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It’s just okay

Reviewed: 04-19-24

The narrator kept saying things under his breath. Unfortunately, when doing this as a whisper, the listener cannot hear what is being said without turning the volume up. You can’t listen to the full story with the volume on high. It is frustrating to have to stop and go back to hear what was said.

The MC is supposed to have played a lot of video games, yet simple things, like hobgoblins, are unfamiliar to him. A lot of scenarios like this happen throughout the story and it just doesn’t make sense considering the MC’s history.

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Such stupid voices!!

Reviewed: 10-21-23

If you want to go through the pain of listening to a story with a cast of voices such as a country bumpkin, Mr. Mackey from South Park, Jack Nicholson at his most annoying, a leprechaun, Popeye, a whiny preacher from the Deep South, all of the voices of Robin Williams, Seth Macfarlane and Adam Sandler, Bill Murray’s mentally unstable greenskeeper from Caddyshack, some people from old Russia, Britain and Scotland then this is the Audible book for you!! All it managed to do was give me a headache. I couldn’t focus on the story because of the completely random voices the narrator chose. Any new narrator that takes over a story should be forced to first listen to the previous books. This was just bad.

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So repetitive

Reviewed: 07-03-22

I don't know how many more "Ugh" comments I can tolerate or how every character now treats the inside of their cheek like bubblegum. This nonsense wasn't happening in the first book, but, it went out of control in this one. There are also a lot of mispronounced words.

Why are there not people who check on this type of thing??

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Just.... really bad

Reviewed: 09-06-21

Could not even tolerate a single chapter. Narration was annoying, characters were awful, story was stupid.

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A very annoying listen

Reviewed: 06-30-21

I am just into chapter 4 and already at a point where I want my credit back. For some reason, the author decided to salt and pepper this book with an overabundance of, ""I said." "He said." "She said."" About 1/4 of the story are those exact words. It is incredibly frustrating to hear repeatedly.

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Great Audible story!

Reviewed: 05-22-21

This was an amazing listen. A couple things confused me in the story, but, still made sense overall. I found myself smiling as I listened...especially at the end. I loved it.

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Not worth the single credit

Reviewed: 05-18-21

The narrator over-enunciated and the delivery felt deliberately slow. I had to speed it up just to try and make listening tolerable. Unfortunately, I couldn't get into the story because she was very nasally, thus, every character sounded as if they had a stuffy nose.

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Olivia "Mockingbird" Ash

Reviewed: 04-06-21

I'm on book 3 of this series and I had hoped that Olivia would've tightened up on her writing skills. At the very least, she should get a proofreader. The annoyingly constantly recurring issue in all three of these books, so far, is that when Olivia decides to use a term or phrase, she has it repeated within the next three sentences. She also has terms that she repeats multitudes of times. She seems to forget from moment to moment what abilities she has given to her characters. Sometimes they can crush granite without even trying. Other times, they can barely squeeze a lemon. Sometimes a bullet will bounce off their skin without even a tickle. Other times they get hit with a wind-blown twig and collapse to their knees. Come on, Olivia, be consistent! How many more books do I have to go through and listen to Rory complain about how strong the pull is to Jayce and how it gets stronger every time...and it is too hard to resist... YET EVERY SINGLE TIME, it's somehow resisted... but she's losing her will to fight it. Doesn't seem like it to me.

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Not an easy listen

Reviewed: 01-03-21

I am having a really difficult time with this novel. The story and narration combined are making nearly every character seem like a-holes. This was not the impression I got from the other books. So far, I haven't even finished the first chapter and I am really hating it. Edward's personality, in this story, isn't a self-loathing, confused and infatuated vampire. He is a self-absorbed, arrogant jerk who seems to have nothing nice to say about anyone. This was not what I was expecting at all. I expected to understand the story from his perspective and I don't feel like that's what this book is giving me. It doesn't even feel like it was written by the same author. Right now, it is a complete disappointment. I am going to give it some time and will update my review once I decide my final opinion.

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Something missing

Reviewed: 12-14-20

I feel like there was an entire book that I missed between Heartfire and The Crystal City. There were several things references that I have zero recollection about which made a lot of things seem... just wrong.

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