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Titel: Das Mädchen

Autor:: Stephen King

Erzähler: Joachim Kerzel, Franziska Pigulla

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 7 hrs and 37 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-16-13

Herausgeber: Lübbe Audio

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 2 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Die neunjährige Trisha unternimmt mit ihrem Bruder und ihrer Mutter eine Wanderung. Sie verlässt kurz den Weg - und verläuft sich im Wald. Hunger und Durst, Schwärme von Mücken, Einsamkeit und Dunkelheit sind nicht ihre einzigen Begleiter...

©2007 Lübbe Audio Verlagsgruppe Lübbe GmbH & Co. KG Bergisch Gladbach (P)2007 Lübbe Audio Verlagsgruppe Lübbe GmbH & Co. KG Bergisch Gladbach

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Title: The Slow Air of Ewan Macpherson

Author: Thomas Fox Averill

Narrator: Tristan Morris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-08-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Though it's not quite the motherland, Glasglow, Kansas, makes a fine home for Scotsman Rob MacPherson and his son Ewan. As the elder MacPherson blows up whiskey stills in his attempts to make a single-malt Scotch, Ewan falls in love - at twelve years of age - with Shirley Porter.

There's no turning back for Ewan. From that moment on, his heart has set its course. Through adolescence and into adulthood, through becoming a high school teacher, bagpipe instructor, loyal son, and keeper of all Scottish traditions, Ewan has found his one true passion - much like his father's obsession with single malt Scotch. A passion that - through trial and error - will teach him that love is an acquired taste.

Members Reviews:

Scotch, Scots, and Self-discovery

Thomas Fox Averill continues his tradition of "coming of age" stories with a novel that explores the middle years of Ewan MacPherson. Averill's first novel, SECRETS OF THE TSIL CAFE, took Weston Hingler from toddlerhood to young manhood. THE SLOW AIR OF EWAN MACPHERSON takes more interest in Ewan's manhood and development in his adult life. Ewan's personal odyssey is rich in the cultures of Kansas and Scotland, and both are presented ideally and realistically. Although SLOW AIR is not a social commentary, the issue of racial prejudice is faced squarely in the novel, with excellent cross-cultural support from Robert Burns, whose "A man's a man for a' that" plays a big role in defusing a racial incident.

Readers will be fascinated with the veritable tasting notes of single malt scotches, the detailed explanations of bagpiping, and the celebrations of Scottish culture in this novel. Averill's uses of the poetry of Robert Burn to introduce almost every chapter. But underlying the cultural context is the compelling story of a man learning what his heart desires and what his desires require.

This is a powerful second novel by Kansas' leading contemporary novelist. It's a must read for Scots and for egalitarians of every culture.

A pleasure to read

"Slow Air" is more than just the story of Ewan MacPherson; it is about the passions, struggles, and conflicts he and his father, his true love, and has friends face through most of Ewan's lifetime. So it is partly a love story, but without the sentimentality that ruins many novels. Averill holds no punches in telling this story.

The story takes interesting, authentic turns. There are beautiful metaphors with all things caught between Scottish and Kansan life, like Ewan's life is caught between. The characters effortlessly breathe within the pages--no cardboard people here.

The story reveals life's contradictions, where humor and tragedy meet and people long for what they can not have. It was a pleasure to read "Slow Air." I am thankful Mr. Averill gave us this story of love, longing, and the paths that make a life.

I highly recommend this book.

Definitely Slow

The Slow Air of Ewan Macpherson might've been a better book if the author had an ear for dialog...but he does not. The characters in this book talk to each other in the most oblique manner I have probably ever encountered in a work of fiction. I imagined them never quite meeting each other's eyes, talking to spots several feet to the left or above other people's heads, etc.

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Title: In the Tunnel

Author: Takamichi Okubo

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-11-13

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Haruki is traveling to the vast plains of Hokkaido, Japan, on a lone bus about to enter a three-kilometer-long tunnel. He is grieving for the loss of his wife when the tunnel collapses and traps the bus inside. In the darkness that follows, he manages to fumble out of the bus with the only other survivor, an astute and gentle woman who reminds him of his late wife. Without any light to guide them and with only each other to depend on, they try to escape the stifling darkness and along the way find themselves confronted by their pasts and given their last chance at intimacy, and ultimately, absolution.

