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Love the story line, but….

Revisado: 12-31-24

I’ve read up to book 6 and will be reading the rest of the series as soon as I finish this review. I’m enjoying the story lines, the personalities of the characters, the setting, but I have to admit that I’m pretty put off by the narrator. Megan’s voice is great, but most of the male characters including the main ones, Adam and Eric, are so low, slow, stilted, droning, and utterly lacking in personality, that I picture them as zombies lurching through the stories. The older ladies, specifically Connie, has a voice that calls to mind the image of the Wicked Witch of the West, and after hearing all the “Good morning my dearrrrrs,” and there’s a butt ton of those, I expect her next proclamation to be, “I’ll get you my pretty! And your little dog too!!!” Then there’s friend April’s voice…. A tall willowy woman isn’t going to have the high pitched breathy voice that sounds like a 6 year old voicing her Barbies. I would have spared myself all of the off putting voices and just read the books so I didn’t have the mental images of zombie men, witchy women, and adult Barbie voiced women to throw giant auditory wrenches into what is otherwise a very enjoyable series, but I prefer audible books so I can knit while I listen to the books. If I could think of another way to read and knit simultaneously, I’d be all over it.

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Riveting

Revisado: 12-23-24

Amazingly imaginative story, but I think it was made even more amazing because of the performance of the narrator, Peter Kenny. He was very believably all the characters throughout the entire story.

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Rivetingly Authentic

Revisado: 08-20-24

I didn’t expect to love this story as much as I did since I have no personal experience or affiliation with that part of the country or hillbilly identifying people, but I did love it. I loved that the author narrated the audiobook, and his heart and passion for his family, however flawed, was so clearly evident. It was laugh out loud funny occasionally, and tear inducing sad sometimes. I listened to it in one fell swoop and was awake all night until it was done because it was an audiobook I could not put down.

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Emotional and Historical, wonderfully crafted Story

Revisado: 01-16-24

I was instantly hooked on this audio book, and I loved how fully fleshed out the characters were. I felt like I knew them, and felt pain with their pain, and yep, I certainly cried over some of that pain. I came to love and admire many of the characters, and the horses in Martha’s care as well.

I love how this was a glimpse into the past that progressed into the future of these characters during a difficult time in world history, then beyond. My grandfather would have been the same age as the main character, Martha, and went to France to fight in World War I, so I got a sense of what life was like for him growing up on a farm, in his case Southern Idaho, then going off to war. I love historical fiction, and this is among the best books of historical fiction I have lucky enough to listen to. I look forward to reading or listening to more books by Molly Gloss in the future.

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It was a Good Yarn

Revisado: 01-30-23

It was a little confusing at first, figuring out all the characters and who belonged with who, but the narrator did such an exceptional job of voicing everyone in such a way, that soon I was able to know who was “talking” just by the way she was voicing them. Very impressive! I felt like I got to know and appreciate all of them and their story lines, which all tied together nicely and concluded in a very satisfactory way, it was an enjoyable listen to knit along to,

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Historically fascinating

Revisado: 01-16-23

What a complex and tragic person Mary Lincoln was, proven in her own words in the volume of letters found. No doubt she would have been medically and psychiatrically treated better today with better understanding and treatments of what was actually going on with her- It appeared that they did the best that they could for her at the time.

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Fascinating content

Revisado: 01-05-23

A subject that I am very interested in, so I listened to the audible version in one sitting. I would and probably will read all of his books-

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My favorite genre of books to read or listen to

Revisado: 01-04-23

I loved everything about this audible book. The stories were all interesting and meaningful, and the readers in this particular book were especially good. So happy I made this purchase

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The narrator’s voice was off putting

Revisado: 01-02-23

Mollie Hemingway is a very thorough and reliable researcher and journalist, and while I trust her information and found it interesting, if not depressing, I found the narrator’s brittle School marmish voice something I grew very fatigued to listen to. Kind of like listening to a lecture by someone’s officious Grandma. I would have much preferred that it had been in Mollie’s voice, or someone similar.

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Interesting Information

Revisado: 04-05-22

I am fascinated by the subject of reincarnation and I read (or listen to) any books I can find on it. This audible book was loaded with a lot of information and highlighted a lot of the early researchers. My only complaint was I was put off by the narrator and his gross misinterpretations of common names. It sometimes took me a while to figure out who or where he was talking about. Edgar Cayce is not pronounced “Case,” it’s pronounced “Casey,” Helen Wambaugh was not “Wom-batch,” Myanmar he pronounced “Myna-Mar,” Lake Elsinore is pronounced like it looks, not “Ellisnore,” etc. having a British accent doesn’t make it OK to mispronounce common names. I would have enjoyed this book much more with a different narrator.

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