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Unbelievably amusing - but it now

Revisado: 07-28-24

I started my John Scalzi adventure years ago with Lock In, but honestly this one has quickly become my favorite. It’s so well written & read. Could anyone be better suited to read Scalzi than Will Wheaton? No, definitely not!

This is suspenseful, keeps the reader engaged & has well developed characters, but honestly it’s the immensely dry humor that just puts it over the top. I literally LOL multiple times while listening to this.

Buy it now. You won’t regret it. (And also you’ll never look at your cat the same again.)

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Uncharacteristically drab & unlikable

Revisado: 05-17-24

Usually love this author, but couldn’t get past first few chapters of this one. Characters were not engaging & storyline was predictably grating. May just be me, but I’d skip this one.

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Sweet & Funny

Revisado: 06-07-23

Loved this story! At first it might seem a bit unbelievable as the main characters fell for each very quickly, but honestly that happened to me so guess it’s not unbelievable at all! Story was so well written I didn’t want to stop listening. And was LOL funny at times which I genuinely appreciated. We’ll worth the time and credit. Add it to your list.

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Excellent performance, still pretty good story

Revisado: 07-15-22

I read this 30 yrs ago as it was one of the only books in the tiny gay section of the bookstore. I was thrilled to be able to listen on audio with Jean Smart narrating. Story still holds up pretty well given it’s historical context. I understand the criticism of some readers around language choices to describe sex for example, but I can’t imagine being a young lesbian at that time with no reference for what you are feeling. This is a beautifully written love story set in a time when it was incredibly dangerous to be anything other than the norm. Holds up pretty good.

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Rare Miss for a Favored Author

Revisado: 06-22-22

Wow. I was so disappointed in this effort by Beers. I usually love everything she does & bought this without a listen to the narrator. Big mistake. Or maybe it just wasn’t for me. Either way, ended up very disappointed from the beginning.

Characters were a bit shallow in development. I appreciated the diversion to every day folks - one of the main characters is a nursing aide working on going to nursing school, the other a new business owner having taken over family’s neighborhood bar. But the narration was so unnerving that I really struggled to finish it. I was so far in, I forced myself to do so but it was a loss. Skip this one. I won’t be completing the series.

Will be hopeful for a return to this author’s better works in near future.

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Painfully bad Narrator, lackluster characters

Revisado: 05-07-22

I bought this because it was written by Georgia Beers without a sample listen or reading the reviews. I typically love all her work. This one I had to finally stop around chapter 6 as I simply could not get past the bad narration. I tried speeding it up to different levels but even that didn’t work. So when I realized I’d phased out during the first kiss chapter three times I finally called it quits as I simply could not get past the narration combined with less than a gaging characters. Skip this one - poorly done all around.

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So good!

Revisado: 04-18-22

I was torn at the onset of this storyline as I was not sure if I felt one of the main characters situation was believable in 2022, (spoiler alert!), questioning if a wealthy business empire family would be so homophobic. But then I remembered we living in changing times and homophobia and hate continue to thrive in pockets around the world. So, yeah - it’s believable, sadly for many of us still today.

I loved this book! Great characters. I could totally feel the love and the angst between them. This is very well written and expertly read. Highly recommend. Best I’ve listened to in quite a while.

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Eye Opening

Revisado: 01-09-21

This book has hanged my life. I started listening to it on a whim after having yet another disagreement with my difficult mother. A therapist suggest a while ago my mother may be a narcissist but I just couldn’t see it. After listening to the first chapter on the way to work I was hooked.

As I listened to the checklists of traits and criteria, I had to stop and take notes. I found I was checking off every single item. Yes, this one. No 2, definitely. Oh my god! Yeah, no 3 is true and so on. It was completely wye opening.

I finished the first two parts, called my best friend and wept for a lost childhood I did understand. I finally had answers as to why I was never good enough and could never do enough or be enough to make my mom happy.

I texted my therapist to make an appointment since everything I thought I had figured out was now an emotional disaster zone. And I’m on to making new notes on how to heal - hopefully for real this time.

It’s not perfect so don’t be distracted by the frequent ‘howevers’, pauses for a figure or diagram you can’t see or an odd religion of a title and so on. There are some things that could be made better probably by looking at the print edition. But I am so grateful for this Audible. It was accessible and easy to listen to when I needed it. Thanks to the author & Audible for making this available. I’m convinced this is the epiphany I needed to move forward and heal.

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Craden + Hill

Revisado: 10-28-20

It’s Abby Craden reading Gerri Hill. Best combo in this genre. Just get it already.

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Weird - but really good nevertheless

Revisado: 10-26-20

This story line had me rolling my eyes in the first few chapters. I love sci-fi, really I do. But I like my romance suspense more down to earth. I have to admit though that Gerri Hill pulled this one out and oddly enough this ended up being one of my favorite endings thus far. Great duo - excellent performance from Craden as always.

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