A realist story that plays with surreal elements, the tale poses a simple question: what is the meaning of hope?

Members Reviews:

A Valiant Effort

There are many elements in this story which show promise, but the author isn't quite there yet. I suspect that many folks will immediately latch on to some of the Murakamian similarities- and between the rhythm and the male/female dynamics present in the story, there are quite a few- but regardless of the influence present here, it actually reminds me more of an Isaka Kotaro mystery novel. The prose is sharp and clear, the plot is compelling, and the characters are fully-fleshed, but much of the actual content either lacks subtlety is simply a bit too melodramatic or heavy-handed. This is a very readable piece, and was enjoyable (hence the three stars), but I suspect I would be more interested in the writing of Mr. Okubo a few years down the line, when both his vision and voice have matured into something of their own.

I will say, though, that I will likely remember the author's name. Which is not a bad result for a first publication.

An experience that will stay with you

What a deceptively simple little work.

A man is on a bus. The bus goes into a tunnel.

It happens every day, but what do we make of it? Takamichi Okubo, in "In the Tunnel," has made something very fine indeed.

Early on, we have this sentence: "His life is a tunnel now, lightless till the end."

The thing is, that's the way life is for all of us. None of us knows what's coming, what the next ten seconds will bring, let alone the years that stretch ahead -- if indeed they do.

But we think we know. We think we know because we can see, and as long as we can see we can make assumptions and build plans around them.

Okubo tells the tale of Haruki, a man in despair, a lost soul, dreading the darkness -- and what Haruki finds when he plunges into that tunnel, when he enters the unknown.

The writing is simple and straightforward, the story clear, the darkness palpable. Most of the story happens in the present tense, because that is how we live. Life happens now. Occasionally we think about the past. The events of today call up memories of the past -- memories of joy, of regret, of hope, of infinite sadness, of love. And these are here, too.

Haruki meets a woman in the tunnel, in the darkness. His story changes, develops, opens.

I won't say what happens, but it will happen more than once, because this is a story that you will think about, that you will recall, that you will savor. Enjoy it.

Nice Heart Warming Short Story

Two people are trapped in absolute darkness after their bus meets an accident midway in a long tunnel. One of them is on the verge of committing suicide, the other works as a councellor for a suicide prevention hotline.

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Title: Going Away Shoes

Subtitle: Stories

Author: Jill McCorkle

Narrator: Claire Slemmer, Allison McLemore, Elizabeth Evans, Gabra Zackman, Margaret Daly, Holly Fielding, Lauren Fortgang

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The foibles of the people in Jill McCorkles world are so familiar that we want nothing so much as to watch them walk into - and then get out of - life's inevitable traps. Here, in her first collection in eight years, McCorkle collects 11 brand-new stories bristling with her characteristic combination of wit and weight. In honeymoon shoes, mud-covered hunting boots, or glass slippers, all of the women in these stories march to a place of new awareness, in one way or another, transforming their lives. They make mistakes, but they dont waste time hiding behind them. They move on. They are strong. And theyre funny, even when they are sad.These stories are the work of a great storyteller who knows exactly how - and why - to pair pain with laughter.

Members Reviews:

Going Away Shoes

nicely written, interesting, funny, moving-a good quick read that you wish wasn't at the end when you get there. Thanks

meh

I was unfortunately less impressed with this book than I wanted to be. Maybe it was the mood I was in, but everyone in it left me feeling rather depressed. I hope it leaves you feeling better.

Fantastic Short Stories for Women

Each story is one that every woman can relate to. I loved every one!

