Engaging audio

Narrator(s): the narrators did an excellent job voicing their characters, and I love how the podcast episodes featured more voice actors.

Story: For me, it was easy to predict parts of the mystery. However, the story was nonetheless engaging. I do wish there was a bit more description and development in some areas (especially the more rushed scenes and with some side characters), but it’s a minor issue.

All in all, I’m glad I took a chance and spent my credit on this audiobook.

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underwhelming

I enjoyed the layout of the book and the creative audio narrative, but the story was lacking. I was hoping for more of a climax or at least white knuckles.

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Surprise

Very clever plot. Different than anything I have read before. It was captivating from beginning to end and the characters came alive.

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WOW

This book was absolutely incredible. The authors style is so poetic, which is accentuated by the narrators. A work that seems like it was meant to be consumed as an audiobook.

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How did this win awards???

The writing really isn’t good. The language is weird, unnatural and convoluted. The plot drowns in floral over the top descriptions. What is the author’s obsession with hair? I love it when characters are brought to life with little quirky descriptions of actions, but this was too much. The whole novel was ‘all talk, little action’. What 17 years old goes into long poetic rants about every little boring detail? None of the characters were realistic and the whole novel felt like a bad drug trip. The main narrator managed to keep an appropriately dull and depressing tone throughout the whole thing, and I kept feeling as is she was about to burst out in tears. In all fairness, I can’t blame her. By the end of this novel I too had lost the will to live

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mediocre

Not great not horrible...I listened to the whole thing and it was entertaining but lacking substance.

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I kept wanting to get the end!

I wanted to get to the end not because I wanted to book the end but because I had a pretty good idea about what was going on. I wasn't right on the nose but I was close. The book kept you wanting to keep reading. Was nicely done. The narrator's we're not bad but the recording at some points we're annoying. I will definitely speak out more of this author's books.

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VERY Far Fetched and Somewhat Rambling

The story is relatively well written in terms of use of language. The plot is very far-fetched in that the mother of the protagonist fails to speak up with a family secret to save her daughter from prison when they have a good relationship... and there is almost no reason remaining to keep the secret. The protagonist also has a variety of psychological or psychiatric issues that are incredibly poorly explained, making them seem like a crutch for a poor plot. On the other hand, the character development is reasonably interesting and the characters are multidimensional. I ended up listening to the last 1/3 of the book at 195% of normal speed, but it was marginally worthwhile.

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Overall good book, but a decent amount of politics.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book, but there was a fair amount of politics. Even as a WOC (and not a republican by any means) the liberal, racism, affirmative action talk was too much for me. I read to escape from reality, so I found myself rolling my eyes at some parts. But otherwise really good.

Interesting Story Well Done

I liked the story, and it was well presented with multiple voices and some surprising twists. It was sometimes a bit hard to figure out who was talking. This was complicated by the frequent switching back and forth from "then" and "now".