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Perfect for audio

Revisado: 03-08-23

Some books are meant for audio. This is one. Lots of action, different characters, differing viewpoints. With audio , I find long sequences of internal musings from an omniscient POV to be boring and tedious, even if it’s an author I like. This was very entertaining and the varied voice actors were so excellent, really exceptional. Highly recommend for an atmospheric who done it !

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Gorier than usual

Revisado: 02-21-23

I’ve read all of Patricia Gibney’s Lottie Parker mysteries and I thought this one was good, perhaps not as good plot wise as her earlier work, though. Love the characters, especially Lottie, and the down to earth people of Ragmullin. The storyline suffered from too many forced twists, and the torture stuff was too much and frankly pointless, just there for the sadists I guess (joke). Still worth reading especially for those us who are fans.

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Enjoyable

Revisado: 01-18-23

Quite an enjoyable listen. Lots of twists I didn’t see or predict. I am from Tucson AZ, and while the voice actor did a great job, she may want to work on her American accents. People who are from the West do not have mid Atlantic or posh Manhattan accents. Lol. Esther was the worst…Es-tah would be at home in the upper East Side NY, Es-ter would be from Tucson. The Oklahoma-ish accent of the villain was decent though. Aside from that narrative and plot were great.

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Enthralling

Revisado: 01-14-23

Took a chance on an unknown author. So worth it! This was a perfect book for audio. The voice actor was absolutely wonderful, the various plot threads kept me enthralled and the author’s exploration of interspecies relationships was amusing and rather kinky. The only flaw? I wanted to know Nero’s fate.

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Clever and enjoyable

Revisado: 11-19-22

A feminist (adjacent) tale of the inimitable Lydia of Pride and Prejudice fame. Austen’s novels have been done to death, IMO, and I haven’t been interested in them since 8th grade. This however, is a charming and wickedly funny little story. Retrieving her whoremonger husband from a brothel opens the story, and it is naughty and poignant by turns. Liked the guitar riffs and jarring rock music as a counterpoint to this ironic and clever piece. Love Jessie Buckley as the titular Lydia, and all other actors do a fine job. Enjoy

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Disappointing let down

Revisado: 11-19-22

I have to say Ellie Griffiths is a favorite author of mine. I’ve read all the Ruth Galloway books, and think of Ruth as an old friend. I bought a credit so I could listen to Bleeding Heart Yard on a long car trip and stopped listening half way through. The only characters I found appealing were Harbinder and Meta. Way way too much reminiscing from dull, unlikeable Cassie, Anna and Chris. The “murder mystery” was solved by deus ex machina to provide a facile happy ending. I had to speed it up and only listen to Harbinder sections and then the epilogue to get through it. A disappointing let down from one of my favored authors. Hope the next one is better!

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Listen to this book!

Revisado: 09-12-22

Daisy Darker is lovely and very very dark. And also a whimsical and intriguing who done it

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This is hard work

Revisado: 08-02-22

I can’t return this now, so I’m trying so hard to listen to this asinine novel. I’ve read other Ruth Ware novels, and I can’t believe I wasted a credit on this. Just not good. Silly ridiculous crap. I keep hoping April will be strangled soon because she deserves it, and I hate her voice.

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Couldn’t finish

Revisado: 06-08-22

Nicely written, but at least twice as long as it should have been. Lovely narration but the extremely slow pace and lack of movement forward killed it for me. I finally gave up. Lengthy,tedious descriptions of childhood fantasies were annoying and boring, and should have been pruned to a few sentences. I still don’t know what the big trauma was and that was the heart of the book, but I’m ok with shutting the door on this one. Not ok with wasting a credit but audible won’t let me return the book.

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Couldn’t finish

Revisado: 05-14-22

I really enjoy Lisa Jewel and have read many of her books, but I just could not get into this one. I could see where it was going from the first chapter (and the title) and that’s fine, however I have found that some novels are more suited to reading than listening…this was one of them. The narrator was excellent, the story was intriguing for a few chapters, but when I started reading Twitter and Reddit posts while listening I threw in the towel. Too much. Maybe I’ll check it out from the library.

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