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Title: A Million Little Things

Author: Susan Mallery

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-17

Publisher: Harlequin Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 205 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

From the best-selling author of The Girls of Mischief Bay and The Friends We Keep comes a twisty tale of family dynamics that explores what can go terribly, hysterically wrong when the line between friendship and family blurs.

Zoe Saldivar is more than just single - she's alone. She recently broke up with her longtime boyfriend, she works from home, and her best friend, Jen, is so obsessed with her baby that she has practically abandoned their friendship. The day Zoe accidentally traps herself in her attic with her hungry-looking cat, she realizes that it's up to her to stop living in isolation.

Her seemingly empty life takes a sudden turn for the complicated - her first new friend is Jen's widowed mom, Pam. The only guy to give her butterflies in a very long time is Jen's brother. And meanwhile, Pam is being very deliberately seduced by Zoe's own smooth-as-tequila father. Pam's flustered, Jen's annoyed, and Zoe is beginning to think "alone" doesn't sound so bad after all.

Friendship isn't just one thing - it's a million little things, and no one writes them with more heart and humor than book club sensation Susan Mallery!

Members Reviews:

Well ... I finished it

You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

The narration was good, but the book itself was boring. I found myself skipping entire chapters because they were so repetitive. I finished it because it was Spring Break and I didn't have another book handy.

Third time not a charm

I really enjoyed listening to the first two books in this series. They were entertaining, non-taxing and left me wanting more. Not this one, the characters weren't believable and their characterization by the author was filled with redundancy. I will not be seeking the 4th book. It's obvious there isn't anything left in this tank

Not as good.

This being the 3rd series in the Mischief Bay series wasn't quite as good as the previous 2. This one was a little predictable and almost anticlimactic. I enjoy the series and hope they continue but this has been my least favorite. I did enjoy the adult scene in the book. It was graphic enough to make it adult but not so graphic it makes it erotic.

Good plot but the sex scenes are pretty graphic

Is there anything you would change about this book?

Sex scenes are too graphic. I had to skip over them because it felt pornographic to me.

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

Good ending. Everything tied together.

A little slow

I didn't get fully interested until half way into the book, but I do love Susan Mallory.

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Title: The Dark Flood Rises

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Dame Margaret Drabble

Narrator: Anna Bentinck

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 62 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England.

Amid the professional conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home-cooked dinners to her ex-husband, texts her son, who is grieving over the sudden death of his girlfriend, and drops in on her daughter, a quirky young woman who lives in a floodplain in the West Country.

This dark and glittering novel moves back and forth between an interconnected group of family and friends in England and a seemingly idyllic expat community in the Canary Islands, where we also observe the flow of immigrants from an increasingly war-torn Middle East.

Critic Reviews:

"This masterly novel by the great English author Margaret Drabble is beautifully served by Anna Bentinck's low-key and sensitive performance, which permits the book's language and meaning to shine.... When needed, Bentinck gives unique voices to different characters, but it's mostly her rhythm, pacing, and audible love of the book that make her performance glow." (

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Members Reviews:

Like a piano piece that evokes sentiments

I'm drawn to books with older protagonists lately, so when I saw this, I had to listen. While it is all about death and dying, it is not at all depressing. Poignant at times, but not gloomy. There were a lot of characters to keep track of, and I think listening makes that harder, but that didn't really matter so much. The main character of the book was really death and the many ways in which people think about it, fear it, welcome it, prepare for it, etc. I'd never heard of Margaret Drabble before. I'll be checking out more of her books. Narrator was excellent!

Life Observed By An Exceptional Writer

I love Margaret Drabble's writing and looked forward to the release of this latest title. Then unfortunately I read a terrible review of the book in the Sunday New York Times. The review sounded like an eighth grade book report riddled with plot spoilers and lists of what happens in the form of "and then"....followed by many more "and thens". You know the stuff--simply written I think to prove the reviewer had read the book. It all sounded so dreadful and depressing that I crossed the title off my "to be read" book list thinking I'd skip it. When it was released here on audible I wavered and decided to ignore the review and take the plunge. Gosh I'm really glad that I did.

