sarah

Favorite book of 2022

Revisado: 12-06-22

This is my favorite book I’ve read this year, and definitely one of my favorites of all time. Wonderful story and narrator does a superb job.

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Don’t believe the naysayers about the narrators

Revisado: 11-10-21

I almost did. I worried about listening to an annoying narrator portraying Edward, but this narrator did great. I guess people are expecting someone to sound like Robert Pattinson? He doesn’t sound like the actor, but he does great all the same.

My only thing with the story is (spoiler alert) one of the victims of Edwards dark past, the one that made him rethink his choice, falls along the lines of the people who think that pedophiles are a sexual preference and can’t help themselves. (The belief is that they supposedly hate themselves just as much as everyone else but can’t stop themselves from feeling that way. Ugh. Gross.) It made me sick to my stomach. It was just the one bit of the book though, I did enjoy everything else.

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Great narrator, great book!

Revisado: 06-10-21

I’ve listened to this whole book twice through. It’s one of my favorite books even though I’m not a fan of alien science fiction normally. I think this is the one exception.

The narrator is amazing, pretty much flawless. I’m not brought out of the book by weird voice overs at any point in the book. She does an amazing job!

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Almost DNF, glad I did though

Revisado: 12-17-20

I surprisingly ended up liking the book at the end, but I really hated it about midway through. The main character is treated like a doormat and she has no backbone. There are a lot of belittling misogynistic men in her life and she allows them to bully her. It was really hard for me at some point to continue to listen. It made my stomach churn.

This might be due in part because, I’ve been in Fixie’s shoes and seen my mom treated like this and it hit a sensitive spot. I’ve been physically harmed by a misogynistic family member standing up for my mom in several situations so this was touchy for me. I don’t regret standing up for her. This just touched a nerve for me. Anyways, I digress.

However, there’s a beautiful reckoning in the end, but it’s at the very end.... you have to stomach through several hours of her being abused to get to the good part.

The reader is excellent. There was just one or two times she was offbeat. For example: Fixie finally starts to get a backbone and there’s a line she is supposed to yell (something about the loans do matter or something) and instead it comes out soft and airy. This bothered me because it was Fixie finally standing up to her brother and I was cheering her on and wanted her to yell at him like she should. Lol. But honestly the reader does a great great job and that was the only time her reading “brought me out” of the story if that makes sense.

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