Review from The Way We Fell →
This was a slow burn romance, no drama or angst and just a monotone story with no real plot. Fairytale!Ben was a very interesting, likableMC with the patience of a saint, too good to be true. Great character. Ben love was for music and was successful writing lyrics. Kendall’s personality came across as being self..
The pace was maddeningly slow (I increased speed to 1.3 for it to sound remotely like real speech), and the delivery was stiff, over-precise, and clipped for these characters and this setting. As a native Louisianan who lived in New Orleans half my life, one of my biggest pet peeves is overdone, inauthentic southern accents…
The narration was awful. Could not finish listening. Got the book from kindle to read.
I really enjoyed the story but absolutely could not take the narrator. She has a lovely voice but her reading is so mechanical and lacks depth that you would think it was really bad AI reading it. It really ruined the book for me. I would have been better if trying to read it then..
I really disliked the narrator, so my opinion may be a bit tainted.This story follows two women, one in Chicago and the other in New Orleans, who meet and bond after they each lose their husbands. The synopsis made it sound like an interesting story, but I disliked the incredulous twists that make it less..
The mood of this one was everything: gritty, broody, and ruthless. I like that the story earned its way without relying on F bombs or the tired scene of men abusing women. The narrator’s voice was perhaps too clean and feminine for the tale, but it meshed with the writing soon enough.
This story could have had so much more than what it did. It was the same regurgitated story line throughout the book, I found myself losing interest often and not paying attention. The narrator is so breathy when she reads, it’s annoying. So glad this one was free.
Review from The Bad Boy Bargain →
I think this was a good show of change and growth in teen hood. In the end I wanted to hate how much trauma the MMC was dealing with and no one was trying to help him. But the end was great.
Review from The Way We Fell →
I like the story but the male voice sounds so much like the voice from those old 1950’s videos about bomb shelters and the routines of the stay at home 1950’s housewife that I just can’t get into it.
Review from The Seamstress of New Orleans →
the story started out strong but the pace became slow and predictable. Story was interesting until it wasn’t and the ending fell flat.