One Last Hope

A Voyage to Escape Nazi Germany

De: Roberta Kagan

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

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.

couldn't finish ... bad virtual narrator

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

AI narrator (virtual voice)

AI Narrator lacks authentic emotion, stilted voice. It was an unfortunate choice for a Holocaust story.

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

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.

Poor pronunciation, Interesting story

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.

Another great story

I absolutely love this author and what she publishes. I really hope she rerecords this book with a real narrator. It is a great story, but the virtual voices are always an awful joykill.

Awful narration

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.

Virtual voice sank this book

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.

Computerized voice doesn't pronounce everything correctly.

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.

The gut wrenching choice these people fad to make!

I knew about the ship being turned back from Cuba but the captains dedication to try and save his passengers was heroic . The fact that the passengers had considered mass suicide breaks your heart.

AI does not ….

AI voice often mispronounced words, endings of sentences were flat, and the lack of emotion made it harder to connect with the story.