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One of my top 4 favorites

Revisado: 03-01-25

Loved it. Loved everything about it. I laughed out loud. Giggled. Teared up. Was caught off guard. Loved the depth of the characters. The narrator did them justice.

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A personal memoir

Revisado: 01-15-25

Never sure where it was going … and then it ended. Philosophizing throughout over immigration, border policy and ethics, human toll, Read in a halting cadence and seemed as if the writer was suffering in a depression, understandably so.

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Complex characters

Revisado: 09-05-24

I enjoy complex characters with definite character development along with historical fiction. It was a little long but in the end I’m glad I stuck with it. I was more drawn to the personalities of the past. I couldn’t relate to or sympathize with the parallel present day characters of the movie industry but ultimately a thoughtful decision prevailed. You’ll have to finish the book to understand what I mean.

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This psychologist should not be in practice

Revisado: 09-26-22

I spent the first 7/8’s of the book not liking “Margaux” because of her obvious, bad, unethical, choices regarding her clients. But I pushed on and found out at the end….”oh, that’s why.” Still didn’t like her.

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Entertaining enough

Revisado: 09-10-22

Stays true to the character of Holmes being a brilliant, narcissistic egomaniac. The “scuffles”, of which there are many, were a little distracting with all the huffing and puffing. Otherwise it seemed to keep me listening. Audio stories with multiple characters voiced by multiple actors can be so much more engaging than a single narrator. Though I have listened to many books with wonderful narrators.

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Sugary Sweet

Revisado: 08-09-22

No irony in the title. They are children of fortune. Everyone loves everyone. Everything turns out perfectly for everyone. I finished the story just in case a meteor fell on all of them gathered at the end. But no. It felt like a reading of old fashioned letter writing where letters contained everything from the weather to who came to visit to how the crops are doing. Would have been more interesting to me had the story started with Beatrix, her loveless marriage and Edward’s unrequited love.

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Almost put it down

Revisado: 02-12-22

…but I was hoping to find one redeeming element to make this worth the time spent listening. Life is not all rainbows and historical context must be considered, but to have one generation after another be filled with so much violence, hatred, misogyny, abuse and evil mainly, though not solely, at the hands of one man made for a depressing read.

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Descriptive

Revisado: 06-19-21

If you like very descriptive poetic writing you may like this story. I found my mind wandering at times through accounts of individual characters emotions.

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Short and sweet.

Revisado: 04-25-21

This writing gives weight to the facts known about the Oatmans through an LA Times interview after her return to white society and the Stratton book that propelled Olives story to speaking tours and continued fame. Any suppositions are drawn from what is known about how people lived at that time, the Mormon migration west, and the surviving brother. I would have liked to know more about the Mojave people and what is known about their culture, particularly because it mentions Mojave researchers dispute the Stratton version of the story. Otherwise not much more can be added without turning it into historical fiction.

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