Good concept, rotten book

I was really drawn in by the synopsis of this book, and it was recommended for me based on other things I’ve read. The first two chapters were pretty interesting, but after that, it went so far downhill. Just boring! I’m going to look up spoilers about the parts that interested me because I can’t listen to the rest.

Also, I know all the casual racism is used to build villainous characters, but OOF. Not super fun to read or hear.

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Great Book

  Another far-fetched story that I enjoyed.  Although Wyler continues to write stories that are far fetched if not completely unrealistic, I still enjoyed this book. And who knows, maybe this is really plausible.

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Good story

Enjoyed this one I'm getting to like this author. A little bit spoiled by the narrator when he tried to talk in a quiet tone he was very hard to hear. I listen to my audio books in the car and had to turn off the air conditioning and really strain to hear him even with the volume turned all the way up.

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Couldn’t hear part of the narration

The story was great but parts of the narration were so soft that I couldn’t hear it at all in my car without blasting the stereo. In the end I gave up and went in to another book.

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Just Skip It

The story isn’t terrible, it’s the narration that’s awful. The narrator does all of the women voices in a soft meek whisper. The guys voices are performed in a loud booming confident voice. This book is irky on so many levels.

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very descriptive

I was disappointed in the ending. it justed ended. If I had known I would not have wasted my time

Great story but the narrator varies

I enjoyed the story but the narrator wildly varies the volume of his voice - which drives me nuts if I'm trying to relax OR listening via ear buds.

otherwise believable characters and great prose.

Badly recorded

The dialog is so soft that the narration has to be turned way up. If you don't want to be blasted on the narration, you miss what the characters are saying, sometimes missing important information. This is probably not the narrator's fault. It could have been tended to by the recording technician.

Volume drops too low to hear

The story is good, but unfortunately, the volume drops so low and rises so high you can't hear the low parts without killing your ears on the high parts.

lousy book

started out good. Too long and as it went on became worse and ending sucks.