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I just cannot get through it.

Reviewed: 03-13-25

I have tried three times now to read this book because I want to love it. I would settle for liking it. I don’t know if all the high marks are from people who have not read all of Kate’s other books yet so they cannot compare, but sheesh, i am worn out from just trying again. Every one of Kate’s other books are marked as favorites… and then there’s this. I feel bad even leaving a review that’s honest to how i feel. Fourth times the charm?

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Julie and Robin are proud of you.

Reviewed: 03-13-25

You write as if it is in your bloodline, and after hearing you read some of your cousin’s writings, it is. From the start, my interest was only with Tom, Robin, and Julie, the precious life-filled victims. I held no hope in finding anything redeeming in the violent criminals, and was not disappointed when there was none. You make your family proud. PS: American Dirt is still a favorite book in my top 5 out of the thousand I’ve read. Thank you Jeanine

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Like listening to Morgan Freeman narrate a documentary then part two changes to Fran Drescher reading the same characters.

Reviewed: 01-22-25

Like listening to Morgan Freeman narrate a documentary then part two changes to Fran Drescher reading the same characters.
I am 28 chapters in and i just cannot with the complete disconnect of the narrator from book one. I keep trying and trying, but the difference in the same characters is so vast I just don’t even care about the mystery part of it. There is zero feeling in the narrator’s voice.

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Can you get free books for leaving a review?

Reviewed: 07-01-24

According to this books reviews you must be able to because i feel like i just threw some money in a fire pit. Fair warning, i have never written such a poor review and I apologize to the author for my personal truth, but people should not spend hard earned money on this book, certainly don’t waste a credit. Accents and voices were terrible, plot line was juvenile, and other than it being about an adulterous murder, it was a children’s book. Hallmark stories are NC17 compared to this remedial story.

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One hour of a necessary listen, don’t use a credit!

Reviewed: 06-17-24

Offends no one in their beliefs, gives insight to the best that we can hope for, and let’s us see four viewpoints in a matter of moments done so well that you will imprint this book within your own being.

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Across the board, less than mediocre.

Reviewed: 06-14-24

This could’ve been somewhat interesting if they had written it as historical fiction, versus someone talking about a real person that every word written is a struggle to bring her to life in the story. And the narrator is one of my favorites, but I feel with this book her talent couldn’t shine, because the book is just muddy.

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Best free with plus catalog book ever!

Reviewed: 06-04-24

I sent this book to all of my girlfriends. Unless you are anti-woman, you will totally relate to, and relish the main 3 character women and their actions.

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This is evangelical storytelling

Reviewed: 04-19-24

The first half sucks you in, the second half is 100% evangelical preaching to the point of a delusional crescendo that leaves you shaking your head as a character says to Corrie, "I am glad I was imprisoned in this concentration camp because it is here in found the savior Jesus." And that is beyond the pale, completely disrespectful to the millions slaughtered, braggadocio of Corrie the evangelical preacher, and as well, a sign of her mental decline because that "luck" of being imprisoned and tortured becomes the entire theme of the entire second half. Frankly, i am disgusted with this disgraceful book that preys on the easily manipulated mind.

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Should be listed as HORROR.

Reviewed: 03-17-24

Great writing, great performance, horrifyingly horrific! This is not a thriller or mystery, or mystery thriller, it is a horror that made me gasp at one point and i found myself skipping the chapters that followed the torturers glee of female various methods of mutilation.

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Compassion for a Nazi Industrial Slaver

Reviewed: 01-10-24

Well written, well told, not deep but a clever story, and unfortunately the characters are likable enough, for better or worse, that you find yourself championing a war criminal, a Nazi supporter. Even if her beauty, ignorance, or rather a blind eye, and sometimes compassion suck the reader in to create her as a heroine, nonetheless, she is former lover of an ss officer, and heiress to a Nazi work camp at an ironworks factory that she ran during wartime, and she was the one who escorted them from cattle cars, she claimed ignorance to the true happenings. The role of the British Officer whose job it was to hunt her as a war criminal, was written so well, your mind makes him the enemy. A book supporting Germany during war time may be a good read, but it doesn't mean it should ever have been written from this perspective. There's no heroine here. I am annoyed at myself for liking this book, and allowing its storytelling to suck me in to a place where a caring thought is given towards a death machine.

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