Unabridged Audiobook
As a never-married man involved in online dating, I'm not in this book's target audience. My first reaction to much of the advice was, "Duh, everyone knows that." Except that, of course, that not everyone does. The book is online dating 101, an introduction at a very basic level. That's because it's aimed at women who are completely new to this experience. If you're in the author's situation -- dating again after years of marriage ends in divorce -- this book will give you, in five hours, a valuable crash course, presenting the information more efficiently than if you went out and hunted it up for yourself. (It's aimed primarily at women but men in that situation would benefit some, too.) Along with this information, there's a certain amount of restoring-your-self-esteem stuff. I found a few of those passages a bit treacly, but, again, I'm not recovering from a divorce or the end of a long relationship. Some listeners will benefit from that advice. Even if your self-esteem is fine, you won't find the cheerleading more than a minor distraction. Some author-narrated books make me long for a professional reader. With this one, however, it was a definite plus. Kerri Sackville tells her own story. Of course she's reading from a text, but she makes it sound like her end of a conversation.
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