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Good stories. Questionable title image for series cover.

Revisado: 09-29-24

The cover images for each of the individual books appropriately included male & female Adults. The cover image

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Virtual narrator totally lacks inflections that MAKE the story!

Revisado: 12-20-23

The virtual voice made the story not worth listening to. No inflections in the voice. The “Reading” is monotone, without understanding of the sentences.
Narrator: “He had spent plenty of time in Junior. High against the wall at dances.”
Call me crazy, but I think the author may have meant “He had spent plenty of time in Junior High, against the wall at dances”.
I stopped 3/4 through chapter 1, but the story starts well. I may have enjoyed it, if only the “reader” were able to show any understanding of the story.

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A Good story becomes a Great one when words important to the story are pronounced correctly!

Revisado: 11-23-23

Great story. Well performed, though the medical professional in me cringed each time “Neurologist” was pronounced “Neerologist”.
A couple other medical terms were mispronounced, but the repetition of “neerology/neerologist” got on my “neerves”!

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Nearly stopped listening, but happy to have finished this book!

Revisado: 08-06-23

By 8 chapters in, I was triggered by the wife’s(Barb) negative score-keeping about her husband, and my life’s similarities. I was ready to quit the book. Multiple negative reviews expressed similar feelings, though some reviews noted a familial resolution by the end of the book. I read the final chapter, and decided to return to chapter eight & finish the book. Very pleased that I did!

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Thorns left by family secrets.

Revisado: 03-19-23

As a child born into a family with a few secrets, I eventually learned that brutal honesty can be a breath of fresh air.
This story, through its twists & turns illustrates this well, and was an intriguing listen!

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A Strange View of Amish Life AND Negative Stereotyping of “A Close Plus-Sized Friend”

Revisado: 12-22-22

The story itself was an acceptable rapidly-paced holiday love story. There was far more dependence on electrical appliances and commercial convenience foods than I’ve ever seen in Amish stories. I wondered if the author received payments for her mentions of the many brands.
The “valued neighbor and friend” was portrayed as shamefully lazy, persistently eating, a good cook, but bad-smelling, deodorant rejecting, and ignoring of her child’s dirty diapers; while the main character was, of course, very small (apparently a most important of virtues), well-mannered, very attentive to children and home.
Both commercialism and fat-bashing were too prevalent to make this story recommendable .

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Disappointingly Rapid Ending

Revisado: 12-15-22

This initially well developed story ended as too many do, with the first 5 hrs 8 min laying out complex issues related to interesting characters, and the last 5 min magically solving everything with a declaration of love.
I’d have happily listened another hour to have the story end as well as it began!

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