Karen Kiddine

Tedious

Revisado: 10-03-23

I bought this book based on the reviews and I feel like everyone else must have read a different book.

I was hoping for a cozy fall book with some witchy action, but 75% of this books revolves around a weird toxic friendship and nothing truly exciting ever seems to happen. Unless you've just gone through a breakup and are looking for a cathartic read, I would take a pass on this one.

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So. Slow.

Revisado: 12-03-20

I wanted to like this, but it's just so very slow. I do not understand they hype around it. I kept waiting for it to pick up and get interesting, but I was two hours from the end before I realized that wasn't going to happen. If you like books with lots of navel gazing and people suffering, I guess this is the one.

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Beautiful story, great narration

Revisado: 10-19-20

This book was made to be an audiobook, Nicole Lewis' narration did an amazing job of bringing this book to life.

The story itself is beautiful - it's a fast paced sci-fi that covers topics like death and power in a truly interesting way. It's a definite must read.

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I wanted this to be good...

Revisado: 07-08-20

I love the premise of this book, following "chosen ones" after the fact, sounds like a great time!

However this reads like just a straight up YA novel, and the ending and "twists" are all things you can see coming from miles away. It's super formulaic.

I didn't hate the narration, but I wouldn't call it good, as other reviewers have mentioned it's just weirdly flat throughout.

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Like nothing else out there.

Revisado: 12-07-18

I'm not even sure how to describe this book, it really doesn't compare to anything else I've ever read, and that's great! An interview with the author says that he wanted to incorporate the dysfunctional family aspect of the ancient Greek gods Add in some horror and the modern age and that's as close to describing the book as I can get. It's fantastic.

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Loved this, great hard sci-fi

Revisado: 12-07-18

I've been missing out on Andy Weir until now, this book was great. The main character was delightfully realistic and flawed, and the narration was perfect. I'll absolutely be re listening to this one at some point.

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Glad I didn't pay much for this one.

Revisado: 12-07-18

This book was...weird. For every piece of useful information I found there were about 10 pieces of total nonsense. Implying that not pursuing your creativity can lead to cancer, seriously?? George Guidall was also a strange choice to narrate this, it felt a little bit like being yelled at by Walt Longmire. If you're on the fence, skip this one.

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Gets better in the second half.

Revisado: 11-19-18

I found the first half of this book to seriously drag on, but I am glad I stuck it out, the second half provides some excitement and the payoff at the end is worth it.

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Just amazing.

Revisado: 11-08-18

I've probably read this book 3 or 4 times, but having it narrated by the author takes it to another level. It's a story that has a little bit of everything, and I'll for sure be listening to it again.

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This will make you feel better about any breakup.

Revisado: 11-08-18

Has your breakup ever caused a war? No? Then you're doing better than most of the couples featured in this book.

A funny, but also insightful look into some of the biggest breakups in history, spanning the course of thousands of years. While not quite as good as "Get Well Soon", by the same author, this is still a nice easy listen that's guaranteed to make anyone feel a little better about their relationship.

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