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One Last Hope

A Voyage to Escape Nazi Germany

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One Last Hope

By: Roberta Kagan
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This title uses virtual voice narration

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On May 13th 1939, five strangers boarded the MS St. Louis, Promised a future of safety away from Nazi Germany and Hitler’s third Reich unbeknownst to them they were about to embark upon a voyage built on secrets, lies, and treachery. Sacrifice, love, life, and death hung in the balance as each fought against fate but the voyage was just the beginning. Historical Fiction Jewish World Literature
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Like many of Kagan’s books, there are some discrepancies in the stories. In this story, it says Alana’s mother made sure she couldn’t conceive. But she did have two children later when she married. Alana’s story is compelling and disturbing, Drawing deeply on our sympathies.

The problem I have with some of the readers, in many books, is they do not know how to pronounce Yiddish. They should have been coached on pronunciation and have proper research into Jewish customs.

Aside from this, the story, especially the history, is interesting. The AI reader fell short to me from a real human voice. In this story, the AI reader missed pronounced many words and lacked a human response to some words and ideas and phrasing.

Please don’t use AI readers.

Keep writing stories about WWII. We need to keep this history alive more than ever.

Thank you for this book.

Poor pronunciation, Interesting story

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I would have liked to finish book for the story was good. I just don't like the narration

couldn't finish ... bad virtual narrator

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The story was a good listen, once you get past the fake voice. I love WW2 time stories, it's something we should never forget, so that it happens, never again.

Computerized voice doesn't pronounce everything correctly.

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I was not happy with the reading of the novel. although it was clear it did not have what a human reader brings to the reading.

How they learn to survive and adapted to their new way of living their lives.

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I wish this book had been narrated by a human. The text was good, but Polish read as “polish” is incredibly annoying.

Disappointed with Virtual Voice

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Interesting story. A few holes in the plot. Computer generated narration made it difficult to follow conversations as everyone sounded the same. Emphasis put in wrong place many times.

Awful narration

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Virtual voice can't seem to figure out proper nouns. The pronunciation of a name might end up having 4 different versions and forget about Yiddish words. Inflection and understanding who was supposed to be speaking was occasionally very difficult . Virtual voice made it seem like an average 5th grade student wrote the book. A true disservice to the author.

Virtual voice sank this book

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Roberta did it again. So good finished in two days!! Can't wait for her next book.

Great read!

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I enjoyed everything about this book! It’s one you simply cannot put down. I’m pretty sure I felt every emotion while devouring this novel. The story has depth, more than I expected. The only negative I can identify is the narration is done by AI (artificial intelligence). But within the first 3 chapters you forget because your so into the book.

Great book!

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The AI narration was very bad. It made listening very difficult couldn’t tell who was speaking. Men had female voice and the expressions of tone and timing was very poor.

Bad narration

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