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Did no one notice this book is Anti-Semitic?

Revisado: 02-18-21

I should have looked into the author before purchasing. As a Jewish American I was shocked to read a very archaic and incorrect view of Jewish people. I actually stopped and had to check when the book was written. in 1985, Americans were enlightened enough to know better.

In researching this author, a devout Mormon, I learned that he has bigoted views of Homosexuality. Not that it is surprising, considering he nicknamed the Aliens "buggers." a very derogatory term for male penetration.

I feel rather soiled for having listened. Not to mention that I am annoyed to know that some of the proceeds from the sales of his books go right to the Mormon church in the form of tithing.

Lastly, the children in this story defied reality to the point or distraction. I have been working directly with young children for over 21 years. I don't care how brilliant a child is. without sufficient time to gain life experiences, his intelligence would be far more limited. social learning is actually a thing.

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Love you Leah!

Revisado: 05-30-20

to say all the things I want to say to Leah would take many pages. I am so proud of her and her new mission to help those who have been wronged by Scientology and her willingness to open up uncomfortable things in her life in order to counter all the actions scientology have employed against her.

I must admit, however, that what touched me most was her inclusion of her affection for her daughters nanny. I myself am a nanny and I love being one. I have been with one family for over 15 years and have basically been a second mother/close aunt to the children all their lives and love them all dearly. I know they love me too, and the parents love me, but when the children make posters of pictures ot their family or write about what they did on vacation, I am always left out, but families who live hundreds of miles away are always included. I know they don't mean to hurt my feelings but it really does, somewhere deep down. When we are left out of pictures it can make us all feel unimportant.

I have so much respect for you Leah. I hope you continue to find the strength to push forward.

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This cult currently active and abuses children

Revisado: 03-04-20

this cult needs to be outed as publically as possible. the more who know the better.

the narrator was also excellent

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okay, I give up.

Revisado: 02-27-20

If you are an adult who tends to enjoy YA fantasies this book is not for you. The premise is great but the story telling is quite poor. there is no logic or consistancy in the behaviors of any of the characters. it's so bad it pulled me out of the story.

I don't have a problem with all the cliche stereotypes all the characters fall into, but it is so poorly done. Charlie, the nerd of the trio, is so whiney about so much that he is scared of but every now and then he is randomly fearless in a way that makes no sense. Natalie has no depth at all, she is just pretty and athletic and graceful. But so pretty. Just pretty. you can tell straightaway a man wrote this book.

the author starts off building an interesting magical world, but ruins things by not having any consistancy of where things are located or how things work. there are conflicting situations with how the magical community and the real world interact. Worse yet, Queen Elizabeth is made to sound like she conquered the magical world and yet we are supposed to think she had the right way of it?

I don't think this author has a very good emotional awareness based on the actions of his characters.

I'm returning these books. so disappointing.

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unfortunately poorly written

Revisado: 05-14-18

I was rather disappointed with this book. I found the main characters unrealistic and in Caroline's case, rather boring. it is unfortunate because I didn't know much about Ravensbruck and what went on there. I was also interested to learn about what happened in Poland after world war 2. But I find myself faced with such unrealistic characters that I had a hard time trusting the author's ability to relay the history. Caroline was the one character who was a real person, but the dramatization the author added was quite honestly, stupid.

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How Can so Many People Enjoy this Book?

Revisado: 03-16-18

This book started off interesting, I enjoyed following Jane through her childhood and schooling. Then it all fell apart. I found the love story boring and Jane extremely dull. I have no idea why she falls in love with Rochester or why he loves her. But we are forced to hear them endlessly and excessively nattering to each other about how much they love one another. Listening to this book became so tedious that with only a few hours left I gave up.


In fact, I plan to ask for a refund. I want my credit back. It couldn't have been more wasted.

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Love the series but too much violence in this one

Revisado: 09-20-13

Minor Spoiler alert-



I am a huge fan of the In Death series and wait impatiently for each new book. But this is the first time ever I actually pulled off my headphones and considered not finishing. The reason was simply the dog. I can handle quite a bit of violence and torture but the teacher and her dog was much too much. I can't stand even reading about a dog being threatened. The scene is still haunting me.

Beyond just the dog though, the rest of the book spent way to much time with the killer or with Eve looking for him. Because we knew what the killer was always doing from his point of view it was redundant and a bit frustrating to read about Eve looking in the wrong direction. The parts of the story that were Eve's personal life were good but very brief.

Usually when I am done with an In Death book I end up rereading (relistening?) it almost immediately. I won't be doing that with this one.

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Harris Forgot to Make Things Happen In This Book

Revisado: 05-09-12

(I would say this contains very minor spoilers, but there is really nothing to spoil)


It must be make things so much easier for Harris to give Sookie avoidance tendencies in this book. I can imagine it must be far more difficult and time consuming to think up and write characters actually doing something of substance, pertaining to the overall storyline. Adding the humor, intrigue and sexiness these books were full of in the past must be even more tricky, because this book had none of these things.

I can't figure out if Harris is just no longer interested in the story or if she simply did not know how to write this book without giving away the end. Either way, this was really terrible. Almost nothing happened in this book, and one or two things that did happen were so poorly told, it was like reading fan fiction written by a teenager.

I see some people are happy that she is wrapping up the stories of the more minor characters, but really she hasn't. The characters all suddenly have lost any dimension. Their endings are flowery and nice, and rather boring,

(here are those minor spoilers)
Speaking of boring, I can only wonder how many actual pages were full of nothing but Sookie going to Taco Bell or Dairy Queen, cooking meals, and shopping for food. Not to mention an investigator that asked the same useless questions over and over. And over and over. And over again.

I will read the last book because I loved the series, but I have lost any kind of hope that it will be any good. That is so disappointing. It is my opinion that the second to last book in a series should leave you anxious for the last book, while giving you enough to ponder and guess as to what it all might mean, how things will work out. This book leaves you with nothing but perhaps the knowledge of how to make sweet potato pie.

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Great Narrator but really disappointing

Revisado: 08-25-10

I just finished and after having really enjoyed the first two I was really disappointed. I am afraid of even slightly spoiling this for anyone so I give warning I will not reveal what happens but it may be contrived from what I have to say from this point on.

I felt the story had so many opportunities for what may have been somewhat predictable to the average adult, but satisfying conclusions, and yet it did none of that. It came so close- to the point where i found myself annoyed wanting the story to just get to it, and then it almost does, but by sort of narrating what happens through what Katniss is told rather than by showing us, which would have been far more interesting, and what happens falls so short of answers. I don't know if I am making sense, but those who read Catching Fire will remember the last chapter where we are told what Katniss is told by her mentor about what happened after the hunger games. So much of the end of this book as well as much of the middle is like this. As though the author did not really know herself what she wanted to happen and threw something together at the last minute to just finish the book.

It reminds me of the days when I would write a book report on a book I only half read and then looked at the cliff notes for the ending and interpreted it slightly wrong in the retelling.

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Great but....

Revisado: 06-11-10

I loved the story, with one exception. Larsson frequently jumps around telling the story from a number of character's point of view. I have no problem with this. However after the first sentence in which says the name of the person we are now following, he resorts to "he" or "she" rather than the name. And there are an extensive number of characters. I frequently found myself confused at who's story we were reading now. It is irritating to have to rewind and find that one second where the name was mentioned. Granted, this was meant to be read, rather than listened to, but it is not very good writing technique. I got the impression that Larsson was so deeply engrossed in his own story that he wrote he or she to save time, intending to go back and replace them with names but never did.

Otherwise the story was great, a little slow at the beginning but still engrossing to the point I did not want to stop listening.

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