Kathleen G.

The Narrator!

Revisado: 03-26-24

It might have been good if the narrator had not made the story sound like a low budget soap opera.

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A bit far fetched

Revisado: 02-18-24

It started off intriguing, but when the two storylines started arcing together it got just a bit improbable.

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Robert Galbraith has done it again

Revisado: 10-13-23

I’ve listened or read so many books that it takes a lot to grab my attention, yet Cormoran Strike has never disappointed me. Thank you Robert Galbraith giving us something interesting & never boring!

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Leave the politics at home

Revisado: 04-25-23

I’ve read every Kate Shugak book to date and have liked them all,but I didn’t even finish this one. Firstly, it started slow to the point that i scratched my head as to where it was going
Finally, after the plane crash and you begin to piece together all the various and sundry characters, the locals, the FBI, the pilots & the gun toting racist, we get to Kate & what she does best. Solve mysteries. Only this time the author introduces politics into it, to the point of leaving innuendo or metaphor out, and gives us names and labels.
For me, it’s getting old! I’ve noticed more authors lately are starting to interject their political views in a very obvious way, much like Hollywood actors are. I stopped watching much TV because I was disgusted with it. I read & listen to A LOT of books to escape all the negative politics & riots & other nonsense on TV these days.
Don’t get me wrong, I love a book that makes me think & ask questions. One that’s so well researched the I’ve gone to the computer or library to look it up just to educate myself. Such as Barbara Kingsolver’s Poisonwood Bible or Sara Donati’s Into the Wilderness series. However, encourage a person to think & ask questions, don’t give me your opinions and ideologies.

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Excellent “storyteller”

Revisado: 03-01-23

But… I liked it & would recommend it, with one caveat, it was a bit implausible. Just a bit too many misunderstandings, too many questionable motives & too much guilt. Although, it was entertaining enough that if you can overlook that, you’ll definitely enjoy it.

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Where is Daniel Silva?

Revisado: 07-17-21

So disheartened, this is the first of his books I could barely make it thru. Took forever to get to the point of the story. Then when it did, poof, the next you know it turns into a diatribe on American politics & Mr. Silva’s opinion on Russia-Gate. If I wanted that I’d turn on the TV. The point of fictional books is to escape all that, I read non-fiction to research facts. Regardless of what my personal beliefs are, I don’t want my favorite Authors & characters giving me their opinions.

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I’m sorry

Revisado: 03-31-20

I have enjoyed Ms Maas’s previous YA books yet I just could not get into this. It felt like reading a grade school book, then they added some fowl language and romance, then called it adult.

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Please! Tell me I don't have to wait 2 years for the next one!

Revisado: 08-30-17

I listen to A Lot of audiobooks, so it takes something special for me to rave about it. When I listened to to first one, I did just that. RAVED, to anyone who would listen. This book, the second in The Licanius Trilogy, did not disappoint. It was just as good as the first. It was well paced, never boring and considering the large cast of characters, that's amazing!

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I Tried, I Really Tried

Revisado: 09-23-15

I really anticipated this book but, I ended up being so disappointed! It just dragged and dragged to the point, I ended up speeding thru just to get to the end.
Lisbeth and Mikail were just plain boring. I'm not good at writing reviews so I don't know any other way to say it. I kept waiting for them to come out of their shell and show us those same characters I was so addicted to in the last 3 books, and it just never happened.
Also, all the tech stuff about A.I. was just confusing and it never really meshed with the final story line. The world lost a great author when Stieg Larsson passed ..... trying to fill those shoes just did not work.

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Call me Plebeian, but...

Revisado: 07-01-15

Not quite sure what all the raving was about. Maybe I'm just not erudite enough...but there were an awfully lot of words coming from this whining kid, when half of them would have been sufficed.
Theo is supposed to be highly intelligent and sometimes you see that but, he is really slow on the "uptake". There were times I wanted to knock him in the head myself.....
I had to get halfway into the book, and I wanted to put it down several times, before it got interesting. Just too many words to say so little. Just a lot his rambling self indulgent thoughts. The whole last chapter is a good example, but I stayed with it just to see if he got out of his mess... but that's not for me to tell

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