Unabridged Audiobook
This book had the pieces of a good story, but the pacing worked against it from start to finish. Long stretches of the novel are clunky and overwritten. Scenes that needed a paragraph got several pages, and descriptions and conversations kept circling the same point after it had already landed. Those were the parts that added the least to the story, so reading them felt like a chore rather than a way into the characters or their world. After all that time spent in the slow sections, the ending is rushed. The last few chapters tie up the major threads so fast that the payoff feels unearned. Conflicts that took hundreds of pages to build are resolved in a handful of pages, and I finished the book feeling that the author ran out of room, or patience, just as the story reached what mattered.
Entertaining!
Story was sweet. Narration sub par. No Irish accent was a miss.
Good read but the narrator is sticky sweet, high pitched and grating. The voice doesn’t even match the character descriptions.
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