Martha T

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Reviewed: 11-18-23

Unique plot. there were a couple small plot holes, but as a whole the story was very enjoyable. The narrator was adept at conveying emotion and tone, but occasionally was difficult to determine which character she spoke as. I enjoyed the humor and that there was not the unnecessary dramatics of situations that have audiences screaming "that could have been resolved with one mature conversation."
As a whole, this is a very good "read" and I look forward to book two.

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It could've been great... but wasn't so DNF

Reviewed: 07-11-22

While I'm all for suspension of (dis)belief, this just didn't make sense. FMC is in an alternate dimension, terrified she'll be found out, so she won't tell anyone she's not who they think she is. But then goes to pound town with a guy who thinks she is someone else, and this is first time in a room alone with him. She even said (prior to their get together that if they did so he would know she's not the person she is LITERALLY pretending to be.
I can't tell if the FMC is as free with her body as she criticizes the woman she's impersonating for being; or is she just so shallow she can't even acknowledge how wrong it is to literally trick a person like that. He absolutely believed he was with another woman. There is no way anyone who isn't too dumb to live would sleep with a person of any authority less than 3 weeks if only professional encounters. Especially when they are trying to not be discovered as an imposter.

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more beta reading and less conflicting information

Reviewed: 04-15-22

**Spoiler Alert**

The overall plot has some unique elements. however there are significant issue with contradictory statements. 'sound of crashing makes the decision for FMC to go to school, but mother is sound asleep when she walks out the door.
I enjoy suspended reality, but the drunken beatings with no reason makes no sense. Even a drunkard will have a "reason" for the things they do.
Drunks and addicts also wouldn't throw a container with their fix in it, at someone.
the FMC is so afraid of people getting to know her, but she has had prior romantic relationships, and in less than 24hrs (and 3 sentences exchanged) she is calling these strangers "my guys". She wish washes about being friends and then lets these men she doesn't know just kiss her and touch her. while being traumatized and a victim of abuse.
the cafeteria scene, where a students have a physical altercation, shouting, and swearing. a student collapses on the floor. Then 4 brand new students were able take her from the school and agreed to her asinine request for no hospitals. and not a single school official had a thing to say?

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Just... WOW

Reviewed: 09-16-21

where do I start?? I'm not sure if I'm having a book hang over, or just emotionally exhausted. I have been loving Jane Washington for a little while now, and she just KEEPS. GETTING. BETTER.
There is a strength in The Tempest's fragility. Her acknowledgement of what has happened to her, what is happening around her and her fight just to maintain her most basic of rights inspires and terrifies me in equal measure.
There are few things more hopeless than having your human dignity stripped away with your innocence and then being persecuted without the ability to defend yourself guts me in ways I can't articulate.
And yet, this is a fictional character!! How?? she feels soul deep real. Ms. Washington, I both long to and fear spending an afternoon in your head. I think the adventure would be worth the danger!

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just no

Reviewed: 08-20-20

couldn't even finish it. I'm the premise was interesting and the performance was good. the story had more plot holes than Swiss cheese.

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no action but well performed

Reviewed: 08-16-20

I only made it through the first book. I appreciate how it really kept pace with the main characters war wound and gave realistic expectations of him with it. however this is sold as an MC romance. there is no action and almost no suspense. the narrator did a great job, but in short the book was boring.

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vapid, unbelievable, not relatable

Reviewed: 05-14-20

the best (and only) good part of this book is the narration. The main character is vapid. in the interest of full disclosure I didn't finish the book. when the main character started swooning for the boy who showed up late to class acting like a self important idiot. I just stopped. If there is someone who can relate to a girl who is instantly lusting after the idiot (while the teacher reacted in a completely unrealistic way) really needs to get their life priorities in order.
And what teacher who takes themselves seriously just tells a late, pompous, ass of a kid who called her moma to just sit down?

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just UGH!

Reviewed: 02-25-20

couldn't even finish this! the heroine is stupid and petty. she 'sounds' like a flake.
the final straw was the way she relayed her parents death and the way her brother was immediately deployed after the funeral. NO branch of the US military is going to do that. this book just kept piling up the stupid until I couldn't take it anymore!

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submissive men/gender changes/dominant heroine

Reviewed: 02-13-20

if you like a dominant heroine and needy submissive borderline feminine men with one who can change into a woman at will, then this for you.

the story is one big orgy without the benefit of the gritty details.

the narrator was wonderful though. she was dynamic and clear.

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overly technical and under developed

Reviewed: 01-25-20

i struggled to finish this. the story development was lost in an overload of technological terminology. I can appreciate understanding the technology of a dystopian world but I was overloaded with it.
I know that cats will eat dead people, but the amount of time the story focused on this was just gross.
the main character gets zero character development. she is unchanged from the start of the story. you know more about her and why she is the way she is, but she doesnt grow at all.
the narrator voice matched exactly how I would have thought the main character would sound... except the main character is British (or at least her father was and some of the things she says indicates she is too) and the narrator clearly is not.
roughly 90% of the book was one long ongoing drawn out overly technical battle. I enjoy a good fight but this actually became stale.
I almost want to here the second book but I really don't want to hear any more about cats eating dead people she saved IN THE FREEZER just for them...

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