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Camilla Rockley
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Sam Newton
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Mariam Abu-Hejleh
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Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa Novel Award
In this powerful, highly anticipated novel from an award-winning author, four people attempt to make a home in the midst of environmental disaster.
Perched on a sloping hill, set away from a small town by the sea, the High House has a tide pool and a mill, a vegetable garden, and, most importantly, a barn full of supplies. Caro, Pauly, Sally, and Grandy are safe, so far, from the rising water that threatens to destroy the town and that has, perhaps, already destroyed everything else. But for how long?
Caro and her younger half-brother, Pauly, arrive at the High House after her father and stepmother fall victim to a faraway climate disaster - but not before they call and urge Caro to leave London. In their new home, a converted summer house cared for by Grandy and his granddaughter, Sally, the two pairs learn to live together. Yet there are limits to their safety, limits to the supplies, limits to what Grandy - the former village caretaker, a man who knows how to do everything - can teach them as his health fails.
A searing novel that takes on parenthood, sacrifice, love, and survival under the threat of extinction, The High House is a stunning, emotionally precise novel about what can be salvaged at the end of the world.
©2021 Jessie Greengrass. All rights reserved. (P)2021 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd. All rights reserved.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 22
The world is about to end. Again. Ever since the first Storm wreaked havoc on civilization as we know it, seventeen-year-old Liz Flannery has been holed up in an abandoned bookstore in suburban New Jersey where she used to work, trading books for supplies with the few remaining survivors. It’s the one place left that feels safe to her. Until she learns that another earth-shattering Storm is coming . . . and everything changes. Enter Maeve, a prickly and potentially dangerous out-of-towner who breaks into the bookstore looking for shelter one night.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I like it.
- De Marj en 01-30-25
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Blue Skies
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 15 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Denied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful boyfriend, Cat decides that she needs a snake: a glistening, writhing creature that can be worn like “jewelry, living jewelry.” But when the budding social influencer finally gives in to impulse, buying a Burmese python from a local pet shop, she sets in motion a chain of increasingly dire events that culminates in one of the most memorable denouements in recent fiction, one that ensnares her entire family, from her eco-obsessed parents, Ottilie and Frank, to her frat-boy-turned-husband, Todd.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic T.C. Boyle Novel
- De Lisa en 11-10-23
De: T. C. Boyle
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Damnation Spring
- De: Ash Davidson
- Narrado por: CJ Wilson, Rebecca Lowman, Mark Sanderlin, y otros
- Duración: 15 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 471
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 409
Colleen and Rich Gundersen are raising their young son, Chub, on the rugged California coast. It’s 1977, and life in this Pacific Northwest logging town isn’t what it used to be. For generations, the community has lived and breathed timber; now that way of life is threatened. Colleen is an amateur midwife. Rich is a tree-topper. It’s a dangerous job that requires him to scale trees hundreds of feet tall - a job that both his father and grandfather died doing. Colleen and Rich want a better life for their son - and they take steps to assure their future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Many sides to the story, beautifully told
- De A. Golden en 09-03-21
De: Ash Davidson
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The Ancients
- A Novel
- De: John Larison
- Narrado por: Dani Martineck
- Duración: 13 h y 17 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
A young boy and his older sisters find themselves suddenly and utterly alone, orphaned in an abandoned fishing village. Their food supplies dwindling, they set out across a breathtaking yet treacherous wilderness in search of the last of their people. Down the coast, raiders deliver the children's mother, along with the rest of their human cargo, to the last port city of a waning empire. Determined to reunite with her family, she plots her escape—while her fellow captives plan open revolt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such a well written and thought provoking book!
- De kat en 11-09-24
De: John Larison
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The Deluge
- De: Stephen Markley
- Narrado por: Corey Brill, Danny Campbell, Gibson Frazier, y otros
- Duración: 40 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 374
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 349
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 348
In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Couldn’t get into it.
- De Review Reviewer en 01-20-23
De: Stephen Markley
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All the Water in the World
- A Novel
- De: Eiren Caffall
- Narrado por: Eunice Wong
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 35
All the Water in the World is told in the voice of a girl gifted with a deep feeling for water. In the years after the glaciers melt, Nonie, her older sister and her parents and their researcher friends have stayed behind in an almost deserted New York City, creating a settlement on the roof of the American Museum of Natural History. The rule: Take from the exhibits only in dire need. They hunt and grow their food in Central Park as they work to save the collections of human history and science. When a superstorm breaches the city’s flood walls, Nonie and her family must escape north.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A future world
- De AprilG en 01-24-25
De: Eiren Caffall
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Gun Island
- A Novel
- De: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrado por: Sagar Arya
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 200
Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island is a beautifully realized novel that effortlessly spans space and time. It is the story of a world on the brink, of increasing displacement and unstoppable transition. But it is also a story of hope, of a man whose faith in the world and the future is restored by two remarkable women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved the story and the narrator
- De Frances en 10-10-19
De: Amitav Ghosh
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Run for the Hills
- A Novel
- De: Kevin Wilson
- Narrado por: Marin Ireland
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it’s just been Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. While she sometimes admits it’s a bit lonely and a less exciting life than she imagined for herself, it’s mostly OK. Mostly. Then one day Reuben Hill pulls up in a PT Cruiser and informs Madeline that he believes she’s his half sister.