This book is so thought provoking, so beautifully written, so expansive that I find it difficult to decide just where to start with this review. Filled with the contradictions, the conflicts and the complexity of everyday life the book presents an incredibly wide angled view. Using a web of connected characters Drabble teases apart the thorny topics of life lived, youth, aging and death. She uses the book to look at choices, decisions and random chance--really the vagaries of life. The improbability of how each life changes, develops over time and intertwines with others are key themes. In addition, hard life lessons and concepts of responsibility for ourselves and others are explored.

Just in case this all sounds too heavy handed be aware the book is also filled with beauty, art, color, friendship and family.

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Title: Dirty Money

Author: Ashley & JaQuavis

Narrator: iiKane

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-17

Publisher: Buck 50 Productions

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 302 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

After her world is brutally destroyed, Anari becomes the epitome of a good-girl-turned-bad. Consumed with a desire for revenge, she and her best friend, Monica, enter a life of drugs, fast money, and betrayal - adopting the very lifestyle that pushed them into the game in the first place. Hiding their true identities, they quickly rise to the top of New Jersey's dope game. Using everyone who crosses their paths, nothing - not betrayal or addiction - will stop them from dispensing their street justice.

Members Reviews:

OMG!!!!! Love Ashley & JaQuavis

Sitting on the edge of my seat! Need Dirty Money 2 ASAP!!! Hurry Please. T

it's ok

ok story. it was just one thing after the other. reader is horrible...omg she rushes as she reads which rushes the story

so freaking gooooood!!!!!

I love this book! so freaking gooooood!!!!! this is a must read!

yall did da dam thang!

This sound too familiar

This book sound like a previous book by the authors!! For it to be recently published it just sounds so fam

Great Read

This book kept my attention from beginning to end. I can wait to order the next book in this series.

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Title: Dark Heart

Subtitle: Jed Walker Series, Book 4

Author: James Phelan

Narrator: Adrian Mulraney

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-22-16

Publisher: Hachette Australia Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 27 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

From the rubble of Damascus to the corridors of Washington, a frightening new conspiracy of terror emerges.

In war-torn Syria, a massacre survivor is pulled from beneath a pile of bodies. She is given one instruction: 'find Jed Walker'. Walker is ex-CIA - a man who thought he was long out of the game. Discovering a terror outfit is running people-smuggling from the Middle East and into the United States, he is drawn back in to fight their evil trade. At first Walker thinks these human traffickers are driven purely by profit and greed. But it is much worse than that - and it has ties to the highest levels of power.

As the body count rises and deadly enemies stalk from the shadows, Walker uncovers the shocking truth behind an operation intended to bring America to its knees. As he attempts to make things right, Jed Walker will learn the true cost of life - and pay a devastating price.

James Phelan is the best-selling and award-winning author of 28 novels and one work of nonfiction. From his teens he wanted to be a novelist but first tried his hand at a real job, studying and working in architecture before turning to English literature, spending five years at a newspaper and obtaining an MA and a PhD in literature. For Hachette Australia, James has written five titles in the Lachlan Fox thriller series and the Alone trilogy of young adult postapocalyptic novels.

The ex-CIA character of Jed Walker was first introduced in The Spy, which was followed by The Hunted, Kill Switch and Dark Heart. James has also written a 14-book adventure series for Scholastic, titled The Last Thirteen. He has been a full-time novelist since the age of 25 and spends his time writing thrilling stories and travelling the world to talk about them.

To find out more about James and his books, visit www.jamesphelan.com. Follow and interact with James: www.facebook.com/realjamesphelan, www.twitter.com/realjamesphelan, www.instagram.com/realjamesphelan, www.whosay.com/jamesphelan.

Critic Reviews:

"A terse, tense brand of hard-boiled action suspense...addictive." (

Members Reviews:

Great series!

You will be hooked! Make sure you read them in order! Very well written and takes you on a great adventure!

Wow! Another cracker of a thriller!

Wow! Another cracker of a thriller from Aussie author James Phelan!

Jed Walker had been recuperating in hospital after the last operation (Kill Switch) and when Eve came to take him home, Jed was looking forward to nothing more than rest and recovery. That was until a desperate young woman convinced him he was going to be attacked in a short time â someone was after him and they wanted him dead.

