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New accent ruins it

Revisado: 11-22-22

Tom now has an extremely strong Boston accent, and it's unbearable. He went from being a classy chauffeur to a character straight out of Good Will Hunting, and it's awful. It's not that the narrator does a bad Boston accent, it's that it's so over-the-top & makes absolutely no sense for it to come out of nowhere. There's also no way her grandmother would've hired someone who spoke like that to begin with. I couldn't make it past the 1st chapter, and I won't be listening to any more of the books, which saddens me bc they'd been so much fun!

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Should’ve stopped at 9

Revisado: 10-13-21

I just binge-listened to the entire series over the course of a handful of days and this book is awful and tarnishes the entire series simply bc it’s the last book and definitely the most memorable. It’s a Heinz 57 of delicate, social trigger-topics addressed as insensitively as possible. The extreme racial stereotyping is the worst and is absolutely inexcusable. And, just when you think it can’t possibly get more offensive, it does.

I know you’ll still listen to the book after reading this bc it’s impossible to believe that this could be true after having listened to 9 fun books, and I can’t fault you for that - if I were you, I probably wouldn’t believe me, either, since it’s such a drastic departure from the tone & content of the previous books in the series. Just remember that I told you so!

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Description was promising, but the book was disappointing

Revisado: 12-04-20

I called it quits after an hour and a half. I’m sure that, eventually, the main character, Ben, would start to mature and grow as a person, but there’s only so much unjustified, woe-is-me whining I can handle before I get fed up. My tolerance of the victim mentality is pretty low, as well. He’s supposed to be 16 and starting his junior year, but he’s incredibly immature - the things he thinks and says are on par with a naïve six-year-old. He’s EXTREMELY callous when discussing his older brother, who’s on the autism spectrum, and thinks it’s appropriate to hint to a classmate that, if she would lose weight and dress differently, she would be more attractive. My hope was that his behavior would change with the introduction of the love interest mentioned in the description, Emily, but she has yet to make an appearance. It’s really frustrating when authors beat the proverbial dead horse when painting a picture of someone’s character. I just wanted to yell “I get it! Point made! Move on!”

The narration, however, was much better than the material. His voice is perfect for the age group & I’d definitely listen to him again.

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Great story, but narration killed it for me

Revisado: 11-15-20

I love Teddy Hamilton, but the 7 (out of 26) chapters he narrates amount to a grand total of 1:05 (out of 9:20). Violet Wilson is new to me and, though her female voices are absolutely FANTASTIC, her male voice sounded like a middle-aged woman with a smoker’s rasp trying to be seductive. The story itself is hysterical (typical R.S. Grey), and her narration of the 3 female leads only makes it more so, but, 3 hours in I couldn’t handle her male voice knowing I still had 6 more hours to go & I ended up returning the book.

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Cute story, but it’s missing a chapter

Revisado: 08-12-20

Great narration and fun, lighthearted story, but a key chapter is missing. Instead of hearing River’s chapter detailing the arrangement they made to “fake date,” you hear a repeat of chapter 10. If it weren’t for the book description, you’d have no idea what had happened. Still worth a credit, though.

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Outstanding narrator

Revisado: 06-11-20

It’s a really fun story that’s cute, but not mushy, and it moves along well for the entirety. There’s no over-the-top angst or drama, or annoying characters - it’s just an entertaining, lighthearted romantic comedy. PLUS, the narrator is amazing, especially her Irish accent.

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Couldn’t finish

Revisado: 04-27-20

I was really looking forward to this book, but the narrator who voices the main character, August, sounds just like Marge Simpson &, after a few chapters, I couldn’t handle it anymore.

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2.5 stars: Over-the-top teenage angst

Revisado: 03-19-20

After 4 hours of listening to Ethan rave about Collette and repeatedly tell her she’s beautiful, followed by Collette rejecting his compliments and having an internal dialogue where she constantly talks about her size and how she’s too big to be a ballerina, I called it quits. I enjoy lighthearted, angsty, high school romances every now and then, but Collette was insufferable. I gave the story 2 stars simply because there are Harry Potter references.

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VERY disappointing

Revisado: 03-15-20

The book’s length is 2:45, and about 2:30 of it is listening to an amazingly resilient 13 year old girl with Tourette Syndrome cope with being mocked & harassed every single school day by her peers, and then spending her evenings with an egocentric, callous mom whose primary concern is finding a husband and who’s annoyed by her daughter’s tics. The one friend she supposedly has shuns her when in public, so calling him a friend is a bit of a stretch.

As a mental health professional, I was extremely disappointed with the storyline and, for anyone who has Tourette’s, it’d probably be borderline traumatic since the takeaway is that, if you’re diagnosed with TS, you’ll be treated like crap.

Don’t be fooled by the flowery, lighthearted cover, or think that the focus will be whether or not a friendship survives one person moving away - everything about the cover is misleading.

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Great Story

Revisado: 03-14-20

This was a unique, well-written story with an array of interesting characters.You may feel as though you have a pretty good idea of “who-dun-it,” but then there’s an unexpected twist near the end.

The problem is the narration. His voice is pleasant to listen to, and he does a great job with giving each character a distinct voice, but, when speaking as the main character, Joe, the cadence is off and he’s so monotone the majority of the time that I had to start skipping forward midway through. Yes, Joe is pretty subdued, but he’s not so emotionally numb that his affect and speech would be so flat.

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