Daniel Potter

Yes it IS for people with ADHD!

Revisado: 01-30-23

As someone diagnosed with ADHD and depression this book, and the struggle it describes, was very relatable for me.

It has been mere days, and the strategies this book has taught me have already made a noticeable difference in my home and with my temperament.

I've also found myself excitedly sharing these strategies with others in my family and among my friends who have similar struggles.

ADHD and depression does not manifest the same way for everyone, so, even if you have ADHD and/or depression, this book might not be for you.

However, I would like you to warn you away from one-star reviews that claim the uselessness of this book based on a narrow definition of ADHD and a frustration with Audible's return policies.

The first chapter of this book describes exactly who it is for. If you are worried about returning it then skip the introduction and credits and go straight to the first chapter.

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I love this series.

Revisado: 07-04-22

What wonderful character development! That's the most important thing to me. If you love deep characters who don't stray from their identity to be shoehorned into a narrative they don't fit, you'll love this series too.

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I love it. Can't wait for my son to read it.

Revisado: 02-19-20

I love how it explores physics and biology for kids. It delves deep enough to get into some of the complexity, but doesn't get confusing.

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Not Sanderson's best.

Revisado: 08-05-19

Narration was fine, though a colloquial glottal stop (ha'nt instead of hadn't) was distracting, but I'm oddly picky.
Story was pretty good, though it felt a little phoned-in. I feel like Sanderson might weild a little too much clout, and editors might be to afraid to challenge him. in particular, there was an A.I. in the book that was downright pitifully written. It overreached in attempted humor, being obviously and highly predictably dismissive of human intelligence, constantly going out of the way to underline, vocally, that it was a robot. It felt like there should have been a sitcom studio "laughter" sign in the corner, lighting up at the end of each of his lines, given how forced and obvious it's attempted humor was.

Otherwise, the book was interesting, though the worldbuilding was simplistic and not as believeable as most Sanderson.

If it were anybody else, I'd say it's a moderately good book. From Sanderson, however, it's a disappointment.

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Great book, strange performance.

Revisado: 10-28-18

I'm not sure why they choose this performer to read this book. She certainly seemed to say the Russian words well, however her accent could be a bit distracting for the regular English words. She says "sow" instead of "saw," for instance, and sometimes her cadence got rushed and droning, like she was bored.

The book itself was good enough to pull me through the distracting accent, though. Naomi's writing flows well and the world she has woven together here is both enchanting and real. I highly recommend this book.

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Delightfully Charming and Just Mysterious Enough..

Revisado: 03-06-18

... to be a window into something perfectly alien.

Slow to start. Patience needed for character building to gain momentum.

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good story, decent reader.

Revisado: 01-20-18

Sanderson fans will find this a decent read. not as good as Stormlight Archives or Mistborn, but a good read all the same.

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Decent, but not as good as Curse of Chalion.

Revisado: 07-07-17

The setup felt very slow, and the characters were not as believable, nor the relationships as deep has in some of Bujold's other books. Still, it IS Bujold, so that's like saying this gold isn't quite as valuable as that gold. It's all still gold!

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Listen at 1.35 speed.

Revisado: 04-06-17

I absolutely adored this book. The narrator is very good, but super slow. The narrative drags unless you speed it up.

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Massively enlightening book on self-mastery!

Revisado: 04-04-17

A great book describing why we do what we do and why, often, we do things that we definitely don't want to do, or don't do things that we know we should. This book describes how to change that, and how to become who you want to be.

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