The atrocities in Syria, the global terrorism, a people smuggling business from the Middle East into the US â Jed was right in the middle of it in short order. He had no idea who he could trust but he also knew the clock was ticking and the race was on. The bodies were mounting. But was Jed one step ahead of the bad guys? He knew he had to win â the worldâs safety counted on itâ

Dark Heart by Aussie author James Phelan is the 4th in the Jed Walker series and I loved it! I devoured it in a matter of hours; the pace is relentless, the tension gripping! Action packed suspense ripples through the pages â this author knows how to write thrillers! Highly recommended.

An entrancing read!

I absolutely LOVE this book! The characters are so alive here.

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Title: The Power

Author: Naomi Alderman

Narrator: Adjoa Andoh, Naomi Alderman, Thomas Judd, Emma Fenney, Phil Nightingale

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 29 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

2017 Winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction

'She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across his chest and up around his throat. She'd put her hand on his heart and stopped him dead.'

Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death.

With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman's extraordinary, visceral novel are utterly transformed, and we look at the world in an entirely new light. What if the power to hurt were in women's hands?

Critic Reviews:

"Electrifying! Shocking! Will knock your socks off! Then you'll think twice, about everything." (Margaret Atwood)

"The Power is a subtly funny, lyrical and utterly subversive vision of an impossible future. As all the best visionaries do, Alderman shines a penetrating and yet merciful light on to our present and the so many cruelties in which we may be complicit." (A. L. Kennedy)

"Alderman is a fluent and powerful writer." (Sunday Times)

Members Reviews:

Entertaining story, nice structure, perfect performance

Story flows easily and in an addictive way despite a series of characters (and perspectives) that never meet. Performance is perfect. The different characters come to life, adding richness to the story

Reeling from the power of this book.

I may become a bit evangelical in my wish to share this book... It is astonishingly good. This book makes me feel invincible. (Hope I remember soon that I don't, in fact, have The Power so I'm not!)

Can't say too much in case of spoilers, but it's so clever and thought-provoking and engaging, it's hard to 'put down'. It is blunt in places - the reversal of women using rape as an instrument of war, for example - but some bits so subtle it's almost painful to realise how immune we are to incipient sexism until we hear it reversed in this way. The conversation between the two authors at the opening and closing of the book is a superb illustration, and the final line just says it all.

Honourable mention should go to the narrator who is *phenomenal*. Great dramatic performance AND she's very good at the many different international and regional accents, which is often such an irritation.

Can't praise it highly (or articulately) enough.

Brilliant!

This is a must read for anyone who cares about relationships, human rights and everything in between. What starts off as a fantastic twist of fate which finally sets women on the path to the potential for proper equality gently and systematically turns the tables and shows how the gaining of power can corrupt. A morality tale for the 21st century, highlighting where inequality is still riff in the world and pondering whether if women ruled the world it would be any better? It's also an incredibly brilliant read!

a clever and provocative narrative

This was an absolute find. Thought-provoking and compelling, I could have listened to this in one sitting.

Awesome, in the true sense of the word

Would you listen to The Power again? Why?

Yes.

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Title: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Author: Kim Edwards

Narrator: Ilyana Kadushin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-18-16

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 64 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A New York Times best seller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love.

Kim Edwards' stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964 in Lexington, Kentucky, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. Instead she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century - in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that winter night long ago.

A family drama, The Memory Keeper's Daughter explores every mother's silent fear: What would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? It is also an astonishing tale of love and how the mysterious ties that hold a family together help us survive the heartache that occurs when long-buried secrets are finally uncovered.

Members Reviews:

well written.

This book is extremely well written. The character development is strong. Personally, I just prefer a little more action.

Interesting read/ Predictable ending

I bought this because of my interest in literature that includes characters with disabilities as part of the story. While that was not the primary focus of the book, it did play a pivotal causal role. The disillusion of the fairy dust period in many relationships is interesting in a psychological way. I found myself almost liking, and certainly having some sympathy for our misguided male lead. I wanted to shake him by the shoulders and tell him to take responsibility for his behavior and the pain he had cause others. He never did. The last third was a little bit anticlimactic. I was sure that there was going to be a twist, or a turn in a direction beyond what would just be a natural conclusion...a chance meeting, a glimpse across a distant room. Nope, there was not. I was drawn into the story and looked forward to my next opportunity to listen, it just fell flat in the end.

Really enjoyed it! Highly engaging characters.

A well written story, engaging and well told. The characters, the struggles and the time come alive!

