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meh

Revisado: 12-13-24

Good story. not great narration. very abridged version. read the book instead or redo this audio book please

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Fantastic Listen

Revisado: 04-29-24

we all know the general story, but now is your chance to hear it in it's full detail. Andy Serkis does an amazing job

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Thrawn is awesome

Revisado: 03-17-24

Another great Thrawn prequel story. Expertly written and wonderfully produced and performed as an audio book.

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Another great Star Wars story

Revisado: 02-13-24

Each book in this series gets better and better. Thrawn is one of the best characters ever introduced.

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Cute romance

Revisado: 03-07-21

Cute enemies-to-lovers college romance. I would recommend to my romance loving friends. Rachel and Ethan, two frenemies who profess to hate each other. Despite this, they've kept in touch through letters since they were seven. It didn't matter if they were right nextdoor or half a world away. Our story really begins senior year of college, where a series of unfortunate events leads to them being roommates. They find their relationship changing, or merely evolving, into something new. Maybe what it was always meant to be all along.

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All wrapped up

Revisado: 03-04-21

An ok ending to a great series. Can't say it's my favorite book in the whole series, but it wraps up all the loose threads quite nicely. I can only assume this is the end for these characters, unless we see them pop up occasionally in other people's stories. I'm sorry to see them go if that does turn out to be the case. I've really enjoyed Ian and Veritas's romance. They are not two characters I would have thought to put together. I guess that's why I'm not a bestselling author. This book seemed a little more contrived than previous installments. I got the sense that she didn't put as much thought into the storyline. Maybe she didn't know where she wanted to go with these characters after she finished the last book. There definitely wasn't as much set up as there usually is. The beginning is the part that I found the most contrived. It felt very shoehorned in. The overall book kind of felt that way. I found the ending to be a little abrupt but other than that it came to a satisfying ending. If you want to know what happens...read the book.

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Not sure how I feel about this one

Revisado: 01-06-21

This is going to be a hard review for me to write. Mostly because I'm not sure how I feel about the book. My feelings aren't conflicted as much as simply complicated(oxymoron?). I found the story riveting from the very beginning and could barely put it down. The confusion comes from the fact I'm not sure I could say that I liked the story. I can't say I disliked it. I didn't find it entertaining, but it certainly held my interest. It wasn't a sweet story, but there were sweet, heartfelt moments. I'm not sure what genre I'd put it in. Fantasy horror with a little romance sprinkled in? See what I mean? Complicated.

I imagine my experience with this book would have been very different if I'd listened to it back in 2018 when I bought it. Instead, I started it in January 2021 😂🤣😭😭 I found the beginning of this book very difficult to listen to. I almost had to turn it off. I managed to power through and I'm glad that I did. I found the rest easier to finish. That said, I would offer a warning, this book deals with a devastating pandemic and its aftereffects. Anyone particularly sensitive to that subject due to current world issues should probably steer clear.

Overall, I found this book to be a fresh take on the post apocalyptic survival story. It is also a fantasy story with peoples other than human, including what could be termed as the main protagonists. It's not the first book I've read where a disaster greatly reduces the human population and, as a result, they suddenly find out that witches and fairies exist, but even that had an interesting twist to it. This is one of the more unique stories I've read in a long time. So if you are looking for something off the beaten path, give it a whirl.

While the series is written as a trilogy, the main story arc does have a somewhat satisfying ending. I'd term it happy-for-now I guess. I look forward to starting the next book which I already own. I'm planning to start it in the next few days, after taking just a little more time to process this one. I usually start sequels as soon as the first book ends, but it seemed like a good idea to give this one a little space. I'm not meaning to be dramatic, it's really not that bad. In some ways, I suppose that's worse. I'm mostly a romance reader, but I dive into horror on occasion when I'm looking for something different. With horror you expect it, so it doesn't effect you the same. When there are both triumphs and losses, it makes the losses all the more devastating. I do want to get to the sequel though. I'm hoping to find out what happened to certain people as there's a cliffhanger of sorts. The sequel seems to be set 13 years later. Which I can't say makes me very happy on that front, but hopefully I'll still discover the fates of all the characters I've come to care about. I think this turned into less of a review and more of a rant. Sorry for that.

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Glad I took a chance on this one...

Revisado: 01-01-21

This is the first book I've listened to by this author and I quite enjoyed it. It's a fantasy romance along a completely different vain than any I've read before and I really liked it. Our two heroes are from two different races that find each other hideous which lent a good deal of humor to the story. They only come together as part of an arranged marriage to secure a political alliance and trade agreement between their two kingdoms. They first meet by chance in the garden on their wedding day, not at first realizing who the other is. This makes for a nice little introduction, not only into these two characters, but into the greater world building. There are a lot of themes in this book beyond the romance that apply to the real world outside, especially regarding cultural misinformation and misunderstandings both big and small. There's a lot we could learn from these characters and how they handle many of these situations that could be applied locally and on a global scale. Thank you Ms. Draven for giving this story some true depth. The romance ain't bad either 😉

A little bit of a warning to those it might bother...there is a second book and a bit of a cliffhanger at the end. Also there were some technical issues. The narrator mispronounced a few words but nothing too egregious. There were a few editing errors where there was background noise, it skipped or something, a word or phrase repeated, narrator made a weird noise. It was still very listenable. I've certainly heard worse.

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Not this author's best work

Revisado: 12-13-20

I bought this book because I'm a fan of Suzanne Wright. I love her Phoenix and Mercury Pack series. I expected to like her vampire series just as much. Unfortunately I find myself somewhat disappointed. It's not that it was a bad book, I just found the story to be rather meh. I think it had a lot of potential but there just seemed to be something important missing. It's possible I'm not being fair to the story though. I might have found it more enjoyable with different narrators. Both of the narrators ruined this one for me. I found the female narration to be average and boring but worlds better than the male narration which was just atrocious.

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Entertaining

Revisado: 11-15-20 El oyente recibió este título gratis

Not my usual cup of tea, but I found it to be thoroughly entertaining. This was the first book I read by this author and I would certainly be willing to read another. While I didn't find this book to be laugh-out-loud funny, it was humorous throughout. It did get a few good chuckles out of me. I would recommend this book to someone who enjoys funny, wacky stories and isn't easily offended or squeamish.

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