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Speakeasy? Nope. More Wicca and Tarot than story

Revisado: 08-03-21

This was my first foray into reading another author’s attempt to continue a series I loved. It was an epic fail. I hated it. Really. It is set in Vermont, but other than that, it shares no resemblance to the Speakeasy series.

Maybe you will like it. If you are into crystals, tarot, and a passing discussion of Wicca, then you will love it. They are a driving force in the story to the point that they almost make up a main character.

The male narrator was good; the female was meh.

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Nice attempt, well read, but plot holes

Revisado: 01-10-21

I’ll listen to anything Jason Clarke reads. He does an amazing job of bringing each of his characters to life in their own unique way. Samantha Brentmoor was good, except for a few mispronunciations and occasionally calling the character “Scout” “Scott.”

However, the story didn’t ring true to the characters, storyline, or reality. None of these are spoilers, just small as sides.
-The brother who is so close to him never got in touch during his court case or while he was in prison...
-or his father
-or his grandmother

-Not knowing how to do an audio or video recording on his iPhone, even though he had it before going to prison, is under 30, and was only away for 18 months. The story is set in 2020. That means that in 2018, he was that iPhone illiterate? He wasn’t away for 18 years, just 18 months.

-The dad. He is not really believable as a character. A central issue in the novel without motivation or even clear actions. Not even a cliffhanger.

-John/ RJ: he describes himself in one way in the beginning, acts differently, describes himself differently later in the novel, and none of the descriptions are really accurate.

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Narration was off, story was meh.

Revisado: 09-01-20

The female narrator was great. The male was okay unless he was doing a female voice. It had that high pitch whine that sounds more mocking than real. The story was meh. I could figure out why they fell for each other, nor ever felt any sort of connection between them.

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Thank you, Erin Mallon!

Revisado: 06-19-20

Romance audiophiles will love this. It is more like a sitcom than a novel; a true audio play. This book is for you If:
1. You’ve ever look for books based on the narrator
2. You are hyper vigilant about not letting you audio book sync to a device that would allow other people to hear what you are listening to
3. You have ever wondered about the minds of the narrator
4. You have ever gotten annoyed when a narrator mispronounces a word, or an author misuses a word
5. You like quirky books
6. You have ever wondered if you could do a male characters voice as well as Andi Arndt

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Stop. Just walk away

Revisado: 03-23-20

Save yourself from the repetitive, awkward, and unfulfilling story.
Storyline- all over the place. Ideas brought up out of nowhere -and not always resolved
Narration- sometimes sounded like it was recorded over the phone. Zachary Webber reads well. The other narrator- I really couldn’t handle.
Point of view- switches all the time. I was never sure who was thinking what.
I almost deleted the book in the last 30 minutes. I kept it because I just needed to see if everything wrapped up. Spoiler... it didn’t.

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No more Alexander Cendese!

Revisado: 11-21-19

I cannot handle how horrible the narrator is!!! He sounds like a parody of an old woman in a 1950’s sit com. His main character voice is fine, but every other character is so over the top that no one in the book is relatable or believable. So sad that he destroyed a Rachel Van Dyken book.

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Shockingly bad and trite

Revisado: 12-06-18

Wow... pass this up. I am committed to finishing books once I invest a certain amount of time in them. I wish I had broken that commitment with this book. It is as if a college student watched too many soap operas while taking a creative writing class and decided she could write a novel. It is over the top. The writing is forgivable in its basic format, the plot is ridiculous, the main character is unstable in that her characteristics change, and every once in a while, just for fun, the story is naively offensive to the reader.

Just to top it off, the reader mispronounces the main character’s name throughout the whole story. Mathilda pronounced with the “th” sound instead of the “t” sound. Although, I did find out that some people pronounce bagels “beg-els”.

Spare yourself- okay, save yourself from this book!

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You had one job... read the story

Revisado: 12-02-18

Again with the horrible narrator. Maybe I could be a narrator. I can read out loud. I could make the men sound like the big bad wolf by using to fake deep voice. It would sound sexier than this awful performance.

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Narrator ruins the story

Revisado: 12-02-18

I wasn’t expecting to hear a man with a husky voice do a falsetto nasally stereotype of a woman. It doesn’t quite fit the genre. He doesn’t even do a good job of performing Noah. The character is a likable guy, but the performance makes him seem flippant and dumb. Maybe more of the blame goes to the author, but who hired this guy to read?

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