5 Stages of Grief

By: Bethany Ramos

Narrated by: Melissa Booey

Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

Danielle thinks that the worst is behind her, but she couldn't have been more wrong...As a beauty editor of Denver's hot new High Life magazine, Danielle Starkey didn't have becoming a widow on her to-do list. Then nine months after her husband's death, she discovers he booked a vacation with another woman. Suddenly, Danielle sees Adam's death in a whole new light and has to get over it - for the second time. Hit with the truth when she least expects it, Danielle brings a fresh, funny, and honest approach to the grieving process as she struggles through online dating, stalking her dead husband's mistress, and, hopefully, finding the man of her dreams. With her stubborn and sassy best friend, April, by her side, Danielle refuses to let sleeping dogs lie. Will she finally face the truth about herself and her marriage? Or, will she succumb to one of the five stages of grief?

©2011 Black Opal Books (P)2015 Black Opal Books

Unexpected

This read was more interesting then I expected. There were several reading mistakes, but overall it was a good read.

They invented soundproof rooms for a reason

I didn't mind this book overall, but I spent so much time distracted by the fact that it sounded like the narrator was in her bedroom, bathroom, car, lounge room doing the narration. At one point I am 99% sure I heard someone doing dishes in the background. The sound levels vary so a few chapters will be at one volume and then you can hardly hear it for the next few. Editing wasn't the greatest and having 'end of chapter x' at the end of each chapter was a tad annoying. I feel a little bad as I didn't mind the overall narration style, it was just very distracting when I am used to 'standard' narration sound quality.

Mediocre story with amateurish narration

Hearing the sound of a chair scraping or sirens in the background was distracting enough, but the narrator's attempts to "act" out her role was horrendous. The only reason I listened through to the end was that I was on a long trip with nothing else downloaded.

Good story and performance...BAD audio quality

The story is good and so is the performance, but the audio is very poor quality. I could tell she was reading the story very well, but there was background noise along with other bad quality audio.

I couldn’t get pasted the poor recording

I couldn’t get pasted the poor recording. It sounded like she was recording it on her phone.

sound quality

sound quality was off sounded like it was recorded at home did not sound professional

If you can get it in print

overall Good book but narration is just bad not so much actual narration as to sound because it just sounds like they are in a tunnel or a room shouting into a microphone.

Cute story, could have been better

I really liked the story line. Unfortunately, the narration was horrible. Sometimes she sounded close to the mic other times she sounded like she was across the room. Whoever edited this did not do a thorough job because many times sentences were repeated. Also, I’m not sure where this was done, but I swear at one point I heard cows mooing in the background and actually rewound it to listen again. Another time I heard what sounded like an emergency vehicle and lastly a lawn mower. Also the narrator seemed a little bored so it was hard to follow sometimes.