View: andyw - page 47

Last in the series

Review from Behind the Gates 4 →

N.B. I received a free copy of this book via freeaudiobookcodes.com. It was the final entry in the series, but I’ve not read any of the others. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great either. That just may be a combination of me not being a huge fan of the genre combined with this being..

Read more

My ADD couldn’t handle this one

Review from The Spy →

I absolutely love this series, but for some reason I had to rewind a lot more in this one. Yes, still five stars because the story is amazing, but I have a feeling I’m going to end this one without really understanding every little detail because the jumping back-and-forth was a lot for me. And..

Read more

Terrible narration, patchy research marrs this spy novel

Review from Moscow X →

The narrator horribly mangled the Afrikaans accent and sometimes had the Russian female character speaking in the same badly rendered Afrikaans accent before switching back to a mangled Russian accent. The narrator used a rather neutral expressionless tone, failing to convey the characters or their emotions. The author was good on Russia but terrible on..

Read more

Mostly quite boring

Review from Moscow X →

I almost gave up after the first 3-4 hours. It is incredibly slow. Then the story picks up and becomes more interesting. But the ending seems quite rushed and sort of fizzles out. Ok performance by the narrator, albeit his speech is quite slurry and sometimes hard to hear if you are not in optimum..

Read more

Different in a good way

Review from We’re Made of Moments →

This was a great book. Where the story begins was different, but I didn’t hate it. I was thankful for the snippets of back story that made it easier to get the depth of feeling for each other. The HEA was not what I was expecting either, but it went along with the whole “different”..

Read more