Pamela Szurek-haney

Lovely lovely story

Revisado: 02-24-25

The full, rich, complete characters and the story in all its simple complexity are especially impressive when read by this narrator!

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The horror

Revisado: 12-21-24

It seems the writer’s premise is that no one is a good person. No one. Not babies or old people or people generally considered do-gooders or keepers of the law, legal or social. Reading this book was like visiting Dante’s Inferno in one of the ice encased circles of hell.

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Original and Fascinating

Revisado: 08-20-24

Well! An original take on a love story, coming of age novel, detective story... is there anything this story wasn't? Interesting charcters, beautifully descriptive, this was a great story to listen to. I like Chu's work. I love this book.

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How can you NOT love 7 perfect things?

Revisado: 11-09-22

It has SVERYTHING: good writing,decent readers, a great story. It has suspense, adventure, romance, and PUPPIES. Yup! That's 7 perfect things.

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Great Story, But Commas Don't Mean That!

Revisado: 11-08-22

The story was great. A lively romance and a great mystery. Some serious social issues dealt with in the framework of a fun story. I found it hard to listen, though, because every time a comma might appear in the writing for grammatical purposes, the narrator paused in a way that ruined conversation. I love you, (long pause) Devon. people don't talk that way! It made my nuts! There ate some TV shows that are being directed to do the same kind of stilted pauses, and it simply sounds like the speaker has momentarily forgotten the name of the person he or she is addressing. The whiny children and hollow Aussie accent on the main male character made me want to stop listening, but the story line was good and it carried the day. Read the book and skip the listen.

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Scary Real-life Drama with, Appropriately, No End

Revisado: 08-14-22

This book was far too close to the reality in which we are living to be comfortable, but I suppose that's the point. The author leads you into the already troubled waters of the life of a small college professor snd her family when a local man goes on a shooting rampage at the local mall. Upset and concerned by the shooting as most of us are, the professor and her family ponder the why's and how's and the how sads of the event, just like everyone, until dragged into the drama by a Facebook post that identified the shooter as one of her students. Another of her students remembered the class she taught and the shooter being "odd" and the paper he wrote for the professor as "disturbing". The cycle of personal disaster this sets up spins out of control, as does the book, until the story stops abruptly in the middle of what's next. This book needs a dozen trigger warnings and an end. At the same time, I wouldn't have wanted to miss it.

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Narration Nightmare

Revisado: 05-22-22

Neither the male nor the female narrator can pronounce words.... the male voice is deep and expressionless. the female reads with questions where there are no questions. I guess I should have read it instead. I do want there to be a real place like Hummingbird Lake and the Mineshack.

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Awakenings

Revisado: 05-07-22

Ora Leigh (sp.) is, the author declares in the post-story notes, a "deeply flawed" character. Yet this story about her and those she loved is compelling, disturbing, fascinating, troubling, and, with God's help, life changing.

As a white woman in the south, the main character narrates her own life changing story about her struggle to become thoughtful and loving, despite her social status and the attitudes of society around her. I won't spoil the story in an outline that explains what I mean. this story deserves to be read or heard the way I read and heard it in an Audio book. Usually I have three or four things going on while I listen to an audio book, but from the beginning, I dropped everything, sitting stock-still and listening, wrapt in words that took me into her world. I hope many many people read this and find themselves opened, seen, and moved as I was.

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Brilliant as the light on water

Revisado: 02-10-22

Such a beautiful book! Reflecting the warmth of the "toasted air", filled with descriptions of places so vivid that the words take you there, and with characters you could sit at table with, whose faces you feel you would recognize if you saw them on the street, this sweet book builds a life for the reader to live,. The author reads her story with such expression and familiarity -- it is like conversation with a dear friend.

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Good story, Phenomenal Narrator

Revisado: 01-21-22

Legends of the world. The universal battle between good and evil. With one serious twist: you simply do not know who is on your side or against you. good and evil are not clear. it is a beautiful paradigm of human life post 2020: you don't know who is good and who is evil. The lines are blurred, and the fight is long.

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