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Burke’s writing & Patton’s narration are a Brilliant pairing

Revisado: 05-07-25

Will Patton’s narration of JL Burke’s richly embroidered cultural identities and the history in which they live is a pure gift in Audible’s library. No writer captures the nuanced truths of his characters and the shameful, mostly hidden, cruel history of our country’s exploitation of people and place as does James Burke. And he somehow manages to find the streaks of gold in the souls of characters who are otherwise wretchedly bereft of obvious goodness. I want to live in every landscape he creates. To witness the stories there.

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Exquisite sense of place and character development. Patton’s narration is the voice of the Bayou in every syllable!

Revisado: 01-02-25

I plan to listen to the entire series for the 2nd time just to experience it all again.

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Horrible Reading

Revisado: 01-13-24

I’m actually stunned that this book made it into Audible. The reading sounds like children in elementary school, the pace is strangely slow and the plot & writing of the novel itself is so predictable, one can almost “read ahead” even absent a written text. I’ve never written a negative review before ~ but no one should spend money on this “book”.

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Ahhh . . . His entwined characters

Revisado: 11-02-23

As a writer I so seldom meet characters in modern fiction as entwined, laudatory in their intentions, enmeshed in their criminal psychological frailties who are driven by such believable implausible narrative ~ so much so that I want to read Mr. Rebotham’s books a second or third time. They are subterranean, gorgeous in suspense. Rich. Every move his writerly touch makes is perfect.

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EXTRAORDINARY

Revisado: 01-23-23

At once incandescent in its lyrical prose, then crackling and popping with taut intelligent insight, wrenched with heartbreaking historical context ~ Prince Harry has given readers what will stand with the best classic work in literature ~ alongside Lucy Grealy, Mary Karr, Annie Dillard, Frank McCourt. The canon of American Literature is going to welcome this voice for a very long time.

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Hire a Better Editor & Reader for 2nd Ed.

Revisado: 06-08-21

This story is important for many, many people. The experiences she shares, nightmarish to inspirational, are very much worth reading, understanding & are conveyed honestly. This is not an easy listen, however. The narration is whiny and overwrought as if the narrator is reading to young children. The writing is similarly burdened with needless, annoying cliches. If I hadn’t been determined to know her ultimate diagnoses, cruelly withheld until the final chapters; I wouldn’t have even suffered through fast forwarding the twenty-plus chapters. Ms Kephart’s awful medical experience deserved more professional attention prior to publication.

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