Kristin J

Disappointed

Revisado: 10-08-24

The main character was a completely unlikable person with a horrible attitude and she obviously taught it to her daughter. The cop's character was flat and boring. I had to force myself to listen because the narration was awful. The guy sounded like he was imitating Charlie Sheen, and the woman wasn't much better. Overall, a disappointment, especially compared to other J D Barker books I have read.

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Good book with bad impersonations

Revisado: 06-01-24

As usual, Koontz put out a good story. The narrator, however, was over the top. It seemed he was just doing impressions of different actors...Jimmy Stewart, Paul Lind, and worst of all, Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump! The main characters who are from New Orleans sounded nothing like that, and too many others had bad Alabama accents when they were in Montana. It was annoying and distracted from the book. It makes me want to give up on audiobooks.

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Horrible narrator

Revisado: 05-28-24

Story was okay but the narrator was like nails on a chalkboard. She read in a constant urgent whisper. It was really hard to listen!

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Not well written.

Revisado: 05-15-24

While most people are giving bad reviews because of the computerized voice, that is not a problem to me. I find real people often incorrectly dramatize things and it gets pretty annoying. A computer voice let's you interpret the book without the narrator injectionng bias. Unfortunately, the writing is sophomoric. Not interesting at all. I would recommend passing on this one.

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Horrible Narrator, Slow story

Revisado: 05-09-24

I got tired of hearing the 3 character voices of this narrator: Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, Keanu Reeves in Bill and Ted, and some super excited commercial spokesman. Geese, so annoying. Plus, the general 3rd person narrative was monotone and uninspired. Add that to a long-winded, over-technical story and it was hard to finish. Not impressed.

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Female narration was all wrong

Revisado: 01-07-24

An okay story, but the sing-song reading of a dark story was unbearable. It was such a distraction. It seemed more like a bad performance reading of a poem, and it didn't fit at all.

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Exactly what I don't want in a fiction book

Revisado: 09-07-23

It has been so nice to put the pandemic driven division behind us. Why would anyone want to read a book that puts it front and center as often as possible? The characters seem judgemental, self- righteous, and even hateful on both sides of the issue. The people in this story think one of two ways and seem to believe the other side is full of evil idiots. Thank goodness everyone doesn't think and behave this way. I am not sure what the author is trying to do here, but by reading the reviews so far, it seems he has only caused continued division. I can only conclude Mr. King sees people as his characters do, especially since he made a point to say his book is realistic. How sad. I hope that in future books he will return to a less political approach. I have learned my lesson and will wait to borrow new titles from the library rather than buying them and being so disappointed with my purchase.

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Awful narration, unique story

Revisado: 02-28-23

I found the book to be good with an original storyline. The only part of the writing I had trouble with was that the main character was supposed to be an American who grew up in Boston and moved to London as an adult, but her thoughts and speech were completely British. There was not a hint of American in her. The narrator was excruciating to hear. Her accents were horrible, and her character voices were like nails down a chalkboard. Women voices were ridiculously high and sing-song, while men voices were an awful kind of gruff. She also spoke in an ultra slow diction when doing some of the voices, which made them sound mentally disabled. I forced myself to finish because I liked the story but I will never listen to another book by this narrator.!

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Average

Revisado: 01-19-23

Good mystery with a satisfying ending. However, the detectives seemed immature and ridiculously unprofessional. The accents were horrible and distracting, especially the Hispanic accent (like a bad cartoon) and the Las Vegas female detective's accent (Southern? or Midwestern?). I had to skip through some it was so awful. Overall, just average.

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Divisive stereotypes. Not reality.

Revisado: 10-15-22

Please, I beg Hill and all talented writers. Keep politics out of it. Your biases detract from the story and are unnecessary. The division of characters into two groups (hateful, stupid bigots and enlightened, smart martyrs) is insulting and unrealistic. How smug it is to portray all characters who don't agree with your politics as ignorant fools who are all completely intolerant, uncaring and immoral. The great majority of the people who disagree with your policies are nothing like these characters. You completely misunderstand our reasoning and point of view. For example, you stated we care more about the second amendment than saving childrens' lives. No, sir. We want our children as safe from evil as you do. We simply disagree on the way to best achieve it. Please stop spreading the urge to dismiss half the country by perpetuating false assumptions and generalizations. I really want to enjoy a story without feeling like the author hates half the people reading.

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