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These are not 16 year olds

Revisado: 11-16-22

A very badly done novelization of the movie 'Groundhog Day' with '16 year olds' acting as the main protagonists.

In addition, the author puts in many of the 'no consequences' events of 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' (a very overrated movie with many cringe worthy characters) washing out the good plot points of 'Groundhog Day.'

I'm further disappointed in the unoriginality of the author who names a main character after Nick Stark of 'Iron Man' fame.

Overall a very disappointing audio book. There are much better 'time travel' audiobooks.

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Need more Liberty

Revisado: 05-13-22

Was disappointed in the story line of this book. Liberty Callahan is one of the best characters that Mr. Baldacci wrote and she appears in much too little scenes.

In the end Mr. Badacci decided to have Archer continue as a long wolf when having Liberty as his side kick would have really enhanced the story line.

Instead we end up with a cliched novel no different than others written using a detective in post WW2 Los Angeles.

Really sad, this novel could have been so much more.

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busy work of a fool

Revisado: 12-23-21

This book was very difficult to listen to. The author himself says "trying to change the past was the busy work of a fool." Yet despite saying that, he deliberately keeps poking in dark corners trying to solve puzzles about his origins. He was a foundling who ended up replacing a kidnapped child.
He finds he is the son of alcoholic parents who mistreated him and his twin sister (who is still unfound at the conclusion of this book) so much so that they abandoned him in front of a store in NJ and did 'god knows what' to their daughter.
His biological siblings decline to help. His biological brother in fact says he doesn't believe the DNA tests (yet another flat earth believer!). So there is no help getting answers there.
Another person 'the old man' gives answers to questions that seem like story lines out of an X Files episode invoking the Chicago mob's involvement in this sordid tale.
What a bunch of dreck. Sometimes its best to let sleeping dogs lie. His biological sister gave the best line of in both of these books when she tells the author that he got out of the bad life that his biological parents gave the other siblings.
The author should spend his time trying to find out where Jimmy Hoffa is buried than beating this dead horse anymore.

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Cry me a river (as the song goes)

Revisado: 08-31-21

I just started listening to this book and couldn't get past the first 30 minutes.
The author is detailing her life as an adopted child. She is a white young woman who gets adopted by a white family shortly after her birth. The family treats her very well. The author is just mad at them and the world because she was adopted (something she finds out when children tease her in 3rd grade).

Cry me a river as the song goes. She has no clue what it is like to be adopted and raised in a family that doesn't treat you well. Or to be of a different race than your adopted family.

If you really want to learn about adoptees who had a tough time growing up listen to "Given Away: Korean Adoptees Tell Their Stories." This is available for free on Audible Plus. It is a difficult listen as the trauma these adoptees go through is heartbreaking; but, it is a far more realistic story than this garbage.

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So confused

Revisado: 08-06-21

I found this book totally confusing. It seems to have been deliberately written this way.

To this day, I still can’t explain the plot of this book.

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Absolute Garbage

Revisado: 07-23-21

I agree with another reviewer, this is soft porn disguised as a Bollywood romance.

Soneela Nankani is a global treasure. Her performance is excellent as usual but there is only so much she can do with a book this bad.

Stay away for your sanity!

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Definitely lagged in the middle

Revisado: 07-16-21

But okay overall. Don’t believe the glowing reviews, they were listening to a different book or were paid to give glowing reviews.

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Really bad

Revisado: 07-15-21

I understand why this book is free on Audible.

There are so many plot holes in this book. Things happen with no real explanation.

Ray Porter’s narration which is usually excellent suffers with this novel as the plot is so disconnected.

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Ray Porter is a national treasure

Revisado: 07-13-21

Ray Porter’s performance is excellent as usual. The story not so much.

This book is actually a re-edited, rerelease of a previous audible book.

The original, which I had the misfortune of purchasing several years ago was horrible. This is slightly better; but that is only relative to the original.

I don’t think I will spend time on the re-edited and re-recorded volume 2 or the upcoming volume 3.

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Weird Book

Revisado: 07-12-21

I finished it and felt like I didn’t understand what the plot of the book.

Very odd ball characters with an even weirder, naive protagonist.

Didn’t really end up appealing to me and I will try to return the book.

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