D. MacNair

Wonderful story!

Revisado: 10-23-24

Unexpected rendition of Esther's story! very well written and narrated. <3 I was hooked and really enjoyed it.

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great narrator

Revisado: 12-21-23

great narrator, and the book is wonderful. it is like being immersed in Season 1!

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Great book! (Terrible Narrator)

Revisado: 02-25-22

This is a case of a fabulous book (series) dragged down and nearly ruined by a terrible Narrator. I have loves this series all of my adult life, and have waited for it to come out in audiobook format for TWO decades. You cab imagine how elated I was to find out that it was coming to audio! I waited eagerly and saved the books up until I had them all, so I could binge them at work.

I was horrified and very disappointed to find that the Narrator mispronounced many words (even common words that anyone ought to know how to pronounce) and consistently mangled pronunciation to the point of distraction. Her portrayal of the characters was awful, with monotone, inflectionless male voices and often ridiculous, screechy female voices. If I hadn't known how great the books really were, I never would have made it past the first few chapters and I fear the series will suffer. it really is too bad, because the book itself is worthy of 10 stars. but the performance was horrible.

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WAY too short

Revisado: 10-01-21

Great storytelling, respectfully done, very entertaining. But I am a little confused. about an hour left of this VERY short book and while the title implies it is about Joseph, it is more about the family during the time of Shechem and just after. I expected it to be about Joseph's slavery into Egypt and the saving of his family during the famine...but clearly it isn't going there. I do wish it was even twice as long ( hours is still not a very long audiobook) and contained the whole story. Still John Noble is a good writer and I find his style very easy to listen to and enjoy, and I really like Jarrett as the narrator. He does a fabulous job and really brings the story to life.

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Great work.

Revisado: 10-01-21

Could be longer, but well-written story, very respectfully done, and the narrator was great! The only things I can pick at are that 1) I seriously doubt they shook hands in the Old Testament, though I am sure they had an equivalent and 2) the phrase "Okay" was part of an American Presidential campaign and as such probably would not have been used in the OT ;) But overall I loved it and wished it were longer.

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Treecat Binge!!

Revisado: 03-24-21

If you are a fan of the Honorverse, you will love this series. Made for a younger audience, it still fills the imagination with the wonder of Sphinx, its early life and the world into which the Harringtons inserted themselves. If you can't get enough of Treecats, this series is HEAVEN!

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Entertaining but ...

Revisado: 01-21-21

If you are looking for a novel about Eve that honors the Bible, this is not the book for you. well, maybe to be fair, in some ways it does and some ways it does not. It draws heavily from "higher critical" thinking on the validity of the Torah's authorship and clearly thinks nothing of making God (Elohim) out to be (possibly) one of many gods, not all-knowing, not all-powerful, not in control of Creation. While He tells them He created them, when they are banished (amidst a frighteningly childish display of tantrum by God) they find other people. They don't know where they came from. Did God not know they were there? Clearly they are older than Adam and Eve with a well-established culture and religion already known deities such as Inanna. Did God lie about Adam and Eve being created by God first? As Adam and Eve witnessed predation and death, experienced injury even while in the garden, what point is the Curse? How is it a punishment, when it is portrayed as a normal and created part of God's Earth? The book is inconsistent, self-contradictory, and belittles the authority and trustworthiness of the Bible, whether intentionally or inadvertently. The plot is intriguing and the characters well-written, and it is better than some Eve stories I have read, but overall I am left aching for a story of Eve that resonates better with my heart, and this is not it.

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New Narrator please

Revisado: 11-06-20

I understand that this book was written with a youth audience in mind, but it feels a little shallow. The plot is great, but it just feels like it could be fleshed out a lot more. The progression of events seemed rushed and confusing, and at many points I wondered if this was really a poorly edited abridgement, even though it says it is unabridged. The narrator reads way too fast and does not portray feelings or the events of the story appropriately. Her inflection is too robotic and quick to allow the story to move the reader along with the twists and turns. It ends up feeling like a 9th grade oral report. At one point I realized the narrator sounded like a female version of Doug the Dog..at that point I lost connection completely...Doug is adorable but wholly inappropriate for the gravity of a Biblical Fiction/romance. I hate to give it a low rating, because I did enjoy the story. But I would recommend it for young readers and...maybe just read the book...

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Purely Awesome!

Revisado: 06-03-20

I don't generally go for WWII but my hubby got me interested by combining the phrases WWII, sentient Lemurs, and sentient Velociraptors. I had to check it out and was hooked forever by just a couple of chapters in. The narrator, William Dufris (now deceased, sadly) personifies the entire story with excellence, giving voice to the characters with wit and charm and a lot of skill. This book is the opening to a sweeping 15-book adventure saga that leaves you crying for more every time a book ends. Vividly depicted, sometimes a bit graphic (obviously necessary, it is a war story after all) and there is quite a lot of bad language (which sometimes adds humor), but getting past that, it is definitely one of my favorite series EVER. If you listen at work or on long commutes, this series will give you LOTS of listening time, as most of the books average 15+ hours long. If they had an option for 10 stars, Taylor Anderson and William Dufris have earned every one of 10 for this series!

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Ridiculous.

Revisado: 11-09-19

Hated it and was very disappointed. The premise is preposterous. I have heard of the Ethiopians who claim they have the Ark, but I don't for a minute believe it. They claim that Solomon and the Queen of Sheba had a love-child who stole the Ark from the Temple and took it to Ethiopia. The book bases this not on any Biblical text but purely on local claims of the people who claim to be the caretakers of the Ark, and on various hidden architectural clues left in Medieval architecture and Catholic statuary found there. It then goes on to forward an obscure and bizarre idea that the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail are actually one and the same, the former actually not being a box made by Moses, and the latter not actually being the cup used at the Last Supper, and then comparing the two of these to the Virgin Mary, and it all just became some weird gnostic Catholic secret that I do not for a minute believe. On the historical side, I think it is much more plausible to believe the Ark was secreted out of the Temple by priests much later, closer to the time of judgement when the Babylonians carried off the Temple items as plunder, to save it from that fate. It makes no sense at all that the Ark would have been stolen literally RIGHT after the Temple of Solomon was built. For me, this book was a disappointing waste of time. I think Raiders of the Lost Ark has more historically and Biblically accurate detail and makes far more sense than this gnostic mumbo jumbo.

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