A favorite

This is one of my favorite books of all time. Read it several years ago and bought it on audible recently and it was even better this time around. A love/hate for the characters but you can't image leaving their lives. Such a unique storyline and very well written.

The reader of this Audible did a GREAT job!

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Title: The Wangs vs. the World

Author: Jade Chang

Narrator: Nancy Wu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-16

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 301 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent - and about the road trip they take across America that binds them back together.

Charles Wang is mad at America. A brash, lovable immigrant businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, he's just been ruined by the financial crisis. Now all Charles wants is to get his kids safely stowed away so that he can go to China and attempt to reclaim his family's ancestral lands - and his pride.

Charles pulls Andrew, his aspiring comedian son, and Grace, his style-obsessed daughter, out of schools he can no longer afford. Together with their stepmother, Barbra, they embark on a cross-country road trip from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the upstate New York hideout of the eldest daughter, disgraced art world it-girl Saina. But with his son waylaid by a temptress in New Orleans, his wife ready to defect for a set of 1,000-thread-count sheets, and an epic smash-up in North Carolina, Charles may have to choose between the old world and the new, between keeping his family intact and finally fulfilling his dream of starting anew in China.

Outrageously funny and full of charm, The Wangs vs. the World is an entirely fresh look at what it means to belong in America - and how going from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings one family together in a way money never could.

Members Reviews:

Fun at first, but succumbs to fatal whininess

Would you try another book from Jade Chang and/or Nancy Wu?

I'd try another book from Jade Chang, even if it contains untranslated Chinese. Not sure I can listen to any more of Nancy Wu's voice, though. When the conversations got whiny, she was far too good at conveying that, to the point I just had to turn it off.

What was most disappointing about Jade Changs story?

One originally likable character suddenly revealed herself to be spoiled and whiny in a way that pulled the rug out from under me.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Nancy Wu?

Perhaps if the narrator could somehow have delivered the whiny dialogue without such an unbearably grating, whiny tone, I might have survived, but she didn't, and I couldn't.

You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

The book was entertaining and thought provoking for much of the way. I regret not being able to get through the narrative arc.

A Spin On the Classic All-American Road Trip Story

You know its serious when you re-up your lapsed audiobook subscription for just one book. It was so worth it for The Wangs vs the World by Jade Chang, the story of a wealthy immigrant family that loses their fortune in the financial crisis and regroups on a (hilarious) road trip across America.

What I love most about this audiobook, besides its spin on the classic All-American road trip story, is its delicate balance between comedy and compassion. I LOVE the entire Wang family theres the embarrassing dad, the cold stepmother, the art world ingenue, the college bro, the millennial fashion blogger, and the ironic hipster farmer. Jade Chang playfully teases each character about their individual personality quirks while ultimately digging into the humanity beneath, making you grow to love each one.

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Title: It

Author: Stephen King

Narrator: Steven Weber

Format: Unabridged

Length: 44 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-20-16

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 123 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine, was just their hometown: familiar, well ordered for the most part. A good place to live. It was the children who saw - and felt - what made Derry so horribly different.

In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT reached up, seizing, tearing, killing....

The adults, knowing better, knew nothing. Time passed, and the children grew up, moved away. The horror of IT was deep buried, wrapped in forgetfulness. Until they were called back, once more to confront IT as IT stirred and coiled in the sullen depths of their memories, reaching up again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality.

Members Reviews:

Eerie reminder

So this book made me think back to my childhood and hit the nail on the head on how when we are children the world seems so different. Funny how the older we get the less durable and because of that we take less risks. I loved how the past and present play out at the same time and how children had to become grown up before their time to fight a seemingly unstoppable evil!

Terrifyingly Wonderful

Incredibly absorbing and intricate story with impeccable vocal performance. Enjoyed every second of it, a true Stephen King classic come alive with Webers many voices.

You'll float too

Great voices and reading.

I enjoyed this a lot, and down here you'll enjoy it too.

Could of done with an editor

Once you listen to this story, you feel that there was much that could of been cut out to get the story moving. Some things are just fillers like characters and descriptions of action. I think the sex scenes were not needed and there were opportunities missed where the book could of been more heavily layered and scarier. I am sure if Stephen King was to write this book again he would make it even better. Will be interesting to see how the new film version works with this book. Steven Weber is excellent with the narration. Worth listening to even before tucking into bed.

