Jesica Backal

silly, silly, silly!!!

Revisado: 04-28-25

the supernatural twist is so laughable! otherwise, a boring, unoriginal psych thriller. absolutely not recommend!

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Cannot keep listening to narration!!

Revisado: 04-16-23

once again i am shocked by what the producers of some audio books put out as final product. did anyone actually LISTEN to this once it was completed?? the narration is so unbearable, I'm stopping the audio version and ordering the paperback because i love the story. the narration sounds like if you took the staccato, overly dramatic diction of captain Kirk and mixed in a robotic monotone with a weird, low-register, nasal fry. on top of that, the narrator's accent is bizarre and anoying ("air" is "are"). every character sounds clinically depressed and over everything. Absolutely awful.

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I loved this so much!

Revisado: 03-28-23

I'm a big fan of Bram Stoker's dracula and this origin story was amazing. Yes, at times it seems to move slow, but it is so worth it to hang on. the historical notes at the end are a fitting and extraordinary finale. The narration and voice acting were confusing at times, but overall very good.

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if you can stick through it, it's worth it!

Revisado: 02-01-23

Koontz and King are my favorite authors so i was excited about this read. Barker is close, but definitely no cigar.
The good:
interesting spin on the experiment-gone-wrong premise, well-developed characters, some genuinely good storytelling, excellent narration for most male characters
The not so good:
Waaaaay too long, somewhat repetitive, will push your suspension of disbelief almost to breaking. The female voices by the narrator are awful! Especially Stella who is supposed to be a young, beautiful, enigmatic creature and instead sounds like a prim, 70 year old librarian. I got past it, but...cringe! I will never understand why audio book producers refuse to use gender appropriate narrators. does it really cost that much more to have one male and one female narrator? Do these producers ever actually listen to the finished product???? Rant over.😁

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waaaaay too long and repetative

Revisado: 09-14-22

cut the middle 20 chapters and it would be a solid novel. Narrator is hit and miss, too plaintive and whiny. is vocal fry the only trick female narrators have for male voices? ugh!

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absolutely fabulous story. beautifully written.

Revisado: 05-04-22

no major plot holes. evocative. intriguing. would love to see this in movie form. the narration is hit and miss. it was ok for the most part, but many of the male characters just sounded like they had a bad cold. i know that there are tons of British accents depending on the region, but I found this one annoying, especially because Joanna's accent in the first book was so different. but overall, a great listening experience.

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excellent story, gripping, great narrator!

Revisado: 04-07-22

it's not super original but it's very well written ( even though it's obvious by certain terms that it was written by an English author even though it's supposed to be set in ambiguous america ). narrator is amazing in both genders. worth the credit!

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one of coben's best and awesome narrator! A must!

Revisado: 03-21-22

Great story, well-developed characters and lots of twists. The narration was excellent. The first audio book i have listened to where not even the opposite gender voices bothered me.

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save yourselves!

Revisado: 02-12-22

the story is preposterous, the characters flimsy and unlikeable, the dialogue is hokey and cliched and the main character Katy, is narrated in a super-whiny, overly-dramatic way that grates on your nerves after 5 minutes. I knew 3 chapters in who the perpetrators were. boring, formulaic and dumb. DO. NOT. LISTENT. You're welcome.

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TOO MUCH!

Revisado: 01-06-22

I had such high hopes for this book having loved Sharp Objects so much. But it's an understatement to say those hopes were dashed, stepped on and obliterated. This story is the literary equivalent of watching hours and hours of starving children in a third world country. It is relentlessly depressing from begining to end. There is no wit or humor to relieve the often senseless graphic brutality of this book, including the drawn out description of the horrific, senseless
slaughter of an animal. Every single character, even the minor ones, is pathetic, mentally unbalanced and reprehensible. There is no one to cheer for, no one to sympathise with and no one to care about. And then there are the numerous, unintentionally laughable coincidences that drive the story. I cannot believe a writer of Gillian Flynn's calibre would resort to such amateurish and insulting tricks with not even an ounce of irony to soften make them more palatable. At the end, all I get from this book is that deep inside she must hate people, animals and pretty much everything in the world. Girl, get some help!

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