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Witty, intelligent, and insightful.

Revisado: 05-03-24

The View From Down Here is incredibly well written. Lucy Webster had me nodding my head, chuckling, and laughing as well as sharing her frustration and anger at being disabled and female in a world mainly built and by able bodied males.

I finished it in 24 hours and will be listening again and recommending it to friends and others in the accessibility and software development space. (I do web accessibility and speak and write about coding with accessibility as the default for both end users and fellow tech professionals. )

Listening has been like rolling into a cozy accessible pub listening to a riveting friend share her stories.

(I’m also a wheelchair user.)

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New favourite author

Revisado: 01-21-24

Witty, fun, quotable storytelling! Great performance by narrator.
Highly recommend this series or her other ones.

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Great book. Can’t wait for the next in series!

Revisado: 12-11-23

Really awesome book. The depth of the background story is wonderful. It’s kept me engaged - even on a bad migraine day. The character development is great.
I’ve found a new favourite author!

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Poorly researched

Revisado: 03-13-20

(Note I have a B.A. in Social Anthropology, so I’ve done my own research - reading, listening, and asking- because I didn’t understand somethings.)

Both the first book and this one are very poor representations of Dominant submissive relationships in particular and bdsm in general. Read any decently well researched article (The Atlantic has a few good ones.)

They’re more a vanilla view of the culture than one written by someone who’s taken the time to learn (which doesn’t necessarily mean practice ... just listen and read and learn) about the culture and rules.

Not one mention of SSC -Safe Sane Consensual something that’s in almost every bdsm 101 ... and Christian gives her wine so she’ll talk honestly instead of guiding her and helping her. Not good Dom behaviour.

The good thing is the books’ popularity have gotten more people talking openly about many things surrounding sexuality, conscent, abuse, communication, honesty, and relationship dynamics.
Conversation, learning and communication are wonderful.

The narrator was ok - not a favourite, but didn’t stop me from listening.

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Narrator needs to slow down

Revisado: 10-11-17

The narrator really needs to slow down. It sounds like someone is trying to speed read aloud. The story sounds interesting for urban fantasy, but I couldn’t get past the second chapter (15 minutes in).
I just finished the six Cosy Witch; audiobooks by Tess Lake (4-5/5). I was hoping to find another urban fantasy series to listen to at bedtime and around the house. But it’s not this one - nor any other read by this narrator. I’m returning this one and might buy the ebook sometime later.

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Great book, terrible sound quality

Revisado: 02-12-17

Yet another amusing and intelligent Discworld book in the City Watch storyline. The Narrator does a good job. It's a pity that half of the book sounds like a tape recording of a scratchy record.

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