"One of the best performances I've listened to"
This is a cleverly written book, and the readers are outstanding. I wish Tiny's musical were real so I could see it now that I've heard some of the songs. The book looks at the problems of love and friendship in a high school setting. However I have to warn conservative readers that one of the book's threads is about homosexual love. It's tastefully done, but it's there. If that's going to bother you, read one of the authors' other books.
"Story comes together"
Only to a dedicated fantasy reader.
It is a teensy little bit Pernlike because there are dragons and people dedicated to them.
This narrator just isn't my favorite.
No! I had periods of being sick of it.
I feel as if many of the characters started developing personalities they didn't have in the first two books. Kennit actually became pretty interesting. I still waiting on Althea.
"I can't figure this book out"
I loved Robin Hobbs's Assassin books so much that I wanted to read more of her books set in that world. The characters were interesting and their motivations made sense. In this book the characters don't make sense at all. I feel as if the author just conceived the characters as stick figures and then tried to throw in a few inconsistencies to round them out. And the reaader drives me nuts. Maybe I should try listening at a faster speed to see if she sounds better.
I still like the world Robin Hobbs has created.
I guess I don't have a choice, since I have decided to stick it out and listen to the rest of the liveship books.
No, I don't think it would work.
"Just too many words"
I felt that 1Q84 was a waste of time and couldn't finish it. The book has an interesting premise and I even like the characters, but it just goes on and on. The author repeats himself terribly--every now and then he even puts in a plot summary, as if realizing that he has written so much trivia that the reader may have forgotten what was going on a hundred pages ago. The author also spends way too much time discussing body parts and sex. He can't relay a conversation between Tengo and his girlfriend without a penis as a prop. I wish someone who made it through to the end of the book would let me know how everything resolved, because the Wikipedia plot summary I found was a little sparse. But even if it means never knowing, I just can't sit through any more descriptions of Tengo's erections.
Probably not.
I thought the readers were very good.
"Twilight Meets Jurassic Park"
Paranormal romance plus genetics: slightly less silly than most.. The writing is OK and the characters not quite as painfully juvenile as some.
"Darkly humorous and a little disturbing"
I grew up horrified by the Holocaust. I read Anne Frank when I was in junior high. In high school I read a three-volume documentary of antisemitism throughout history. I have to admit that I didn't know what to think about a book whose theme is, "never forgetting the Holocaust is not the same as talking about it all the time." I'm not sure even now that it's OK for a non-Jew to think this book is funny. OK, I admit it. I think it's funny. But I'm a little uncomfortable with thinking that.
"Sci fi giant degenerates into dirty old man"
I am really disappointed in this book. The interesting concepts about travelling around space-time are completely overshadowed by the 78-year-old author's fantasies about plural marriage with 12-year-old girls. Bleck.
"I really hated this book"
Maybe it's a girl thing. I love Miles Vorkosigan. I hate Prince Roger and his whole milieu. I thought the science fiction aspect of the book was clever, but everything else stank: character development, plot, dialog--especially dialog!
But, as I say, it might be a girl thing. I can see my son-in-law loving this book.