Excellent performance

I have read this book many years ago and thought it was quite good. This time around I thought it was a bit too long.

Steven Weber's performance was however excellent. He gave life to the book and I will definitely look for other books that he narrated

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Title: Roar

Author: Nicole Trope

Narrator: Susan Strafford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-19-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 102 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A short story for fans of Jodi Picoult and Anita Shreve. Step into the fragile domestic world of Roar and discover the unforgettable voice of Nicole Trope, best-selling author of The Secrets in Silence, Three Hours Late and The Boy Under the Table.

The baby sleeps peacefully, filled with milk and contentment. The man on the bed breathes his way into the darkness, filled with rage. Was there ever really a choice?

From the queen of searing family drama and suspense comes a short story about the fierce bonds between mother and child, the things we sacrifice to protect the ones we love and the desperate choices we make when there's nowhere left to run.

Members Reviews:

Hard to follow, but very captivating.

I loved being invited into this poor abused woman's world. I found the story a bit hard to follow, but listening to it twice was a treat.

suprising!!!

This went decidedly left when I thought it woyld go right. Lol. Don't push people cause you never know just how close to the edge they may be....

Describes desperate murder

This was a really sad and cowardly way to get out of this situation. This tells a story of a woman who married a man seeking self worth. And didn't have the means or the courage to get out and away when she really needed to. What is even sadder is that so many parents stop parenting and fail to tell their married children, especially their daughters, that they still have so much potential. Our children should be independent and strong before they ever marry a loving equal to share an amazing life with. Also, that older couple had a surprise child and didn't have anything saved up to give her or a life insurance in her name. Yes, I'm angry at this story for showing such depth of desperation, yet thankful to the author for highlighting these particular problems.

Strength

True love of a mother and strength to move on. the only choice she could make.

Wow!

What does Susan Strafford bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

Her narration adds to the tension of the story. Her well-paced narration ups the suspense.

Who was the most memorable character of Roar and why?

The mother

Any additional comments?

Wow! This very short audio book was crammed with attention grabbing detail and tension. The story set my nerves on end, and the narration ramped that up several notches in it's delivery. It was perfect in almost every way.

My one question concerns the use of insulin. The protagonist goes to her mother's every day to inject her with insulin, so her mother won't have to do it herself. There's no mention of blood testing. I wonder whether it's a common practice to do a once a day insulin injection like that? Isn't it supposed to be dosed based on blood glucose levels, amount of food eaten, and activity level? Other than that one small thing, I think this was a great book and would recommend it to those who love mystery, thriller, and suspense books.

Highly recommended!

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Title: Pigs in Heaven

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Barbara Kingsolver

Narrator: C. J. Critt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-12-16

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 105 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Picking up where her modern classic The Bean Trees left off, Barbara Kingsolver's best-selling Pigs in Heaven continues the tale of Turtle and Taylor Greer, a Native American girl and her adoptive mother who have settled in Tucson, Arizona, as they both try to overcome their difficult pasts.

Taking place three years after The Bean Trees, Taylor is now dating a musician named Jax and has officially adopted Turtle. But when a lawyer for the Cherokee Nation begins to investigate the adoption, their new life together begins to crumble.

Depicting the clash between fierce family love and tribal law, poverty and means, abandonment and belonging, Pigs in Heaven is a morally wrenching, gently humorous work of fiction that speaks equally to the head and to the heart.

Members Reviews:

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A story I wish would never end

I am a huge fan of Barbara Kingsolver's work. As a social worker and a biologist, I find that her descriptions of the natural world inspire a mindful peace and her treatment of individual characters and the broader human condition both challenging and insightful.

I rarely write reviews. After finishing this two part series, I find myself feeling connected to these characters and sincerely wishing to know more about their story. Some of the broader themes explored in the series include immigration, racism and white privilege, Native Americans, Foster care and adoption--topics with which we continue to struggle.

This book is interesting and emotional. I will listen to it again and again.

What happen...

I loved Prodigal Summer ... it was a beautiful book beautifully narrated. I am having trouble listening to Pigs in Heaven because of the narrator. The narration is flat and uninteresting.

awesome

a heartwarming story about a mother's love and get commitment to be a great mother