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They call books like this having “surprising twists“

Reviewed: 01-25-25

Although they called books like this having “unexpected or surprising twist“, I call it unnecessary complication. As I got to the last hour, I became more and more frustrated. It became so confusing about motives, and who did what to whom and why. Eventually, I stopped listening to it before the end. I think there is possibility and these sorts of books, but it gets to be so ridiculous at the end when they reveal motives. Overall unrealistically complicated

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Immature and ridiculous

Reviewed: 11-24-24

I hated this book. Jumped to the last 38 minutes just to see how it ended and it was as ridiculous as the rest that I listen to. I do not recommend.

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Phenomenal change in the same old thing

Reviewed: 08-24-24

I’m always looking for books that have a different plot. I am becoming incredibly bored with the same old scenario on many of this genre mysteries/thriller. It was so great to find some thing so unusual and fun to read with a great plot.

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Unnecessarily complicated

Reviewed: 07-18-24

I absolutely loved the first 3/4 of this book. Very much wanted to stay up all night trying to finish it. The plot had ripped. However, the ending was outrageously complicated and unnecessary. I even went back and read the last few chapters to try to understand how it all fit together. Overall, very disappointed and unnecessarily complicated, but in my mind. This is why I gave it a lower down. I hate it do this at the end, throw a lot of chaos of the plot and please get frustrated.

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Not my favorite

Reviewed: 05-20-24

I usually love this narrator, but in this book she drives me bonkers. Too many high-pitched voices. Also I found two areas in the book where there were editing issues. Where the sentences were read twice, each one with different inflections. Some thing the editing should have taken out. That always bothers me when it’s done sloppy. And overall, the book is OK, but I thought the plot twist was Quite ridiculous. It would’ve been better if it was shorter, the characters were developed more, and the plots weren’t so complicated that it make you roll your eyes.

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I can’t

Reviewed: 04-19-24

I am a quitter. The story looks so good and I really tried… But I just simply cannot get past the narrator. It’s almost like she’s mumbling, and even though I have read/listen to other audiobooks where the narrator makes me cringe a little bit, and still got through them… I just can’t.

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What???

Reviewed: 04-17-24

I honestly have never been more confused about the reasoning or plot in a book. I actually rewound and listen several times to try to connect all the dots in this very confusing story. Still makes absolutely no sense. I feel like it was finished off very quickly and, I would not recommend it.

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The Pamela Smart story

Reviewed: 04-02-24

I’m surprised nobody else has mentioned that this is basically the Pamela Smart story. The teacher in New Hampshire who enticed teenage boys to murder her husband in the 90s. If you read this book through that lens, this is characters voice is so perfect. Sounds like a manipulative, fake, and non-credible facts. I rated the story low because it really seem to be just a rehash of the Pamela Smart crime.

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Fabulous 

Reviewed: 02-13-24

I listen to this in one day. So exciting and fun to have a book that captures me from the beginning to the very end. Loved it. Loved it. Loved it. The only downside is, now when I go to find another book to read nothing will live up to this one. These are very few and far between anymore. 

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Mediocre 

Reviewed: 01-30-24

This looks like an interesting storyline. Nowadays, there are so many suspense/thriller books that have the same type of storyline. I ended up fast forwarding through to the end of this book, because I felt very bored. It was very slow and ironically, I was able to guess the ending about halfway through the book. also, I thought the characters were very shallow and not developed at all. I will continue searching for the next great read. This just was not it. 

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