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All readers were miscast

Revisado: 01-24-25

This was a very enjoyable story. The readers were all inappropriately cast. If you can get past that, its a great read.

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Bravo to the reader

Revisado: 06-18-24

First of all, I am NOT a science fiction reader. This story, however, is given an irresistible charm and coherence by the reader. Rylan Grace is brought to life by an unquestionably brilliant narration. There is an understandable amount of verisimilitude in the plot itself, but what a fun ride! It is first and foremost a story of friendship and the greater good.

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Something new

Revisado: 12-07-23

The book starts off as a craft of keen observation and satire. Then it suddenly goes off the rails and turns into an observation in satirical and experiential high school mean girls. The writer has a talent that hits each line with just the right phrasing and word choice. Definitely read to be taken on a ride.

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Japan’s Finest

Revisado: 09-23-23

First of all, the narrator did an amazing job. She is an Asian woman telling a Japanese story. Don’t regard the haters who did not appreciate her voice.
Natsuo Kirino is in a class all her own. This is a brilliantly wrought cat and mouse story with a deeper facet of darkness found in the sewers of human condition. I highly recommend this author.

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Disappointing IRL

Revisado: 07-13-23

90 percent of this novel is a dumb YA cheesy romance, while the ending reveals the most horrific experience a child could have, and the antagonist escapes within 10 seconds of being discovered. The world needs the worst of the worst to face actual consequences, not take the easy way out. This happens so often in real life. It would have been a more redeeming dénouement had the criminal lived with his crime possessing the shame he deserved. There are too many real life victims who deserve better justice. This novel cheats its own heroine.

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Engrossing

Revisado: 07-07-23

Confidently written as if historical fact, this work of art compels you to listen, to relate, to have your heart broken. Reads like classical literature.

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Great Reader

Revisado: 01-01-23

The reader does a great job. Each character was properly characterized by this talented gentleman.

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Reality is 1K times worse.

Revisado: 07-02-22

I knew nothing about this author before purchasing the book. Noting that the name was not Hispanic, I looked her up. I’m not sure whether to promote this stereotype ridden, watered down version of the true terrors that happen to persons who immigrate to America’s south or to trash it for being as much. All I can say to non Hispanic readers is to be well aware that reality is incomprehensibly worse. Having cared for small migrant children, I have been told so many stories of their experience. The border patrol ransom is true. In many ways, they are worse than cartel. Read this book as a work meant for non Hispanics to gain a little empathy for what people go through just for the chance to earn a living in this country. However, keep in mind that the author has no fundamental cultural connection to this content in any way. She tells you a gripping story. But not an authentic and truly harrowing one. Not even close.

*the reader is Hispanic, but her accent that should relay a Mexican national is waaaaay off. The only Spanish that would resemble hers is the one of Beto.

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Quirky

Revisado: 03-13-22

This is everything you could want from a quirky collection of short stories, though the stories were not as compelling as I’d expected.

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Not to be divisive

Revisado: 12-27-21

The only bad reviews are by people who have never walked in minority shoes. Be that of race or any other social difference. This is an important book to those who feel the issues the characters deal with in reality. They are felt to the core of one’s being. Nothing has been resolved, only one’s own ability to cope, to stifle the heart, to keep going and living despite oneself… softly crying in the background of the noise.

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