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True to the series.

Revisado: 12-02-21

This is not a Hollywood ending. It's somewhat gritty, a little sad, and alot screwed up. It's perfect.

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Weakest work in the series.

Revisado: 07-15-20

The book feels forced, rushed, and cobbled together with a deus ex machina ending in place of the detective dresden debriefing and reflection that the other novels have executed well. An argument could be made that this is a part 1 installment, but the book is short and plot points feels undeveloped compared to previous installments. There is also more repitition of description in this novel. Dresden spends more time comparing himself to marvel comic super heros than he does devoting any cognitive effort toward solving the problems he is presented with. Combat exchanges in this novel are superficial and devoid of dresden's trademark cleverness. This book has an abundance of what I assume is fan service, and I'm disappointed in the final product.

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Great read, brain candy with no artificial sugar.

Revisado: 03-31-19

This book is an order of magnitude more cohesive than previous installments in the series.

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Nothing happens in this book.

Revisado: 01-23-17

First 6 hours are a retelling of events presented in the previous installment. The remaining time could have been replaced with a few sentences from the wiki. Overall this volume feels very "phoned in" and I struggled to remain interested in story. Fortunately, in all the times my mind wandered and I needed to go back and relisten I never actually missed anything.

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Don't know why I keep buying these.

Revisado: 05-05-15

Sex, Sex, Violence. See how that phrase doesn't include the word plot? That is because in this book the plot is an excuse to write in more sex and violence.

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A step back...

Revisado: 04-11-15

Character developments in this installment were almost irrationally inconsistent with how the same characters are developed in earlier installments of this series. So much of what happens in this novel lacks the authors traditionally well explored character motivations. I realize this is half of a book, but I think if someone had given me a 5 minute synopses of "lots of people do things and then the surprise lizards eat everyone", I could have skipped DOD and gone right to TCG.

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Vengeance, loss, and righteous wrath? Yes please!

Revisado: 03-10-15

I would not recommend this book to a young adult, but everyone else is getting a copy for Christmas. PS I did not like the hunger games and do not think comparisons to other popular fiction are good predictors of whether or not you will like this series.

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More Ogres

Revisado: 03-05-15

This book had too many silly humans in it and would be much improved if all chapters not pertaining to the ogres were removed.

Simple and easy to listen to.

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All my horses have been beaten to death...

Revisado: 03-03-15

Daytime television assumes that I don't have the long term memory skills to make it a week without a reminder, so they provide me a recap at the beginning of each new episode. M. Hogan assumes that I need the salient plot points force fed to me EVERY THIRD PARAGRAPH. I don't mind relistening to a passage if I missed something. I do mind hearing the same blunt statement in the same words every 5 minutes. As I listen to this book, I picture the main character looking at a post it note every few steps and thinking "Oh that's right, I really need to find a way to help Miranda!"

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Sad

Revisado: 02-18-15

I do not have the words to express how little justice the end of this book does to the odd thomas series as a whole. Very sad day.

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