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Engaging story

Revisado: 10-27-24

Loved the story--a lot of interesting historical and artistic detail. Could've used another narrator--she sounded like a sorority girl reading it. Very breathy and superficial.

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Wonderful book!

Revisado: 05-27-24

I hadn't realized that the book was written by Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. As with the previous book, the characters are absolutely wonderful, the plot is engaging and interesting and I only wish I could read it again for the first time. Narration was beautifully done. Highly recommend.

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I couldn't keep going

Revisado: 08-21-23

This was one of the most depressing books I've ever started. I made it about 2 hours through--maybe less, maybe it just felt like hours--but couldn't go on. I understand books about WWII are going to be sad, but this was dark, dark, dark. And I was left without hope. Couldn't do it. Maybe you'd like it, though.

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Pretty good story, pretty flat narration

Revisado: 07-20-23

I like Maura Tierney as an actress (though I think I only saw her on ER) but the narration of this book was flat. It sounded like the characters didn't care about anything which...well, some of them didn't. The story is a testament to how your parents can screw you up, but also shows the potential for things getting better. It was fairly good except for the performance.

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Fantastic book with wonderful narrators

Revisado: 04-26-23

Part hero's journey, part magic and absolutely full of love and compassion. Wonderful book. Must've been beautifully written--the translation sings. The narration is perhaps the best I've ever heard in an audio book. It's one of those books that I wish I could discover afresh again.

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And a History of "Lost" Women

Revisado: 07-18-22

What a wonderful book, showing how women have been disregarded through history, and how little women's history has mattered to men. The author, with this moving story, reminds us that just because we haven't been quoted in dictionaries and histories as much, it doesn't mean we haven't had important and deep lives. It brought out the feminist in me, but also reminded me that there are men who walk the path with us rather than pushing us aside. The narration was perfect, other than the fact that I'd like to tweak her Esperanto pronunciation, but then I've never spoken to a British person in Esperanto before and am not sure about the nuances of their pronunciation. But the book and the narrator are a perfect match. Highly recommend the book and the recording.

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Great book, lackluster narrator

Revisado: 06-01-22

Wonderful book. The characters are terrific and well-written. The story is absorbing. It re-ignites my feminism and so many things described made me think, "Yes, that happened to me, too." It may seem irrelevant to younger women, but it rang completely true for me. The narrator needs some help pronouncing names and words--Jack Lanne and abiogenesis, specifically. I found her narration more flat that I'd have liked, but it didn't spoil it for me. Great listen.

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Convoluted and self-absorbed

Revisado: 02-15-22

I love time-travel books. This one was convoluted and the characters were so wrapped up in themselves that I literally stopped listening ten minutes before the end because I realized I didn't care. Not sure why some of the characters spoke with nasal congestion--seemed to be a "feature". Boring, unending. I made it end.

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Combine every Lifetime movie you've ever seen

Revisado: 01-01-22

This book was so sweet and predictable I couldn't wait for it to end. The only thing I really liked were the references to other (much better) books. You knew, as you met each character, what their fate would be at the end.

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Love the book, can't stand the narrator

Revisado: 11-03-21

This is a well-written and interesting story. The characters are good. The narration was really bad. The narrator made the main character sound like a total air-head. She wasn't. She got herself out of a very bad place and deserved to be portrayed as a strong human being, not a breathy idiot. I listened to an hour, couldn't stand it but wanted to know how it turned out so I read it on my Kindle, instead. Much better choice.

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