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trigger warning, not for sensible hearts

Revisado: 07-03-23

the very beginning of this book describe an infant loss in terrible details, while the mother is rendered incapacitated but concious and unable to help. Horendous beginning, worst mind images and so hard to get rid of. Not for sensible hearts.

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loveable

Revisado: 05-04-21

I do like that kind of book, where no one is really a bad person but has its quirks, with a lot of hope, a glimpse of surnatural, action, adventure and redemption. An easy listen for those seeking distraction!

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not mainstream

Revisado: 04-29-21

Loved this book, the depth of the characters, the fact that it talks so much about mental states with no taboos or blame and the mix of everyday and extraordinary! Not for everyone I'm sure, but if you like psychologie, soft suspense and getting off the main path I suggest this very entertaining read!

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loved it!

Revisado: 04-14-21

characters lovable, great script, will be taking the rest of the serie, great listen for suspenses lovers

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fun, funny, and fantastic performance

Revisado: 03-18-21

Both main characters are amazingly rendered, the story is wonderfully novel and uncongruous, but its main characteristic is how incredibly funny it is, I laughed and rolled my eyes and shook my head all along! Much too short, but it will be a renewed pleasure to listen to it again a couple years, once I've forgotten some of it!!

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naivety vs realism + cues

Revisado: 03-09-21

Amazing subject, very nicely brought, gives hope for the individual targeted by discrimination, and gives cues as to make society better without having to be miserable to help. Especially, the tought/theory about the threshold over which someone would become too exposed to a wrongfull intent toward its discriminated group was soothing for me, who tought I was just hypereactive but still felt the need to protect myself against one more personnaly unusefull intimate knowledge of violence. Thank you for making those subjects accessible.

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Different, humanity's humanity

Revisado: 02-26-21

Depends on how you like your stories; sometimes brutality adds realism. I think this is the case in this book that otherwise very kindly open your mind to other vues and ways of life. This is told through the eyes of an ever-forgiving messenger, it definitly brings us in a different world.

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Sympathetic protagonists

Revisado: 03-12-12

Very well read by Grover Gardner, this story is engaging and I kept listening to see how everything was going to unfold.

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Great introduction to a great series

Revisado: 02-13-12

I read this after book #8 of this series, and am glad that while it cleared up some finer points of the 8th book, no harm was done to my enjoyment through reading them out of order.
The protagonist Andy Carpenter is a dog-loving attorney with enough self-deprecating humour that I can forgive him living in a world without all the niggling problems we mere mortals encounter everyday. Then he inherits 22 million $. Thankfully he puts his money to good use to help unfortunate victims of crime.
The who-dunnit part is interesting but not terribly surprising, which doesn't bother me as I listen to books more to have a glimpse into other people's life than to give my brain a work-out.

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Very interesting take on history

Revisado: 02-13-12

This book brings history close to home through it's examination of the influence the stuff we chose to drink had on world development, from water through to harder stuff.
It makes me think of books like "Salt", but was less exhaustive - as well as shorter and more to the point.
While not the deepest book about history, it was very interesting.

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