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dnf@ 25%

Reviewed: 08-13-19

Admittedly, I only listened to 3 hours of a 12 hour story, so it's possible it becomes better after that mark. Still, after more than half an hour of babbling that had NOTHING to do with the story, I just gave up. In annoyance.

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dnf @ 1:17

Reviewed: 07-03-19

Admittedly, I quit quite early, but up until then I hated everything. The voice of the female narrator, the characters, the plot. Especially the immature heroine drove me crazy. The other huge NO-NO was that everything seemed to be have done for the money, which also supposed to make things okay.

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How stupid

Reviewed: 07-02-19

How stupid can a woman be? The heroine leaves, supposedly the love of her life, on their wedding day, without demanding an explanation for the thing he supposedly did to her. Not immediately and not for eight years.
The hero is the other ass. How does he not demand explanation for eight years, when his heart is supposedly broken?
The story was well written, but cliche. Plus, I'm really bored with those stories that have an eventually totally meaningless "big secret". It made me to keep on listening, but I hated every minute. But not quitting at about halfway makes me the most stupid of all.

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Sooooooooo booooooooring

Reviewed: 06-30-19

I usually love these narrators, but this time, maybe because of the bad story, they didn't do it for me this time.
Of the story I can only say that I could have cut out 2.5 hours of the first three.
I will never read / listen to anything from Emma Chase again. Lucky it came with the package, and I didn't have to waste good money on it.

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Narration irritating to the extreme

Reviewed: 06-29-19

I was happy to find such a series, and I didn't go in order, this was the first book I listened to.
Yet, after the performance in this one, I am not sure I'm going to continue. I think it was extremely annoying that the narrators used a French accent all the way for most of the characters. Which meant that most of the book was narrated like this as well.
The book coould have used a little more of the mistery and less of the family saga. Otherwise the story was okay, although the BIG SECRET could have come out much earlier, and the book wrapped up sooner. It would have made for a better story, but I guess the writer was paid by the page.

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Good one with an annoying heroine

Reviewed: 06-25-19

This one could have used some more of the hero's pov.
The heroine was an adolescent idiot. There's only so much her childhood trauma can explain.
As an NY TV hostess, she should be able to understand the world better. A grown woman who flinches when others curse, and has no balls to be honest just once, is just irritating. That she doesn't notice that she's used at work, that she might be sought after in her line of work after becoming super famous... Plus, she says nothing when her sister, who is wanted by the police is fleeing. Call the effing police! Tell her that running from the law is not very helpful!
No love to her from me.
But, the hero, who is not running after the woman he supposedly love, but trying to pacify the one he doesn't care about? And then he's brooding she doesn't answer his calls? What's with that?
All in all, it was painful to finish the book, even though it was a better one in its genre.

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I wish I haven't started

Reviewed: 06-20-19

Starting at about 30 minutes in, my only thought was what can come out of this that I would be willing to listen to for 14 more hours.
At 41 minutes I had to admit that I couldn't bare it anymore. Painfully slow, badly edited story, with a supposedly genius, straightforward and ballsy heroine being a slightly dumb, unprofessional chit.
So even though I hate not finishing a book, I cut my losses and ran.

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Hackneyed revenge story, not too good performance

Reviewed: 06-18-19

Storyline is one in a million. I find that the good old "I have to be penitent for my father's sins" and the "I hate you because your father was an a**hole" lines annoy me after the 100000th time.
In addition, you have to get through ten hours of the twelve to get to the point. But then it comes in spades. One of them would have been enough. Plus, a few hours of the relationship push and pull would have been enough. Six hours would have been enough.
Yet, you get an average story within that frame, so just go for it.
And what's with the accentuation? It seems like the narrator introduces full stops where they have no place, which drags out the whole performance. It sounded almost like when somebody thinks I'm stupid, so they would talk to me nice and slow. Well, this was a mediocre novel and not rocket science. I got it.

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DISAPPOINTMENT & Cliffhanger

Reviewed: 06-10-19

Despite being in the romance package, this had no romance. On the other hand, it had a giant cliffhanger, which pissed me off because I liked the heroine so little that I just cannot suffer through another novel with her. Which resulted in the annoyance of wasting 2 hours for big fat NOTHING.
I would really appreciate if it was meade clear in the summaries that a book can only be enjoyed with the others in its series.

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Beware: it's one in the suffering series

Reviewed: 06-07-19

It was an okay listen in every way, BUT: I wish they warned me about the contents. All throughout I was wondering how much more suffering can the author pile on top, and she could always add more shit to the pile. It was way beyond your average "lovers getting over their difficult pasts together" storyline. Have I been interested in so much tragedy, I would have chosen a sociography. But I read this, and it left me shaken, and the ending was so abrupt, that it didn't help with processing all the negativity.

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