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The Last Letter
- A Novel
- By: Rebecca Yarros
- Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton, Jennifer Stark
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,746
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,572
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,566
Beckett: If you’re reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didn’t. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there was any chance you could have saved me, you would have. I need one thing from you: get out of the army and get to Telluride. My little sister Ella’s raising the twins alone. She’s too independent and won’t accept help easily, but she has lost our grandmother, our parents, and now me. It’s too much for anyone to endure. And here’s the kicker: there’s something else you don’t know that’s tearing her family apart.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What in the actual f@#k!
- By Booklover876🇯🇲 on 07-26-19
- The Last Letter
- A Novel
- By: Rebecca Yarros
- Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton, Jennifer Stark
Emotional ride
Reviewed: 07-27-24
This was a really great book. Got me crying multiple times. Unexpected and fantastic. Part of me hated the author at times, like wtf lady? Why’d you do that? But seriously awesome book.
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Crave (Part 2 of 2) (Dramatized Adaptation)
- Crave, Book 1
- By: Tracy Wolff
- Narrated by: full cast, Drew Kopas, David Cui Cui, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4 out of 5 stars 31
My whole world changed when I stepped inside the academy. Nothing is right about this place or the other students in it. Here I am, a mere mortal among gods...or monsters. I still can't decide which of these warring factions I belong to, if I belong at all. I only know the one thing that unites them is their hatred of me. Then there's Jaxon Vega. A vampire with deadly secrets who hasn't felt anything for a hundred years. But there's something about him that calls to me, something broken in him that somehow fits with what's broken in me. Which could spell death for us all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Twilight meets Legacies set in a snowy Alaskan Castle... with a dungeon? Spicy-ish YA novel
- By Kaden Henshaw on 12-09-24
- Crave (Part 2 of 2) (Dramatized Adaptation)
- Crave, Book 1
- By: Tracy Wolff
- Narrated by: full cast, Drew Kopas, David Cui Cui, Alejandro Ruiz, Melody Muze, Yenni Ann, Wyn Delano, Anthony Palmini, Julienne Irons, Gabriel Michael, Eric Messner, Eva Wilhelm
Something is missing.
Reviewed: 02-27-24
This was my first listen (and read) to the book series. And this dramatized adaption is either dropping parts of the story or the story is lacking.
***spoilers***
Examples: story is about Grace who is forced to attend a High School that her Uncle is the headmaster of after her parents were killed in a car accident. Grace comes to learn that this is a special school and students are vampires, dragons, wolf shapeshifters, and witches. Grace ends up liking Jackson, a vampire prince. She learns that he’s unusual because he was ‘born’ not made. At the end of this adaptation, we get a repeat of some earlier scenes in Jackson’s voice. At this point he tells us he’s 100 years old. Uhh? A 100 year old high schooler? Grace’s cousin repeats that most of the kids have known each other since 5th grade, which is why the cliques are so well defined (Grace didn’t originally know it’s a school for special kids). In Jackson’s voice we also learn that his brother, Hudson, found his mate 5 years ago, and we know that his brothers mate, Leah, is in the same grade as Jackson. So mated as an 8th grader who is 95 years old? How does this world work? Grace also made an issue of “it’ll be weird if he’s very old” and that weirdness went away because she learned Jackson was born.
Also, we know that Jackson wanted grace far from the school, we know that he told Grace’s uncle that it wasn’t safe for her. We just have no idea why Jackson thought this, at the end, in his voice, we hear all this. At this point we also know that he suspects ‘something’ is happening with the shifters and dragons but no one is talking. Minutes into meeting Grace he realizes she’s his mate and but tries to warn her to leave the school. Why? This was all before he knew what anyone had planned.
Also, another plot hole… Grace who’s portrayed as this intelligent junior in High School who is super inquisitive… she just accepts what Leah told her with no questions? I.e. Grace’s parents were killed by Leah in an attempt to bring Grace to this school because somehow Leah knew Grace was mates to Jackson. And it’s worth noting Grace has never met any of these people, and hadn’t even seen her cousin since they were 5 years old. Grace learns all this at a very harrowing point to the story, and there’s plenty of pages left, but Grace never questions why Leah singled her out. Why Leah killed her parents. How Leah knew Grace was Jackson’s mate.
Either the author had sloppy writing/editing or the dramatized adaptation’s director had sloppy direction(/abridging).
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