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And Then I ran out of Patience

Revisado: 03-11-25

I liked B. Masterman's other books and was anxiously awaiting to listen to this one. Two sisters living together, one a fixer the other a helpless waif of a rescuer. A husband who returns after a 10 yr absence. The first 'stretch of logic' was the 10 yr absence and the sister not filing for divorce in that time. The bad husband returning with a terminal illness. Is he faking his sickness or is it really true he's going to die? The fixer sister believing he is still a bad man. When he almost shoots his fixer sister in law and there were no repercussions, everyone acting like it was OK no problem, I started to cringe. Logic started to sway, off balance to the consistent 'warning signs' that this man was a monster. The mysterious women he's seen with, the creepy conversations he has with his sister in law, him going berserk breaking things, and still the fixer sister says nothing to her sister the waif. He throws a child out of his mothers room (illegal aliens - waif sister rescues people and dogs) to rape the child's mother under the threat of the bad husband's going to tell ICE about them. When the fixer sister finds out about the rape and still does nothing, and when the bad husband tried to poison the child? that was it. It stretched beyond logic that this man was not reported to the police, all the secrets and lies in that house? It made me sad that I had wasted a credit. I stopped with 3 hrs and 49 minutes left.

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Not As Expected

Revisado: 04-23-24

1. Virtual voice reading misses important voice inflections in its narration - It was poorly presented, it didn't have the impact of a live human reading. I will avoid further virtual narration books.
2. Story line was predictable.
3. I wish I had a nickel for every time the word 'flesh' was spoken. Alright already, we get that the 'thing' ate and tore people to bits. Enough!
4. I enjoyed the relationships in the small town and within the family. It seemed more of a story set in the 40's rather than in the 90's.
5. I don't think I will listen to another book by this author.

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Where was the Mystery? Focus on romantic endeavors

Revisado: 01-16-24

I love the narrator, however this story center was about this vet and the book focusing on shallow smarmy people wanting 'romantic' encounters with him, nothing was explicit, but mostly touch here and touch there but. Where IS the mystery? Most of the characters were shallow, the women were shrieky creatures always always trying to fix the vet up - I am very disappointed - 85% about one night stands, with the mystery part maybe 15% about 'where did this poor special needs boy disappear to?'. the mystery was more of a hint, and could of been really good; the special needs guy finding evidence of wildlife being poisoned. Not a lot of explanation of the vet being hired as a government employee in Utah, no foundation created to set the story on - and Utah? too much dialog about mormons and poor boys escaping their clutches. The book had tendrils of meaningless drivel that was more based upon hating the church hating homosexuals than a mystery. Was this a diversion that the author did to try and make the mystery more interesting? deflection technique in writing? If so, thanks, but I'd rather listen to something less about peoples personal agendas and more about the fascinating stuff about bird cholera. The beginning of the book with the neighbor and a spider - very funny! started to love it then it went sour fast. Sigh

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Too much detail on Sexual stuff

Revisado: 01-06-24

I like this author but this particular book talked a lot about male arousal, fondling, sexual connotations. Even to the point of a drunken Moreno trying to rape Scarpetta ~ the details of sexual stimulation is not needed, the story could of been told and the characters ugly behavior could have been described with out the details. There was a lot of dialog that dragged on between doctors, that didn't lend to the story line. Very disappointed. I love the narrator.

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Not her usual best

Revisado: 08-21-23

The focus on this story had two pathways, 1) the murders 2) The medical examiners personal life.

I would venture to say #2 was about 60% of the storyline. A few twists dealing with other characters was in the story but not enough to pull the focus back from the ME's 'mid life crisis' and her marriage. This left me disappointed as expectations were about a 'gripping' mystery. I will continue to listen (currently about 3/4 through the book) but it's getting harder to keep focused. Disappointed and I hope the next book will be more about the ME process and the dead illuminating their tales.

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Grimms Fairy Tales meets The Walking Dead

Revisado: 01-17-23

The book started very interesting - a story about a film maker and his best friend traveling in Siberia in the hopes of filming a 'teaser' of a movie to sell to the big wigs in Hollywood. The environment is insanely hostile with the cold was well written, the dangers and subsequent education about the towns and people in Siberia was interesting. But after reading the publisher summary about 'super natural' type of story I began to wonder when that was going to show up in the story line. Once it did, I regretted the anticipation -

This book is almost like two different stories but with the same characters. The 'forest spirits' were too 'mystical'. The story devolved into a Grimms Fairy Tale meets the Walking Dead. I didn't care for this part of the book. It was not thrilling, too typical of a monster wanting to eat humans and humans then turning into a monster. I began wishing that the characters had been eaten a long time ago. The difference with this is that the monsters were forest dwellers. But can't there be a new idea ? The writing was good, however really didn't like the mystical forest creature zombie apocalypse.

The narrater was good. The first half of the book was interesting.

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Entertaining Fun and Light

Revisado: 10-06-22

Great little story, a little predictable, but light hearted. Just what i needed while trying to do a cabinet install …. Love Ed Harris reading

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The StereoType Voice of the Native American

Revisado: 09-27-22

The storyline was good, however, I could hardly listen to the monotone and 'mystical' inflection of one of the main characters. The lilting up and down cadence of speech was grating. The 'he says', 'he said' was all the writer could muster - not 'he exclaimed', 'he whispered', 'he responded' just always he said he says --- ack what happened Mr. Krueger?

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Predictable and Not Worthy of a Credit

Revisado: 09-17-22

The story started interestingly enough, but then took a downward spiral focusing on the beautiful, sexy, hot, intelligent female protagonist, add to that the the narrators voice turning Marilyn Monroe soft sexy every time the person was to speak -- it became banal. Then there was this ex-marine: hot, sexy, hard body, aloof, and that with these two they were supposedly to have 'chemistry' and sexual tension. This book belongs in the smaltsy romance category, it was poorly written. What a bore. Where was the mystery? so much of the story was taken up by this main theme of two hot people just waiting to 'get together' that I couldn't figure out what the mystery was about. Nope, not for me, I tried twice to listen to this book, stopped, and returned. Bleh

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Dead person on floor - family stood around talking

Revisado: 09-02-22

I read the reviews, the book sounded so good. But it was very predictable, characters that were low level pond scum, stereotypically written. When someone died the family didn't really show remorse but stood around the body lying in the kitchen and talked about whether the police should be called. Accident? Murder? I will never find out as I had to stop listening with impatience due to the banal blather of the other characters. The narrator was good! so at least that kept me listening for a few hours before I flipped the off switch ....

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