![]() ![]() Instead of working through the challenges and mysteries her main character faced in the real world, the author did the "Poof! Magic will fix it!" miracle solution. But when the whole frozen lake thing began, I felt thoroughly manipulated. ![]() Sara's year following Megan's death seemed correctly imagined. The story started strong and the scenes during Megan's illness (when I could hear the whispering!) were very moving. She could begin with slight differences, but the voices all quickly returned to her "baseline" man and her "baseline" woman. Michael sounded like Matt who sounded like Peter who sounded like. Sara sounded like Cora who sounded like Jen who sounded like Sara. (I've since apologized to my IPod.) I suppose that might have been OK if she'd at least had a nice variety of voices. Then someone "else" would speak in a normal tone and I'm frantically reaching for the volume to back it down to avoid permanent hearing loss. So I'd stop what I was doing, wipe my hands if working, turn up the volume and go back to work. and her voice would get softer and softer and softer until the words would begin to run together like a low frequency vibration, rather than actual speech. ![]() I listen when I'm doing other things - driving, cooking, gardening, etc. ![]() Seriously! She breaks into whispering at key scenes. I don't know where to start to explain why this is so bad. ![]()
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