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not as good as her other books

Revisado: 01-25-24

I'm a bog fan of Moriatity's books, but this isn't up to her usual. I'm giving up at this point because I'm still waiting for a plot to emerge.

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Dismal

Revisado: 09-01-22

I really, really tried to finish this book, if for no other reason than to figure out the point. But I couldn't. The storyline just rambled back and forth between gratuitous fist fights and dull sex scenes. I expected some insight into the cultural impacts of the collapse of steel and coal (which I've lived through), but it never gets there. Dull, pointless, depressing.

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Not ready to be the star

Revisado: 04-30-21

The character of Win may work as a supporting character, but he makes for a very annoying lead. He's pretentious and basically annoying. The fact that the story is told in the first person directly to the reader heightens this effect. He doesn't seem the sort of person I'd like to have dinner with.

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Tedious

Revisado: 11-09-20

This is the third book of a trilogy. The first book set up a fairly interesting mystery. Unfortunatley, the second and third books failed to keep the storyline alive, and instead degenerated into tedious and shallow tales of romance. This final installment is particularly painful, as grown adults move through teen-like romantic angst on the flimsiest of pretense. There is little story arc, and instead a choppy series of vingnettes that is particularly unsatisfying.

And finally, there are so many references to restaurant menus and tourist traps that one wonders if the book was written by the Chamber of Commerce.

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Worst dialogue ever

Revisado: 03-09-20

I'm a big fan of well written, natural-sounding dialog. This book has none of that. With virtually every sentence uttered by a character, I wanted to scream, "An acutal human would never talk that way!" Someone actually explained to a doctor the meaning of "paternal grandfather." Spouses converse in lengthy sentences with multiple clauses. Word choices are stilted. It is all just terribly unnatural.

This problem is exacerbated by the terrible, choppy narration. There is a pause every time the narrator starts a new line of text, breaking up each of the lengthy sentences into unmanagable chunks.

Finally, the plot it on the lame side, too. While familial DNA matching has been a TV trope for several years now, the whole arc of the story hinges on it being something new and virtually unheard of, that has to be explained to medical personnel in the most basic of terms.

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Unrelatable characters, plot falls apart at the en

Revisado: 02-20-15

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

The main character needed to be more of a real person. It was just not possible to relate to her; I just kept thinking, "A real person would never act this way."

What was most disappointing about Sandra Brown’s story?

The "mystery man" has a secret that is kept until the very end, and turns out to be really quite irrational. Once the secret is revealed, it makes no sense at all that the FBI has been pursuing him, and his whole secrecy and mystique becomes illogical.

Have you listened to any of Jonathan Davis’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No.

What character would you cut from Mean Streak?

I wouldn't really remove anyone.

Any additional comments?

Character development in a story is very important to me. In this one, the doctor was really too thin. She's supposedly this committed, intelligent professional, yet she has no ability to think strategically, can't control her temper, and is totally at the mercy of emotional volatility.

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Marginal

Revisado: 10-07-13

First of all, this book had possibly the worst narration ever. The speaker's cadence was choppy and unnatural. Character voices were overdone and cartoonish. It was painful to listen too. And she mispronounced 'chalcedony' for goodness sake - if you're going to read a book based on geology, at least get the mineral names right.

The was compounded by the author's strange style of writing, with many short and incomplete sentences. The overall story was a bit on the implausible side, but I guess OK for the genre.

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Enjoyed the story..

Revisado: 04-19-13

...but found the ending disturbing. It's just another piece of how our society has lost track of the difference between justice and revenge.
The overall storyline, though, was absorbing and made for a great who-dunnit.

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Surprisingly entertaining

Revisado: 04-06-13

I was a little apprehensive about reading a book written from the dog's point of view, but Quinn acutally pulls it off without seeming gimmicky. He manages to evoke the personality of a big ol' dog, happy with everything, convinced his owner is the smartest guy in the world, slightly confused about the details. He loves everyone who gives him a pat or a treat, and quickly forgets about any problems.

I've read the whole series now, and they always put me in a good mood.

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What would happen if...

Revisado: 01-06-13

What would happen if half your town was convinced that the world would end in a couple of days? That's pretty much what is happening to the town of Goodland. It's not a pretty picture, but I think there's a good chance that this story is what would happen. Not heavily intellectual, but a good read.

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