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Carrie Gessner
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When Grace Pembleton inherited her grandfather's business in rural Pennsylvania, she had no idea what else she was in for. She thought life as a bed-and-breakfast owner would be a quiet one, that the only trouble she'd encounter would be making enough coffee for guests. What she gets instead is a violent gnome, a resident ghost, a secret society, and continuous brushes with the supernatural. Even with new friends at her side, she struggles to fulfill her family's legacy of protecting the town. Then a new threat arises, and it wants Grace.
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"I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review'
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Overall I really liked this story asks found it original. The characters are pleasently unique also. The only thing that stopped me from fixing a 5 star rating wad the narration. When using her normal voice the narration was great, but some of the characters were voiced snippet cheesy.
enjoyed
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hard to follow
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Not What I expected
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fun, quirky romp
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It's a confusing book, even more so when you listen to it, I think.
On the one hand, it has quite a unique, intriguing and really engaging story, with the Pembleton family being the centre of all that is going on in the town and the magic/paranormal occurances that happen. It also has a bunch of interesting characters, both positive and negative. The imagery is rich, the plot fast, the ending rather surprising... and yet I felt confused almost all the time.
Why? There are several reasons for that (some of them already mentioned by other reviewers), like the hash tag blah blah - I did not follow fully even one of those exchanges - or the fact that Grace talks too much (that inner constant comment/monologue made my brain go totally blank... ) My biggest problem with the book though was that I constantly felt as if I was missing some parts of the story - I caught myself wondering several times what was going on, why Grace was doing what she was doing and what (and to whom) she was talking about... It's as if my brain did not register some important pieces of information - and I have no idea whether it was the result of the way the book was written or the way it was narrated - or maybe it was my wavering focus that made me "sleep" over some parts of the story... Which in itself means that the pace was uneven and the story less engaging than it might have been. I don't usually lose focus when listening to a story whose pace is right and plot intense... Somehow I didn't feel any real danger, any 'race against time' kind of tension in this story... Pity, because the premise sounded really great.
As for the narration, it's quite good, but again uneven. Ms Price does narrative parts really well, but some of the voices she gives particular characters just don't ring right for me, and the 'hash tag' parts were read so fast that I just couldn't follow them at all. But I would listen to another book read by her with pleasure.
DISCLAIMER: I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
Makes you feel confused while listening...
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A Modern Twist of a Witch’s Tale and then some
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The stroke of Thirteen
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The only big issue I'd say I had with this story was the in-between chapter text/social media messages. I guess the way they were written, well it was somewhat confusing as to what was even going on/being said between the characters. I would have either deleted those from the narration script or rewritten them for easier understanding. I wasn't a fan of those.
The narrator did a great job. The only things that stood out to me were: 1. There were times when Grace’s mother sounded Jamaican, like before I realized she was actually Indian. 2. Clara’s Brazilian accent was questionable. While I don’t personally know any Brazilians, after listening to some youtube videos of Brazilians speaking English, I’m curious to know how long Clara had been in this town and why she spoke so slowly? Other than those two, I had no other issues. I’d definitely listen to her narrate again.
Questions/Comments:
I might have missed this part, but where did the ghost in the b & b come from?
How long had her two best friends (supernatural hunters) been in this town?
There was mention of the sheriff wearing a Kazastani flag on her uniform. What was that all about?
When it came to introductions, why was Allison the only described as being a “young, white woman?” There was no other mention of race when it came to the characters, like with Grace, I didn’t realize she was part Indian for a good portion of the book.
The funniest or most questionable part was after Aaron’s/Erin’s death. A sketchbook was found nearby, and it was believed that she had sketched her killer prior to death. How much time did she have to where she could sketch, yet couldn’t run away?
There was a part when Grace was sitting in the back of an ambulance, wrapped in a blanket. Her friend comes over to her and they talk for a while. This was when Grace told her friend (the male one-not sure how to spell his name) that she knew he liked Clara. Anyways, they’re on the ambulance bay when suddenly it goes back to them and Grace is sitting in the grass (after it’d been raining) and Clara and Roland are suddenly in the ambulance bay. I might have misunderstood that scene but yeah…
Tilly ends up trying to kill Grace. What does Grace do? She knocks her out and ties her to the staircase, then goes in search for clues, leading her to her father’s journal. Why didn’t she call the sheriff? Or her friends?
How did Grace know that she’d be able to stab the witch statue? This was another part in which I felt like I was either clueless about what was going on or…I don’t know what. I thought there was only a little mention of the statue here and there throughout the story. Yet, I felt like Grace was learning all this information that wasn’t actually in the story.
How did Grace know that Perry was an immortal? Again, I felt lost with that news also.
This was an interesting take on a b & b.
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Seems like a decent cozy, but couldn’t finish
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