suze_1624's review
3.0
Not sure what my thoughts are really after listening to this one.
I feel like it is a story that I should have lapped up but I didn't. Not sure if that is because it was an audiobook and I'm more of a visual person or that because I don't have time to actually sit and listen it didn't really sink in (I listened mostly in the car but even so, you still have to pay attention to the road!)
Whilst I admired the narrator coping with all the voices, I find when reading that all voices (male, female, young, old) have the same voice but here obviously not and whilst I'm sure any attempt of mine to do a Texas accent would be bad, I thought the english accents he attempted were just so off. It didn't help that I also thought the story portrayed the english characters as numptees.
I preferred the 2011 storyline more than the earlier more because Pres didn't seem such as self important little so and so by then. Didn't warm to his earlier character at all, he didn't want to listen to Konrad's pov at all. But then Konrad dcome across to me as not that into Pres - always looking for a way out.
The issue of early sex that bothers some didn't bother me, fitted in with raging hormones and the story.
There is obviously a whole chunk of their actual stories that go past very quickly and I wasn't certain about Konrad's disappearance - yes it happened but just couldn't assimilate it. Seeing it from his pov may have helped.
After taking long times over Pres's accident and then their early years together, the ending seemed quite quick.
Going to go for 3* but for me probably a 2.5/2.75*
I feel like it is a story that I should have lapped up but I didn't. Not sure if that is because it was an audiobook and I'm more of a visual person or that because I don't have time to actually sit and listen it didn't really sink in (I listened mostly in the car but even so, you still have to pay attention to the road!)
Whilst I admired the narrator coping with all the voices, I find when reading that all voices (male, female, young, old) have the same voice but here obviously not and whilst I'm sure any attempt of mine to do a Texas accent would be bad, I thought the english accents he attempted were just so off. It didn't help that I also thought the story portrayed the english characters as numptees.
I preferred the 2011 storyline more than the earlier more because Pres didn't seem such as self important little so and so by then. Didn't warm to his earlier character at all, he didn't want to listen to Konrad's pov at all. But then Konrad dcome across to me as not that into Pres - always looking for a way out.
The issue of early sex that bothers some didn't bother me, fitted in with raging hormones and the story.
There is obviously a whole chunk of their actual stories that go past very quickly and I wasn't certain about Konrad's disappearance - yes it happened but just couldn't assimilate it. Seeing it from his pov may have helped.
After taking long times over Pres's accident and then their early years together, the ending seemed quite quick.
Going to go for 3* but for me probably a 2.5/2.75*
shazov's review
5.0
I'm lost for words. Honestly what can I say about this book? Nothing will come close to describing what I feel at the moment.
Mickie B. Ashling is, in my opinion, a master of words. She manages to pull me into her stories, into lives and worlds outside of my experience, and make me feel at home. Feel as if I belong there, as if I know the characters and the surroundings they live in.
Her characters come to life without fail. They all have their parts to play and are all important to the whole. They are not perfect, no, they are flawed as they would be in real life. This is one of the things I love about these characters; they feel as if I could ask them to meet me for coffee (or I suppose tea in this case).
The story settings are again vividly described. And the sex scenes... wow! Hot, hot, hot!
I wasn't ready for it to finish where it did. Lucky for me (and in reality for the author, as I probably would have hounded her to write more lol) the next one is out all ready. Now I just have to find time to read it.
Mickie B. Ashling is, in my opinion, a master of words. She manages to pull me into her stories, into lives and worlds outside of my experience, and make me feel at home. Feel as if I belong there, as if I know the characters and the surroundings they live in.
Her characters come to life without fail. They all have their parts to play and are all important to the whole. They are not perfect, no, they are flawed as they would be in real life. This is one of the things I love about these characters; they feel as if I could ask them to meet me for coffee (or I suppose tea in this case).
The story settings are again vividly described. And the sex scenes... wow! Hot, hot, hot!
I wasn't ready for it to finish where it did. Lucky for me (and in reality for the author, as I probably would have hounded her to write more lol) the next one is out all ready. Now I just have to find time to read it.
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