Karen Peterson
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My Dark Vanessa
- A Novel
- By: Kate Elizabeth Russell
- Narrated by: Grace Gummer
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,901
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,248
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,240
2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, 15-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful 42-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: Remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I apologize
- By Judy George on 03-13-20
- My Dark Vanessa
- A Novel
- By: Kate Elizabeth Russell
- Narrated by: Grace Gummer
sad story that was too much of the same chapter
Reviewed: 04-02-20
Over and over the same message and passages. I grew weary looking for the next part of the plot. I have never abandoned a book in my 40 years of book loving but this was a never ending retake of the same episodes over and over - that are hard enough to read the first time ...
Sorry but I had to even ask to Exchange and did not finish it -
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And After the Fire
- A Novel
- By: Lauren Belfer
- Narrated by: Xe Sands, Simon Vance
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 189
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 166
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Story4 out of 5 stars 164
In the ruins of Germany in 1945, at the end of World War II, American soldier Henry Sachs takes a souvenir, an old music manuscript, from a seemingly deserted mansion and mistakenly kills the girl who tries to stop him. In America in 2010, Henry's niece, Susanna Kessler, struggles to rebuild her life after she experiences a devastating act of violence on the streets of New York City. When Henry dies soon after, she uncovers the long-hidden music manuscript.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very disappointing
- By Margalarg on 06-28-19
- And After the Fire
- A Novel
- By: Lauren Belfer
- Narrated by: Xe Sands, Simon Vance
Lovely story with much history
Reviewed: 03-28-17
Loved the passage from past to current time and learning more about the world through this history and full story
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