Review from The Black Farm →
During the last 30 or so minutes, there is a big chunk of audio that is fully repeated.. meaning we hear it twice. It was a very annoying way to end the book – you hear the end once, then the story continues just for you to hear it all over again. Not leaving a..
Review from Forsaken →
It took me several months to get through this book. The protagonist is this extremely depressed and unhappy guy who finds fault in all the good in his life and is cruel to his dog and cold towards his family. Then he is surprised when they are distant back at him. The story is interesting..
I won’t be getting the sequel. While I enjoyed the book, its ending really ruined it for me.
Review from The Black Farm →
the concept is cool and the setting is rather intense at times, but it mostly reads like a reddit post. the violence and torture bits all feel forced and overblown. characters are all really weak. the narrator did a decent job with what they had, so there’s that. beats not having a book to listen..
Review from Forsaken →
I am used to King, Koontz, Tamnarive Due and a few others. I was attempting to “step out of my comfort zone and try something different…It didn’t work. The book was all over the place.. EVERYTIME I listened to it , I fell asleep.. It just couldn’t keep me engaged.. This is just MY take..
Review from The Least of Us →
I learned an incredible amount about the opioid epidemic, meth and fentanyl, that I didn’t know before, but also about neurology, dopamine, and most importantly, the human spirit. Beautiful writing. Quinones’s language is vibrant and heartpulling, his intellect powerful and his compassion deep. I would definitely listen to this book twice. But I’m now going..
Review from Forsaken →
I really wanted to enjoy this book, but it lost my attention repeatedly. I listened to several other novels while also trying to trudge through this one. The story did not grip me. Is that the author’s fault? The reader’s? Either way, I am glad it is now behind me. I didn’t hate it, and..
Review from The Black Farm →
It was common and obvious. The horror was more in the pedestrian style and the gratuitous violence. The voice actor was great. The story felt like it belonged in the adolescent section of the Barnes and Noble. I got through the Black Farm that was this book….
Review from Head Like a Hole →
That was the worst choice for a narrator! Puts you right to sleep! I really wanted to love this book but I couldn’t enjoy it at all.
Some of the body horror scenes were creepy, but overall this is an unrewarding book. Don’t be fooled by the blurbs – this is decidedly *not* cosmic horror. The narrator’s attempts at various foreign accents are the real horror here. Also, I don’t have the capacity to suspend disbelief enough to accept that radiation works..