same thing for each of the other three books in this series.

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Great Discussion

Revisado: 07-13-20

This is Brené Brown leading a workshop of sorts, somewhere. It takes place over a couple of days, and was broken up into several sessions so the audience/participants could digest little bits at a time. I loved it. I love workshops. I participated by myself to all the parts, raising my hand when questioned, adding my voice to statements that resonated, and nodding or shaking my head. It's the next best thing to being there in person.

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Great Conclusion

Revisado: 07-07-20

Kirman manages to wrap up the series with an exciting ending full of loops and twists. A great series for new and struggling readers.

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Great Middle Story

Revisado: 07-07-20

Full of suspense and thrilling mystery. A very small book, but great for newish readers. This is an exciting serues. for youth.

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Great Reader! Great Story!

Revisado: 07-06-20

Holter Graham has great emotion and this is a great story by Kirman. this is a great series, broken up into three small books making it an exciting yet not overwhelming story for young readers.

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interesting and Purposefully Unsatisfying

Revisado: 06-10-20

When I began this book I had no background to start it; this was a book club choice. I am a 47 year old American woman, who has never trusted the media to tell the whole story of anything and didn't pay attention to Lybia, ever. From the get go, I realized the author was either pretentious or vastly smarter and more well read than myself. I discovered, it is the latter, but that Matar is extremely well read. There is no real political agenda except when trying to explain the disappearance of his father. It is a perspective of the author and his family who are immensely affected by the dictatorship of the country. At the end, the story just stops. There is no conclusion, but this is the author's experience. In leaving no real end, you are forced to experience a finite fraction of his own dissatisfaction. A good read, an uncomfortable read, a saddened story.

Matar reads his own story, and has no real emotion in his voice. It is rather bland feeling for such an emotional book. However, I would guess that pronunciation of the Lybian names, french locations, Italian phrases, and the Lybian language which are frequent occurrences in this book, are made beautiful by having Matar read this book. I mean, how many voice over readers can there be that speak such a range of languages well enough to not detract from the story. Matar's own English accent sounds a bit Irish to me, and is more British in his pronouncement which is very pleasant to the ear.

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An Excellent Conclusion

Revisado: 06-08-20

All ends wrapped up. Quite satisfying. Long, yet still so full of information about this world without being boring. Fight scenes very well written. A well done ending.

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