De: Kevin Wilson
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The Bear
- De: Andrew Krivak
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 4 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 313
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 278
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 277
A girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last of humankind. But when the girl finds herself alone in an unknown landscape, it is a bear that will lead her back home through a vast wilderness that offers the greatest lessons of all, if she can only learn to listen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interconnectedness of all life
- De Sherrie Brownell en 07-18-20
De: Andrew Krivak
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The Imagined Life
- A Novel
- De: Andrew Porter
- Narrado por: Lee Osorio
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Steven Mills has reached a crossroads. His wife and son have left, and they may not return. Which leaves him determined to find out what happened to his own father, a brilliant, charismatic professor who disappeared in 1984 when Steve was twelve, on a wave of ignominy. As Steve drives up the coast of California, seeking out his father’s friends, family members, and former colleagues, the novel offers us tantalizing glimpses into Steve’s childhood—his parents’ legendary pool parties, the black-and-white films on the backyard projector, secrets shared with his closest friend.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good writing
- De Suzanna en 04-27-25
De: Andrew Porter
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Cat's People
- A Novel
- De: Tanya Guerrero
- Narrado por: Elena Rey
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
Núria, a single-by-choice barista with a little resentment for the “crazy cat lady” label, is a member of The Meow-Yorkers, a group in Brooklyn who takes care of the neighborhood’s stray cats. On her volunteering days, she starts finding Post-it notes left by a secret admirer in an area where she feeds her favorite stray—a black cat named Cat. Like most felines, he is both curious and observant, so of course he knows who the notes are from. Núria, however, is clueless.
De: Tanya Guerrero
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How High We Go in the Dark
- A Novel
- De: Sequoia Nagamatsu
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan, Brian Nishii, Keisuke Hoashi, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,812
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,591
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,590
In 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika Crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus. Once unleashed, the Arctic plague will reshape life on Earth for generations to come, quickly traversing the globe, forcing humanity to devise a myriad of moving and inventive ways to embrace possibility in the face of tragedy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Should come with a sadness warning
- De KJH en 03-16-22
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The Employees
- A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
- De: Olga Ravn
- Narrado por: Hannah Curtis
- Duración: 2 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 162
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 133
Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes strangely and deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the humanoids.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I think this was a story?
- De Jordan en 07-02-23
De: Olga Ravn
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Weather
- A Novel
- De: Jenny Offill
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 3 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 233
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 232
Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years, she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. She's become famous for her prescient podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Read This Article Before Listening to Weather
- De MOR Denver en 04-28-20
De: Jenny Offill
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How Beautiful We Were
- A Novel
- De: Imbolo Mbue
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi, Janina Edwards, Dion Graham, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 605
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 534
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 530
We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are made - and ignored. The country’s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interests.
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5 out of 5 stars
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As relevant as it is heart-wrenching
- De Anonymous User en 10-18-21
De: Imbolo Mbue
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The Light Pirate
- De: Lily Brooks-Dalton
- Narrado por: Rosemary Benson
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 608
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 549
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 548
Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state’s infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an electrical line worker, his pregnant wife, Frida, and their two sons, Flip and Lucas, prepare for the worst. When the boys go missing just before the hurricane hits, Kirby heads out into the high winds in search of his children. Left alone, Frida goes into premature labor and gives birth to an unusual child, Wanda, whom she names after the catastrophic storm.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Listed under "action adventure"????
- De NMwritergal en 12-14-22
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American War
- A Novel
- De: Omar El Akkad
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,353
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,139
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,133
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best listen in years
- De odin en 04-08-17
De: Omar El Akkad
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Oryx and Crake
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Campbell Scott
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,763
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,147
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,169
The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant Science Fiction
- De Michael en 05-20-03
De: Margaret Atwood
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The High House
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Ejecución4 out of 5 stars
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- Bill
- 05-28-23
Easy listen
Not a real captivating listen but still good. Character description & their actions/intentions were a little vague & a bit unbelievable. Managed to keep me engaged throughout but not very exciting.
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- mdelafield
- 07-09-23
Narration difficult
While the story is a bit depressing I was captivated, However, the accents were difficult to absorb through my Americanized ears.
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- Jane
- 02-27-23
Wonderful book
The writing was more beautiful than I expected. The environment was like a character. Amazing story!
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