She Knows Her Environment and Her People

Going Away Shoes. This paperback collection of short stories, published in 2010 by North Carolina writer Jill McCorkle, author of CREATURES OF HABIT and FERRIS BEACH, deservedly received the highest critical praise. These 11 stories bring us a specifically Southern, American world in which we meet seemingly universal, ordinary middle-aged women, who might live anywhere: their peculiarities will be familiar to many of us.

We meet a single middle-aged woman who has given up the journalism job she loved to care for her aged ornery mother, lead a life of lonely drudgery. A grandmother struggling to get along with her only grandchild, a troubled little girl, whose mother she doesnât especially care for. A wife and mother getting ready to step out with a co-worker. We watch these women walk into lifeâs inevitable traps, struggle to escape them. In her first collection in eight years, McCorkle gives us brand-new stories of women barefoot, in honeymoon slippers, mud-covered hunting boots, or four-inch spikes, as they struggle to new awareness, in one way or another, transforming their lives. They make mistakes, but donât waste time hiding behind them. They move on. They are strong. And theyâre funny, even when theyâre sad. These stories are the work of a fine storyteller who knows her chosen environment well, limns it exquisitely, knows her people, and knows exactly how, when and why, with wit and weight, to pair pain with laughter.

McCorkle is now the author of nine previously published books: four story collections, five novels. Five of which publications were selected as New York Times Notable Books. She is the recipient of the New England Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature, the North

Have previously read, reviewed, liked the authorâs North Carolina-set LIFE AFTER LIFE, THE CHEERLEADER. Am not ordinarily a fan of the short story. But, recently, lucky me, I saw the author read her glorious newest story, THE LINEMAN, at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where I now live.

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Title: Red Moon

Author: Benjamin Percy

Narrator: Benjamin Percy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-13

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

They live amongst us. They are your neighbour, your mother, your lover. You think they are safe. They change.

Every teenage girl thinks she's different. When government agents kick down Claire Forrester's front door and murder her parents, Claire realises just how different she is. Patrick Gamble was nothing special until the day he got on a plane and, hours later, stepped off it, the only passenger left alive. A hero. President Chase Williams has sworn to eradicate the menace. Unknown to the electorate, however, he is becoming the very thing he has sworn to destroy. Each of them is caught up in a war that so far has been controlled with laws and violence and drugs. But an uprising is about to leave them damaged, lost, and tied to one another for ever.

The night of the red moon is coming, when an unrecognizable world will emerge, and the battle for humanity will begin.

Critic Reviews:

"Benjamin Percy is one of the most gifted and versatile writers to appear in American publishing in years.... His prose has the masculine power of Ernest Hemingway's, but also the sensibilities and compassion of Eudora Welty. His writing is like a meeting of Shakespeare and rock 'n' roll. Benjamin Percy knows how to keep it in E-major, and what a ride it is." (James Lee Burke, author of Feast Day of Fools)

With Red Moon one of our most blazingly gifted young writers stakes his claim to national attention. Benjamin Percy has one great advantage over most writers who attempt "literary horror": he understands the literature of real horror from the inside out, and he speaks it like a native. This is a novel with the power to thrill and transport, also to lead the reader well out of her comfort zone and into emotional territory few people have ever seen." (Peter Straub)

Members Reviews:

Lost the plot

I have given up reading this book

I got to within the last 4 hrs but can't be bothered going on

The slow reading style really does my head in.

To the point I had to put it on a faster speed.

And the reader has a really deep voice

So slow in fact I thought my iPhone was going wrong.

When he puts on a voice for someone with a deeper voice I was expecting him to say

" hello ..... I want play a game"

Then make me escape some death trap.

Anyway this storY starts with lots of promise then total gets lost in itself. Flicking from scene to scene and leaving the listner thinking.

Did I miss something or did the mp3 skip somehow?

Won't be looking for anymore from this writer

Gothic horror story

Would you try another book written by Benjamin Percy or narrated by Benjamin Percy?

I wouldn't choose another book by Benjamin Percy.

What could Benjamin Percy have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

The story was bad enough, but (sorry Mr Percy) the delivery was so slow, every sentence drawn out for gothic effect, it almost succeeded in putting me to sleep.

