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The Ruins

By: Lindsey Crittenden
Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan
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A stained-glass artist finds herself threatened when her teenaged daughter forms a close friendship. Memories of her own best teenaged friendship, and of an unsettling encounter amid ancient ruins, force the artist to face her own role in destruction.

©2013 Lindsey Crittenden (P)2016 Audible, Inc. Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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First of all, this is a decent story. The narrator is great. Sometimes I forgot that there was only one narrator. The story was pretty good. It had a great concept, but started dreadfully slow. It took me a LONG time to get really really into it. In the end, I stuck it out and enjoyed it.
I didn’t like that there were kind of sub plots or something. Like there were a few different story lines that took attention away from the main story line and I kept waiting for everything to tie together and be like OMG...but it never happened. I felt like those little extra storylines could have been their own book and be left out of this one.
I didn’t like that the detective wasn’t that great at his job lol. I mean he’s supposed to be an awesome detective, but he missed everything all the time. I like really good, strong “hero’s” or whatever. None of the characters communicated with one another. That’s annoying to me. They could have helped each other.

I will add that I ALWAYS figure out the end of books or the plot twists etc WAY too soon. I’m always trying to find a book that can SHOCK me. This one did a pretty decent job of that. I didn’t really figure everything out until the end. However, that may have been bc there were so many holes and loose ends left everywhere in all the sub plots.
But as a free book, it’s good. If you are like me, and just reading this to pass the time until you have a new credit, yes it’s worth it. It’s not the best book ever but certainly not the worst.

Overall ok

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