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All this time

Revisado: 03-19-24

I read this story yearly for thirty years. The audio is a nice adaptation. Still a great favorite.

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A start, a slow burn.

Revisado: 06-30-23

A great place to start environmental true crime as a genre. The story pits the obvious villain well against the greater villain.

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Pretty much perfect

Revisado: 10-13-21

This book is filled with wonders mysterious and strange, heartache, love and dreams. I revisit in the spring, and possibly more times more often in a year. It remains a pleasure to read and listen.

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Perfect escapism for falling asleep

Revisado: 04-17-21

I’ve listened to this book many many times incrementally. It lulls me to dreams and mysteries and stops me from worrying about my life for the moment as I dream of other cities.

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I want better, but have still partaken

Revisado: 03-17-21

Thrice times I’ve read this book. Thrice times I have become bored and questioned why I’m reading it. I think the structure is good, the characters are dynamic enough but somehow the tale does not thrill me, and becomes a slog to the end. Yet like pro forma office birthday cake consumption I question the motivation toe gage with and complete the endeavor.

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I want better, but have still partaken

Revisado: 03-17-21

Thrice times I’ve read this book. Thrice times I have become bored and questioned why I’m reading it. I think the structure is good, the characters are dynamic enough but somehow the tale does not thrill me, and becomes a slog to the end. Yet like pro forma office birthday cake consumption I question the motivation toe gage with and complete the endeavor.

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So much fun!

Revisado: 06-30-16

This book will make the mad scientist inside feel jealous and gleeful all at once. Perhaps the resultant heady giddiness will influence new experiments?

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Fun and Easy

Revisado: 12-05-12

This is a fun zombie gore fest/ queen-bee mean girl coming of age story. Its also funny and heartwarming . . . somehow. . .

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Love this book

Revisado: 09-06-12

This is the first Westerfeld novel to which I have listened. I found it rollicking fun and an excellent escapist romance (in the chivalric sense of the word). From a distance, the premise is simple (music is the staff of life), but the presentation is complex (societal collapse). The author weaves plague, vampire, and scientific mythology throughout the story, along with his apparent love of guitar driven music. In fact, one of the aspects of the book which was most enjoyable was the character's interaction with music, and how the drastic changes to the environment around them (a plague, city abandonment, military rule) effected their relationship to each other and the music. They protagonists are teenagers, and somewhat lack in empathy and awareness. Nonetheless, they are compelling in their various reasons for being where they when their world changes. Another aspect which made the novel enjoyable was the use of place as a character. Authors and filmmakers love to destroy New York City. This novel was able to do so with gritty aplomb without a major natural disaster.

The narrators characterize each individual very well. They are able to make each one shine as it's own individual entity.

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Enjoyed the narrator

Revisado: 09-06-12

This book is a favorite guilty pleasure. It is part of the earlier Valdemar series and one of, or the, first of the ones depicting Queen Seleney's reign. The novel is a world builder, not bogged down in repetition that clogs the storytelling in this series. Familiarity makes it extra important to enjoy the reading. This narrator speaks in the cadences of the Northeast US. She bites the words and rounds the vowels in such a way that it may be disturbing to people who don't clip their words or rapidly tattoo a sentence. However, to me, it was a pleasant and enjoyable experience, as these are the tones of home. Many times I felt she was feeling compassionate and warm in her characterization. Overall, this audiobook will remain on the rainy day shelf.

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