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Breaking Bailey
- By: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 53
Bailey welcomes a fresh start at the prestigious boarding school, Prescott Academy, far away from the painful memories of her mother's death and the unendurable happiness of her father and his new wife. She expects rigorous coursework and long hours of studying - what she doesn't expect is to be inducted into the Science Club, a group of wealthy and intelligent students who run a business cooking up drugs in their spare time. Suddenly, Bailey has everything she's ever wanted, including a sweet and handsome boyfriend named Warren, the brainy lead chemist in the Club.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too cliché and is very unrealistic
- By Kim on 01-25-21
- Breaking Bailey
- By: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
Too cliché and is very unrealistic
Reviewed: 01-25-21
Although this book is supposed to be realistic fiction it absolutely is not. As someone who goes to a boarding prep school this book gives boarding schools a bad rap and it says so much stuff that is so not true. They decide to go with the very basic toxic boyfriend I can’t leave him vibe that is overdone and they make it look like all of the people who go to that school are damaged. This gives everything a bad rep at boarding school and it really annoys me with some of the things they say. There is no way there would be an empty science building there’s no way you could go and borrow someone else’s car there is no way you could do 90% of the stuff in this book as a boarding school student and I would like that to be known.
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The Goldfinch
- By: Donna Tartt
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 32 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41,682
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37,575
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37,530
The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity. It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Boy, am I in the minority on this one.
- By Bon Ami on 11-04-13
- The Goldfinch
- By: Donna Tartt
- Narrated by: David Pittu
What a downer.
Reviewed: 02-17-14
What disappointed you about The Goldfinch?
While the book was well written, I hated the story. Drugs, alcohol abuse, child abuse, violence, lying, fraud - enough already! I held on until the very end hoping I would understand and agree with the hype. Unfortunately, I wasted many hours.
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