Would you be willing to try another one of Benjamin Percys performances?

No, I found the pace of the delivery, milking the 'atmosphere' into thick slurry, extremely boring.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Red Moon?

Most of the totally unnecessary graphic gore, descriptive death scenes...

Any additional comments?

I can't recommend this book. Can I delete it from my library?

I can't carry on....I just can't!

What disappointed you about Red Moon?

The narration. Pure and simple.

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Title: Pacific

Author: Tom Drury

Narrator: Lloyd James

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

In a triumphant return to the characters that launched his career two decades ago, Tom Drury travels back to Grouse County, the setting of his landmark debut, The End of Vandalism. Drurys depictions of the stark beauty of the Midwest and the futility of American wanderlust have earned him comparisons to Raymond Carver, Sherwood Anderson, and Paul Auster.

When 14-year-old Micah Darling travels to Los Angeles to reunite with the mother who deserted him seven years ago, he finds himself out of his league in a land of magical freedom. He does new drugs with new people, falls in love with an enchanting but troubled equestrienne named Charlotte, and gets thrown out of school over the activities of a club called the New Luddites.

Back in the Midwest, an ethereal young woman comes to Stone City on a mission that will unsettle the lives of everyone she meets - including Micahs half-sister, Lyris, who still fights fears of abandonment after a childhood in foster care, and Micahs father, Tiny, a petty thief. An investigation into the strangers identity uncovers a darkly disturbed life, as parallel narratives of the comic and tragic, the mysterious and the everyday, unfold in both the country and the city.

A portrait of two disparate communities united by the restlessness and desperate hope of their residents, Drurys haunted souls, adrift between promise and circumstance, reveal our infinite capacity to "get in and out of trouble in unexpected ways" and still find a semblance of peace at the end.

Critic Reviews:

"Uncanny dialogue, deadpan humor, a few morbid twists, and a considerable amount of quirk make for an engaging read." (Publishers Weekly)

"Some writers are good at drawing a literary curtain over reality and splashing upon the curtain all colors of their fancies. And then there are the writers who raise the veil and lead us to see for the first time. Tom Drury belongs to the latter and is a rare master at the art of seeing. ReadingPacificmakes me once again fall in love with Drurys words and his perception of a world that is full of dangers and passions and mysteries and graces." (Yiyun Li, author ofGold Boy, Emerald Girl)

"A wild rideA fine percussive beat sweeps the reader along. The always fresh perspective of this one-of-a-kind writer will have you responding like his character who laughed with surprise in her heart." (Kirkus Reviews)

Members Reviews:

Terrific writing, fascinating characters

I loved âThe End of Vandalism.â I love this book too, which picks up many of the same characters and the interwoven threads of their lives. Drury style is sparse and masterful, generating the kind of emotional involvement one can get from poetry. It took me a long time to read this rather short novel. Why? Because I found the first chapter so beautifully written that I would have to put the book down when the chapter ended with Tinyâs remembered image of Micah and the goat dancing around the yard. When I came back to it, sometimes weeks later, I would start by re-reading the first chapter and, damn, the same thing would happen again and again. This is a book to savor, like the best jazz music, intensely original and ultimately immensely moving. I hope Drury picks up these characters in yet another novel or two.

Starts slow, but will pull you in

When I started Pacific, I had trouble getting into Drury's staccato prose of carefully-honed short sentences.

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Title: Fatherhood and Other Stories

Author: Thomas H. Cook

Narrator: Fred Sullivan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Over his acclaimed career, Cooks novels have haunted, riveted, and spellbound audiences across the world, and his short stories are equally acclaimed. They range from the intensely focused world of "Fatherhood", the Herodotus prize-winning title story, to the Edgar nominated "Rain", a dark, kaleidoscopic tale of Manhattan on a single, rain-swept night. "The Fix", the story of a famous boxing fix that was, well, not a fix at all, was selected for inclusion in Best Mystery Stories of the Year. "What She Offered", the gripping tale of a one-night stand, was included in The Best Noir Stories of the Century.

