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Stacie Yocum

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Ehhhh.

Total
3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 10-14-23

I have mixed feelings about this one.
Narration was decent but not great (and one particular pronunciation/accent quirk where many words starting with th being said like they start with d really wore on me). I'm also assuming that the person reading is an older woman while the characters were mostly in their 30s so it gave a weird "Grandma is telling me a story about her past" vibe.
Story was... interesting. it definitely kept me guessing and had some twists but it almost felt like it was trying too hard. There were a lot of things left unexplained. Seemed prime to show major character development because it discussed struggles... but nobody really progressed. There's a weird romance/not a romance/love triangle but not actually. There were quite a few things that made me wonder why they were included at all or never explained or just weren't realistic, which is jarring in this kind of book. For example, there are multiple mentions of a character's dead wife and tension around it but we get zero actual back story or explanation or anything. Why mention it repeatedly when it has nothing to do with the story?
The religion was a huge turn off and slap in the face for me. I listened to this book because my husband listened to it so I never checked reviews. I saw no indication in the summary or categories saying it's a Christian book and it absolutely is. I'm agnostic, raised Catholic with nuns in my family, so casual religious references don't bother me, but this was too much to not be mentioned as a big part of the book. It was shoved in pretty aggressively and in places that really killed the action that was happening otherwise and included a lot of gross "You'll believe in God one day, don't worry" narrative. I don't need a sermon about God in the middle of the final showdown scene when it has absolutely nothing to do with the storyline. There's also a pivotal plot point that makes no sense and is simply explained away by "It was God."
All in all, I finished it. I will not be reading the next one in the series. I would not recommend it to a friend.

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Excellent

Total
5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 12-20-20

Excellent writing and story. Could not ask for a better reader. Very happy with this audiobook. It's like an adventure into fantasy.

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No.

Total
1 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
1 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 11-09-20

I returned this book by the 4th chapter. The narration is horrendous. I read the negative reviews and ignored them because I got through Glass Sword even though it wasn't my favorite. Amanda was still not my favorite and made chapters 1-3 painful, but the narrator for Kamryn? No. She's a fiesty 15 year old and this makes her sound like a granny in her rocker telling stories of the past. I can't do it. I'll be buying the book to read as intended.

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Enjoyed the story, not the reader!

Total
3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
2 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 10-26-20

I enjoyed the story as a casual "escape" read and went in expecting it to be kind of an action story, given the end of the previous book, which it was. I definitely noticed a lot of re-explaining of the story but found it appropriate for anyone who isn't binging the stories consecutively and was not bothered. The reader, however, almost ruined it for me. Not a fan. A lot of inaccurate representation that pulled me out of the story. For example, there were moments she would practically yell a quote that was followed by "she whispered" or "he mumbled," accents shifted, or the emotional representations didn't make sense for the story. Would have preferred to read the book myself to fully enjoy it, but it was tolerable.

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