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Excellent narrative acting!

Revisado: 03-28-25

Emilia Fox could read the phone book and sound compelling. But Gillian McAllister's book is fine material, peppered with beautifully crafted phrases, albeit freighted with a ridiculous plot.

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Disappointing end

Revisado: 02-27-25

Intriguing plot and taut writing. For once, a woman is imprisoning and torturing a man instead of the opposite. Her deluded attempts to force him to love her will resonate in a comical way with the lovelorn, but the details are way too gruesome for my taste. The disappointing end leaves a heroic character in jeopardy and the villains uncaught and unpunished.

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Like YA lit but even dumber

Revisado: 01-22-25

Insipid plot, superficial writing, peopled with self-absorbed and annoyingly naive characters and pushing a progressive social agenda at the same time. I kept checking the title details to make sure I hadn't missed a Young Adult tag because the writing is so juvenile.

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Excellent narration

Revisado: 11-18-24

The wonderful narrative actress who read the book elevated the material significantly. The book itself is a moderately interesting story, with some good personal details that seemed like actual memory, but limp and unsatisfying in terms of suspense.

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Endless and unsuspenseful

Revisado: 11-15-24

Relentless yammering on about her relationship with her friend. Is her friend dead? Is she alive? That question can only sustain the reader for so long...and then you start skipping ahead ten chapters at a time and the protagonist is STILL just trying to figure out whether friend is dead or alive.

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Almost satire

Revisado: 05-09-24

The narrator's tone was perfect. Whether the author intended this as satire or not, it's darkly funny.

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Stands the test of time

Revisado: 04-13-24

Excellent writing and evocative details triumph over dated elements (e.g. no cell phones, no personal computers, male chivalry toward ls women).

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The worst writing ever.

Revisado: 03-08-24

was this book actually published? The writing is so poor that it is completely impossible to listen to the audiobook. Even an elementary school grammarian would become frustrated with the absurd sentence, constructions, and other literary faux pas.

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Time travelling with witty narrator

Revisado: 02-19-24

The writer's mind-expanding time travel concept, humor, and excellent eye for detail kept me engaged until the continual descriptions of torture and sexual abuse had me as nauseated as the poor hapless studmuffin Jamie.

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Clever writing and unusual POV

Revisado: 02-12-24

It isn't offer that a novel's narrator is, unusually, a villain -- one whose acerbic wit and maudlin romantic fantasies, love for her cat, and occasional victimization at the hands of people more twisted than she is, make her just sympathetic enough.
Wonderful, crisp narrative and a fabulous actor performing the novel.
The ending is quite satisfying.

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