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Animal abuse and death warning

Revisado: 11-26-24

Highly descriptive torturing and killing of an animal made me turn this book off forever. Be warned.

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No

Revisado: 01-26-24

I could keep track of what was going on. It made no sense. I couldn’t keep track of who was who and then a whole subplot about a girl who sees a dude with flippers for hands?? No.

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Ok

Revisado: 05-02-15

The Good: in depth characters, great language, interesting concept, great mystery.
The bad: too many characters. Characters with similar names. Drawn out.
The Ugly: bad narration. Bad narration. Narrator can't read a sentence past the end of the written line. The voices range from good to horribly annoying. Pronunciation is all over the place.
I was disappointed in this, although, it was still quite enjoyable.

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Yawn

Revisado: 04-10-15

This was a great story to go to sleep to, except for the terrible narration that makes screaming children on a plane sound pleasant.
We have way too many characters and the overall story is boring as hell. Sansa and Arya are the only interesting storylines. Every other one could have been dealt with in two chapters, except for the end. It takes about 60 chapters to get interesting.

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Not for me

Revisado: 01-31-15

Did not enjoy. A disjointed story about the human condition. Too many characters and storylines that are left open-ended.

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Same old thing

Revisado: 02-20-14

It's the same Stephanie Plum formula with a few new variables.

Bond capture fails because Lula screws up.
Stephanie can't decide between Joe and Ranger.
Bella hates Stephanie.
Some weird side story.
Lula gets mad at being called fat.
They eat chicken and donuts.
Granny goes to funerals.
Granny fits the modern granny 'shocking' stereotype.
Stephanie loses/ruins several cars.
Stephanie's mom is disappointed in Stephanie's life.
Stephanie is in peril and Ranger rescues her.
Stephanie comes through.


You now have the basic story of the last 5 books. Time to change the formula up.

Lula is excruciatingly annoying. Granny needs less focus. Stephanie needs to grow up. The narrator is fabulous, despite the terrible stupid story/dialogue.

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Another great Connelly book.

Revisado: 11-18-13

I am revisiting this series on its own - not in the shadow of Harry Bosch, whom I adore. This book is a not quite as strong in the main plot, but is well written and really stands as a second book. It suffers a bit from transition-itis, meaning a bit of exposition and character discovery that is important but distracts from the main plot. It's still a very good listen, but not as engaging or suspenseful as Lincoln Lawyer. Still, completely worth the listen and not just because it's there.

I love serials and Mickey is worth investing time in.

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Great Listen

Revisado: 11-18-13

I originally listened to this after a binge of Harry Bosch books and just relistened. I loved it. Excellent narration, good story, and very engaging. There were a few painfully slow parts, but overall, a very fun listen.

This is not a Harry Bosch book. Don't get it if you want that darker noir crotchety detective style. If you want a fun ride with new characters but by a trusted writer, do it. Worth the credit. By far.

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A miss for me

Revisado: 11-01-13

I have no problem suspending disbelief over the premise of having a double. A Tale Of Two Cities has no problem overcoming such a far fetched idea. This book, not so much. Without giving too many spoilers, the idea that a police force is going to place a detective undercover for the murder of a nobody and with no suspicions of larger criminal activity, is where they lost me.
The narration is wonderful, with my only complaint being not enough vocal individuality for each character, but the attempt was made.

The book is too long and the climax, rather underwhelming. By the time the reveal came around, I just didn't care. And after the big reveal? There's still like another hour of book!

I really wanted to like the book more and really tried to suspend disbelief, but I couldn't wait for the book to end.

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I guess I don't get it

Revisado: 08-13-13

This was difficult for me to get through. The first part is horribly boring and I get that it's exposition, but really unentertaining. The book then drones on and on and on. Seemingly unrelated things all end up relating, even though they are a huge stretch. There are too many characters to keep track of unless you keep a chart or binge listen. I did neither, so by the end, I had no idea who half the characters were.
With all the words, by the time you get to the final 5 chapters, details are skipped over while other events never seem to end.
The foreshadowing of times to come (fingerprints in the eighteenth century?) is too smug and happens a number of times. A rape of a drugged male by a female is given almost no attention and the character basically carried on like it was nothing but a bad dream.
Great bedtime listening for me since I couldn't seem to listen for more than 20 minutes.

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