Like Cooks novels, the range of this collection is, itself, astonishing. From a backwoods Appalachian shack during the Depression ("Poor People") to a Midwestern college campus in the throes of '60s revolt ("The Sun-Gazer") to a midtown Manhattan bookstore on Christmas Eve, "The Lessons of the Season", this collection demonstrates precisely that, in the words of Michael Connolly, "no one tells a story better than Thomas H. Cook".

Members Reviews:

Style and Substance

After reading "Fatherhood and Other Stories," I'm more certain than ever that Thomas H. Cook is a brilliant stylist, perhaps the best I've ever read! I'm not certain, however, whether he loves or hates fathers. Alternately disrespectful and even more disrespectful to Dear Old Dad, Cook weaves wonderfully the father-son relationship in all its clarity and ambiguity. If I can paraphrase an oft-quoted quote Cook uses in one of his witty and wonderful short stories (I won't tell you which one, so I don't give away an ending!): "Father, forgive Thomas Cook, for he knows exactly what he does!"

Thomas H. Cook-my favorite!

These are wonderful short stories by my favorite author, Thomas H. Cook! I read it in one day. Could not put it down!-Next?

Not As Good As His Novels

I have enjoyed several of Cook's novels, so I was surprised at how average I found this collection of his short stories to be. "Rain," about the variety of human interactions which are "witnessed" by the rain, is the standout: "The rain sees the fickle web of chance meetings, the grid of untimely intersections, lethal fortuities from which there will be no escape." Its heart-shattering conclusion comes out of nowhere, feeling like a literal punch to the chest. "The Fix," about a former boxer who threw the fight of his career, is also very good.

Cook comes up with some lovely descriptive passages; in perhaps my favorite description in the entire collection, he introduces us to Harry, "his rounded shoulders slumped, his posture no less slumped, so that he seemed perpetually to be collapsing, or if not that, then held up by invisible strings that were themselves stretched and frayed and in imminent danger of snapping." Unfortunately, such passages cannot carry the stories on their own.

In "The Fix," Cook asks, "And what do the living owe each other, tell me that, if not to hear each other's stories?" Having read 11 of Cook's stories, I regret to say that most of them were not worth hearing.

My introduction to a great writer

These are beautiful stories. This was my first experience reading anything by Thomas Cook.

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Title: Vampire a Go-Go

Author: Victor Gischler

Narrator: Phil Holland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-30-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

Horror at its side-splitting best!

Victor Gischler is a master of the class-act literary spoof, and his work has drawn comparison to that of Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, and Thomas Pynchon. Now, Gischler turns his attention to werewolves, alchemists, ghosts, witches, and gun-toting Jesuit priests in Vampire a Go-Go, a hilarious romp of spooky, Gothic entertainment. Narrated by a ghost whose spirit is chained to a mysterious castle in Prague, Gischler's latest is full of twists and surprises that will have listeners screaming - and laughing - for more.

Members Reviews:

Dreadful!!!!

The most appalling narrator I've ever had the misfortune to listen to. No character voices just the same monotone voice for every second of this dreadful book. You have no idea who's talking, no idea of emotion or male or female characters, when people were meant to have accents nothing changed in his voice at all, simply awful!

I very very rarely write reviews and felt I needed to warn people not to buy this. Read the book instead, I think it would be an entertaining read but DO NOT listen to it it's awful!

Please choose your narrators carefully authors - it totally wrecks a book when they get it so so wrong!

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Title: The View on the Way Down

Author: Rebecca Wait

Narrator: Mandy Weston, Carl Prekopp

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 43 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

This audiobook will open your eyes and break your heart.

It is the story of Emmas two brothers: the one who died five years ago, Kit, and Jamie, who left home on the day of the funeral and has not returned since. It is the story of their parents, who have been keeping the truth from Emma and from each other. The past is not discussed or acknowledged, until a chance encounter brings devastating secrets to the surface and once again the family must face a crisis which may ultimately save them.

