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The Morbids
- Narrated by: Holly Robinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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The Morbids
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Publisher's summary
A story of friendship, love and what it means to truly live when, sometimes, it may seem easier not to.
Caitlan is convinced she's going to die. Two years ago she was a normal 20-something with a blossoming career and a plan to go travelling with her best friend, until a fatal car accident left her with a deep, unshakeable understanding that she's only alive by mistake. She deals with these thoughts by throwing herself into work, self-medicating with alcohol and attending a support group for people with death-related anxiety, informally known as the Morbids. But when her best friend announces she's getting married in Bali and she meets a handsome doctor named Tom, Caitlan must overcome her fear of death and learn to start living again.
Beautiful, funny and universally relatable, this story of hidden loneliness and the power of compassion and companionship reminds us that life is an adventure truly worth living.
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- Winsome Bailey
- 09-23-20
Eye wateringly boring.
Read such a glowing review, I bought it immediately.
Almost dropped it a third of the way in, it was so boring. I re-read the review and gave it the benefit of the doubt that it would improve.
It didn’t.
It’s not a terrible book, I just didn’t care about the character and her ordeals. The romantic subplot was just too ideal to be true even that was mind numbingly boring, at times I wondered if love interest was imaginary.
I sped it up to 1.3 speed just to get it over with faster.
Narrator was mostly good, esp considering the psyche of the protagonist. Bit cringe when she was emoting a lot, and her pronunciation of “gone” as “gawrn” irritated me.
Recommend for YA readers who are less cranky and cynical than I am.
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- HayleyLouise
- 11-22-20
Heavy, emotionally rewarding, and a great narrator
This book is a really heavy, emotionally charged and powerful narrative about a girl dealing with PTSD and other mental health issues related to events that have happened in her life. At times this book is quite confronting - with explicit descriptions of death scenarios - written in first person perspective, but I think may be unsettling to readers who have similar stories or lives.
As someone who can only empathise with the anxiety aspects of the character, I can't comment on the depiction of the other elements in the novel (particularly whether or not it's an accurate representation, if it's too triggering or is a good balance of adversity and how to overcome it) but I can say I found the book a really rewarding read. I really felt for the main character, and the other characters in the story. I found them all to be very realistic - particularly the relationship between the protagonist and her best friend.
Overall, it's a heart-warming story that you feel you earn, as you navigate her life and all the problems she has to deal with. I would only recommend it with the caveat that it's a heavy book and giving a few content warnings (hyperfixation on death, anxiety and depression).
*Audiobook review*
Wow. This was one of the most emotionally charged and powerful narrations I've experienced in a while. Holly Robinson did a fantastic job of imbuing tone and realistic expressions, especially during non-dialogue scenes in which we're left with the protagonists internal narration where she really starts to come off the rails.
There was a definite challenge in narration because of the constant inner-monologues interrupting scenes, but I think Holly Robinson navigated this deftly and did the book an absolute service. Being a first person narration, I think she really took the time to become the character and choose her style.
Side note, she also did wonderful accents for some of the other characters that had differing backgrounds.
Overall, an impressive narration and one to watch!
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-15-21
Slow
Play at 1.7 speed. The narration is slow, the story is repetitive, and this makes the experience tedious. Interesting topic, just a slow book.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-07-21
loved
fell in love with all the characters. was a very moving and easily relatable book.
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- Honeybee
- 03-02-21
Sometimes this stoy was hard to listen to.
Hope kept me listening to this book. The performer gave life to each of the characters. I was able to hearthe desparation in every chapter.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-22-20
so Sydney!
great sorry, relatable characters, captures the struggle of living with anxiety and the very real turmoil of bottling it up.
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- Wendy Marsh
- 10-19-20
LOVED it
Story and characters amazing. Holly Robinson best narrater by far. Love everything she narrates. Fantastic.
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