lizy Gaines

a warning to never let Hitler happen again

Reviewed: 12-20-20

excellent from start to finish the story inspires and amazes. it educates on what people will do if led by a horrible leader, and how far people good people can fall into evil. But hope springs from good people.
this is the story of a young Italian Catholic who heroically risked his life to fight the evils of Adolf Hitler to save the Jews and his own people as well.
The performance is spectacular.
I had this in my library for so long this is one I will listen to again and I never say that!

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an okay way to spend an afternoon

Reviewed: 08-28-20

this was the worst ending I think I've ever read. sorry if that is a spoiler alert but it could have stopped earlier and been more interesting or it needed to go on longer and do something interesting but the way it ended I felt like I had lost the last several chapters of the book. and I figured out the plot way too early.

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consistently interesting

Reviewed: 08-02-20

some of the timelines seemed a little mixed up and I find some of Jodi picoult's writing a bit trite, but this is an enjoyable book. the storyline is no longer topical because there have been so many changes in the world + in lgbtq rights specifically. I didn't think that the music was much of an addition at all. I don't think Jodi picoult is a librettist although she's a fun read.

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loose ends bad narration unbelievable characters

Reviewed: 07-31-20

so there were just too many loose ends I mean the Cop family from Long Island just sort of vanished. and the bad guy was sort of bad but not all the way bad... don't want to spoil anything but the parents were nothing to brag about even if they weren't criminal. and there's no way a 10 year old girl on her first trip to the mountains is going to know how to build a lean-to and how to avoid a grizzly bear. but mostly it was the narration I tried to listen to this book I think four times and each time I just put it away finally a year after I started and I had nothing else to listen to. I don't recommend it.

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very annoying performance but a decent story

Reviewed: 07-06-20

maybe this book just didn't translate well to audio but I do actually blame it on The voice work. it was full of inconsistencies and difficult to follow. they're also little glitches in the research for instance ... juxtaposing two numbers on your credit card throws up a flag that doesn't pass muster. but mostly it was the voices much too similar and sometimes I heard Claire's voice coming out of Hannah's mouth.

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Simon says... there was just nothing to love

Reviewed: 07-04-20

I find myself listening to a lot of stories where the main male character is a super jerk in one way or another. but this was the first time that I felt there was absolutely nothing lovable in Simon. it stressed believability to the extreme and was very unsatisfying you just wanted to shake every woman in the plot line and tell them to run away!
he was so hateful that the entire storyline became unbelievable.
and where was the editor when the verb "inferred" was used... when it should have been "implied' ? when that happened I upped the audio to three times as fast because I wanted to be done with it!

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would have benefited from some cult research

Reviewed: 07-03-20

things were too neat and tidy. performances were spotty inflections and I really did not like the father's voice I'm pretty sure it was a woman doing a man's voice and sometimes that works this time it just really didn't..

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easy listening with good suspense

Reviewed: 06-29-20

the story is good morning and the characters are clear-cut although I think I figured it out about three-quarters of the way through. there's a lot of bad guys and it seems like all the good guys get in trouble.

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predictable

Reviewed: 06-14-20

I'm glad I didn't pay anything for this because there was nothing about it that I would have wanted to pay for. it kept me occupied while I was mowing the lawn.

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rock and roll, 9/11, and politics

Reviewed: 06-09-20

I really enjoyed the characters, and I was glad 4 the starts and stops and happy and sad endings that I encountered. there was one slow part in the book and that was Flora's college career... if I hadn't had so many chapters remaining I may have just stopped. it was a very slow-moving and confusing. perhaps I should have been a separate essay or something. it did little to tell us more about Florida and even less to make us like flora more. in the end I felt like it was a story of pack of rather spoiled kids. .. though some of the kids were adults. but I liked that each character seemed to pretty much get what they deserve and then some and I mean that in a good way this was. not a feel bad book.

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