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The Girl on the Train
- By: Paula Hawkins
- Narrated by: India Fisher, Louise Brealey, Clare Corbett
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24,177
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21,656
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21,662
Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I had doubts, I never should have. Brilliant
- By Andy on 26-01-15
- The Girl on the Train
- By: Paula Hawkins
- Narrated by: India Fisher, Louise Brealey, Clare Corbett
Not for me. Slow moving, too much introspection
Reviewed: 12-07-16
This book just didn't do it for me. I thought the narration was fine, but the characters just didn't grab me. The story is written in first-person narrative from the point of view of a few key characters, and they seem to spend an awful lot of time agonizing over the past, while only revealing snippets of the full picture to the reader. Maybe it's because I couldn't really identify with any of the situations that left those characters traumatized, but the book just dragged on, and in the end (after dutifully listening to the first 3.5 hours) I started skipping ahead to find where the actual action picks up. I probably only listened to 50% of the entire story in the end, and I didn't miss the skipped pieces either.
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Glamour in Glass
- By: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4 out of 5 stars 22
Mary Robinette Kowal stunned readers with her charming first novel, Shades of Milk and Honey, a loving tribute to the works of Jane Austen in a world where magic is an everyday occurrence. This magic comes in the form of glamour, which allows talented users to form practically any illusion they can imagine. Shades debuted to great acclaim and left readers eagerly awaiting its sequel. Glamour in Glass continues following the lives of beloved main characters Jane and Vincent, with a much deeper vein of drama and intrigue.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The performance really distracted from the story.
- By Maike on 09-05-14
- Glamour in Glass
- By: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
The performance really distracted from the story.
Reviewed: 09-05-14
I enjoyed listening to "Shades of Milk and Honey", so I went on and got "Glamour in Glass" as well. In terms of the story, the book is entertaining, the characters interesting. But I found the poor performance really distracting in this volume. The narrator's put-on British accent was already a bit hard to swallow in the first volume. "Glamour in Glass" is set in large part in Belgium, with short passages entirely in French, and long passages in fake French accent. The pronounciation of both was really, really poor to the point that it distracted from the story in a big way.
I thought I could ignore it, but now I think I'd have been better off reading the book, instead of listening to it.
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