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Ok Story. Whipered Narration

Revisado: 04-13-24

I found the story mostly interesting and was enlightened on several characters, but especially about John Hancock, so I endured the narration. But this audio-book could've been recorded in a library without the narrator receiving a single, "Shhh!" My mind began to drift and I couldn't help but wonder what would happen to the narrator in life if she ever found herself in a situation that required a yell? If she yelled, "fire" in a crowded theater would anyone try to leave? etc etc. I noticed the she has done some mental health titles, which probably works for her, she sounds like I would imagine a therapist might.

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Good Title

Revisado: 06-18-23

The title is the highlight of the audio book. Although some interesting tales in the book, the structure seemed scattered and the delivery was amateurish to my ears.

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First and Last Rachel Grant

Revisado: 04-09-23

I think I got this on the Daily Deal. I like action-adventure, bad-ass stories like The Gray Man series, but not romance. Turns out this is a hybrid of the two which I (happily) didn't know existed, but which plods along tolerably, but far from exceptionally until the very end at which time I'm expecting the final wrap-up, yet the story veers into a way too unnecessarily detailed sexual encounter that repeatedly and incongruously uses graphic words like, "cock" and "clit" like it's a movie trying to get an "R" rating in the last scene. Unbelievably, in the heavy breathing, just post-sex climate of this final scene, the two main characters of the book have a conversation revealing to each other that they would rather not know the gender of their soon to be born child, preferring the mystery and recognizing that the child may not be the same gender as assigned at birth. A ten hour audiobook torpedoed by 2 minutes of porn and 10 seconds of insanity.

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Amatuerish Story

Revisado: 09-05-21

I usually like Kevin Pierce and would give him a 5 star, but he mis-pronounced krav-maga in this audiobook over and over. Are there no editors/producers? I also generally like this genre, but this story is weak to the point of amateurish. The character development is weak. The 4.7 rating suckered me in, but I'll be avoiding Ryan Schow in the future.

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Tedious Narration.

Revisado: 07-12-21

Couple of things before I write what I thought. One, I usually have some background noise when I'm listening to audio books. Two, This narrator has performed dozens of audio-books, so my dislike seems to be in the minority. You should at least listen to the sample and judge for yourself.

The narrator voice is proper UK english, about which I'm neutral, but his delivery habitually dropped the last word before a comma and the last word of the sentence (almost every sentence) to a whisper or near whisper. He also whispered or near-whispered almost every quote from contemporarys' journals. So not only did I struggle to hear at least a couple of words per sentence, but I found the highly repetitive nature of this pacing off-putting. After awhile, the proper english pronunciations and the whispering almost merged into a single irritant and I wanted to say, "Grow some stones, man...TALK. We're not sipping tea in the library."

The book has plenty of interesting stories, but I thought it wandered a bit. While the book was talking about the plague in Britain, I skipped to the end. I just couldn't slog through any longer.

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Cockney Narration Slow-Paced.

Revisado: 01-20-21

When the narration goes cockney or whatever that is, you might want to go to 1.25x speed. It almost makes it sound like a normal speaking tempo.

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Good Story

Revisado: 07-30-20

Enjoyed this fill-in-the blanks and refresher on the Atlanta Olympic bombing and Richard Jewell. The narrator does a mostly good job, but the fake southern accents is distracting.

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No character worth pulling for.

Revisado: 03-02-17

Even the character you're supposed to pull for is flawed too deeply. Excellent narration...crappy story.

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A bit of a slip for Mark Greaney

Revisado: 12-27-15

I almost didn't buy this because of the inherently dishonest (although widely accepted practice) of putting a dead author's name on a book cover. However, I've listened to Mark Greaney's Gray Man books as well as his last "Clancy" book and really like his work. This book, in my opinion, is not up to par with his previous titles. Probably my last "Clancy."

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Short tells a good story.

Revisado: 10-06-15

I've never been a fan of Martin Short's characters; they always fell flat with me and this book didn't change that opinion, I must say. However, Short IS an excellent storyteller who has known tons funny people and he recounts many hilarious events and one-liners, often in the voice of the original speaker. Well worth a listen.

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