The View on the Way Down captures the insidious, sometimes violent, force of depression and its ability to tip lives into chaos. Gripping, moving, and ultimately hopeful, The View on the Way Down will have you rooting for the familys redemption.

Rebecca Wait graduated from Oxford University in 2010 with a first class degree in English, having been mentored by the poet and novelist Craig Raine at New College. Shes been writing since she was a child and has won numerous prizes for short stories and plays. Rebecca wrote The View on the Way Down in the evenings whilst working as a teaching assistant the year after graduating. In March 2013, Rebecca thrashed the competition to triumph as a Literary Death Match champion.

Critic Reviews:

"The View on the Way Down is a novel that deserves to win awards as well as a huge readership. Its a wise, honest, wonderful read that marks Rebecca Wait not just as a writer to watch out for, but one to appreciate now." (Daniel Clay, author of Broken)

"The View on the Way Down is deeply moving yet unsentimental and profound, and has a family secret at the heart of it that will remain with you for a long time after you finish reading. It is a novel that needed to be written and which will touch many people . . . a fine achievement." (Mark Gartside, author of What Will Survive)

"The View on the Way Down is written with great sympathy and an aching tenderness. Rebecca Waits evocative storytelling is alive to the tragedies and miracles of everyday life, illuminating the grey area between protecting and deceiving the ones we love." (Laura Harrington, author of Alice Bliss)

Members Reviews:

Beautiful Debut Novel - I LOVED THIS BOOK

This is a book that packs a lot of emotional punch in less than 8 hours - truly poignant and yet avoids being maudlin or manipulative. I am in awe of the ability of this young author to so clearly convey the feeling of deep depression from the POV of the sufferer while at the same time so skillfully demonstrating the devastating impact this affliction has on anyone who loves someone in the throes of depression. But that's not all - this very insightful view of depression and its painful rippling affects is presented in a beautifully written book that is NOT depressing. It is definitely moving, sometimes quite sad, but there is humor and ultimately a kind of genuine hopefulness that runs through the novel that makes it a book that's good and good for you.

When we meet Emma and her family, it is 5 years after the death of Emma's oldest brother Kit. 14-year-old Emma and her mother and father live under one roof, but barely function as a family; middle brother Jamie is completely estranged from the family.

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Title: It's a Dog's Life

Subtitle: A Romantic Comedy with a Canine Sidekick

Author: Dale Mayer

Narrator: Kellie Kamryn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-13

Publisher: The Killion Group

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Fiction, Humor

Publisher's Summary:

It's the first day of Ninna's job in the local animal shelter...and a dog is talking to her. Not just any dog...a fat, old, smart-alecky Basset Hound who says his name is Mosey. She can't quit, she needs this job. And then there's the yummy vet who turns out to live across the street from her. He has a house big enough to hold a few animals - including the mouthy Mosey. With all this going on, she doesn't have time to worry about the rash of break-ins and the sense of being watched. She's too busy worrying that she's nuts.

When Ninna agrees to dog sit for the cute vet from work, she sees it as a trial at being a pet owner and a way to build on her budding relationship with the vet. For Mosey, this weekend means time to get to know each other. For the stalker who's tracking Ninna's movements, it means...opportunity...

Members Reviews:

Fun and light

This was a short, fun read. The area of mental illness versus psychic ability and the twist at the end was unexpected and brought it all together nicely. Makes me miss my best friends. If you've ever loved and lost a pet, this book has a nice texture that you will not find in other romance comedies that will make you smile. It's a nice afternoon distraction.

Needs a better narrator

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

Perhaps having a different narrator. The narrator, while having a pleasant enough voice, wasn't very good. She never changed her voice when speaking as the different characters and sometimes it was difficult to tell who was talking. It was as if I was just listening to someone read aloud rather than listening to someone perform the story.

Would you be willing to try another one of Kellie Kamryns performances?

no

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

not much of a reaction to this book. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either. However, it is a novella so there isn't a lot of character or plot development.

Loved It

Loved the story unexpected ending very cleverly written. Anyone that has owned a dog will find this book a great read