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Better than the last book - Not amazing

Reviewed: 03-30-25

Get this if you want to understand why Haymitch became an alcoholic. You’ll see some old faces in younger years. The majority of the book is outside the arena and not interesting. Could have cut the first half off. Wish Woody Harrelson would have narrated even though he has an older voice. The narrator was okay but didn’t have personality or swagger like Haymitch as we know him. My mind kept wandering and I just wanted to get to the arena already! If you have a spare credit go for it. You’ll get the very sad backstory and may find it interesting. Wish the writer did a better of job of giving characters like Haymitch, Katniss and others any personality whatsoever. The only personality they got was given by the actors in the movie.

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Less interesting than the first book

Reviewed: 12-16-23

The narrator would be okay but makes poor choices for the characters. The stilted speech and strange voices she does for the autistic characters is quite annoying, unnatural and bordering on mildly offensive. I say this a sister to an autistic brother. No need to make their voices so bizarre. The plot left me uncurious about who the murderer would be, and the resolution was boring, it’s my fault for buying the sequel to a book I didn’t like much to begin with. Overall impression is bland and forgettable for any true mystery lover.

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RUN… from this book!

Reviewed: 01-30-23

SAVE YOURSELF! NOT A HAUNTED HOUSE STORY. I REALLY DON’T THINK IM SPOILING ANYTHING TO TELL YOU THIS IS ABOUT PUPPETS…KILLER PUPPETS. IF THATS YOUR THING, ITS STILL MEDIOCRE AND DULL. IF ITS NOT YOUR THING, DEFINITELY PASS ON THIS,

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WHAT A SHALLOW, MEAN, SELF-PITYING, PAMPERED JERK!

Reviewed: 11-13-22

Nothing but sexual conquests, unkind observations, sexist actions and the delusion that taking an “unaccompanied flight” as a child with parents waiting for him at each end is justification for a life spent referring to himself as ABANDONED and developing a drug addiction to cope with his “pain”! He refers to himself as an unaccompanied minor for the rest of his life, and a million times in this book. Moving 3 times is also not relentless moving!

Anyone who has experienced even minor trauma in their lives will find this book downright offensive. Oh, and your parents getting divorced and your dad calling you every Sunday and having you visit him is NOT abandonment. This one-note hack refers to himself as an immense comedic talent and movie star who outright says that all he’s ever wanted in life is to be famous. He goes into graphic detail about the ‘hundreds’ of women he’s used. And he dares to ask why kind, successful and humble Keanu Reeves is allowed to live. I can’t believe his agent let him release this book. He literally thinks he’s had a tragic history when he’s hit nothing but luck and with a great, supportive family. He’s just a selfish weakling.

If you like hearing people refer to themselves as a “beloved”, while blaming their addiction on whoever is standing nearby, this will be right up your alley. This is not a well person. In any respect.

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No suspense and cringey “twist”

Reviewed: 11-05-22

The creepy next door neighbor plot always has possibilities… though the author somehow misses every opportunity to create suspense or mystery at every turn. That suspicion about the neighbor? Confirmed in the first few sentences of that character at the very beginning of the book. No detective work needed here. No point to the middle, and the “twist” ending has been done to death in tv, film and books. Zero on the originality scale and the ending is just lazy and embarrassing. Narrator was fine, will be returning this.

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Incredibly Predictable

Reviewed: 11-04-22

I’m unsure how this story passed an editor’s review. Your first guess of the bad guy? You’re right. That’s it. It was so obvious I though I was being led astray, but nope! Any mystery aficionado will be really frustrated by the wasted opportunities for suspense and twists in this book. If you read the back cover you know the whole book. Decent narrator, though she switches from male to female voice mid-sentence as if she keeps forgetting she is impersonating a man. This is a miss. Use your credit elsewhere.

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Loud Lady at the end ruins it!

Reviewed: 08-17-20

How hard is it to leave copyright info at the start of an audio book? This lady woke me right back up with her abrupt loud voice. Do Better!

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17 people found this helpful

Full of spoilers! Beware!

Reviewed: 11-02-19

If you haven’t seen every single old and new movie mentioned in this audiobook you won’t need to by the end. He goes over all the top moments and surprises! He also gets certain details wrong which is strange given the amount of detail in this book. He goes on a long discussion about someone’s daughter in a movie when it was actual their sister. This is very subjective and personalized and self- indulgent. Not what you think it will be. I’m a huge movie fan and did not enjoy this at all.

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They're not kidding- it's REALLY bad...

Reviewed: 12-31-16

I heard that the narration was awful but I figured it would at least be tolerable - of boy. You can't believe how bad it is. It's like listening... to a child... learning to read... and pausing in... the most awkward places in... each sentence... endlessly. You'd think she had never read her own book before - this was truly painful and I never even finished. Aside from the ghost writer using words Theresa couldn't even pronounce, the style or reading seemed as though she were being given a few words at a time on cue cards and had to pause mid sentence all the time to wait for the rest. Truly epic in its awfulness. You've been warned.

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