AUDIOBOOK ➯ EVERY NOW AND THEN

BY LESLEY KAGEN

NARRATED BY HILARY HUBER

❐SYNOPSIS & BUY LINKS ON AUTHORS WEBSITE❐

❐ Overall Rating 3.5 | 5 Narration

❐ Literary Fiction 

❐ Coming-of-age 

❐ With a splash of mystery

❐ Three friends and their adventures in the Summer of 1960

First off, I love the cover and I loved Hilary Huber's narration...in fact, I always love her narration.  Those two things are what sealed the deal for me to give this book a try.

This book is compared or likened to Where the Crawdads Sing and I can see that.  They both have a historical setting of the 1960s.  Both have a splash of mystery.  Also, they both deal with prejudices.  Plus, they both have a kind of slow-burning pace, with really memorable endings. Although, WTCS has more going on throughout the story to keep you invested in the story, overall.  ENAT doesn't really have that...at least I didn't feel that it did. 

While the ending got a little intense and was even a little bit jaw-dropping...I just didn't feel that it was worthwhile enough to make me forget how bored I was with the story up until the ending.  I'm certain there will be lots of readers/listeners who love this story just the way it is, though.  

❐ Libby Listen through my Library

❐ Length ➯ 9H 1M

❐ Plot ➯ 3.5/5
❐ Characters ➯ 3.5/5
❐ The Feels ➯ 3/5
❐ Mystery/Thrills ➯ 2.8/5
❐ Ending ➯ 4.3/5

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW ➯ REVOLUTION

 

BY JENNIFER DONNELLY

NARRATED BY EMILY JANICE CARD & EMMA BERING

❐SYNOPSIS & BUY LINKS ON AUTHORS WEBSITE❐

THE DETAILS✎

❐ PARIS SETTING BOTH 1790'S AND PRESENT DAY-ISH

❐ DUAL POV'S --ONE PRESENT (ANDI) & ONE PAST (ALEX)

❐ A SENIOR THESIS PROJECT

❐ FRENCH REVOLUTION

❐ MUSICALLY INFLUENCED BOTH MODERN & CLASSICAL

❐ TIME-TRAVELING OR JUST A REALLY VIVID DREAMSCAPE

❐ LENGTH OF AUDIO ➯ 15 HOURS, 4 MINUTES

❐ I LISTENED ON LIBBY THROUGH MY LIBRARY

MY REVIEW IN ONE SENTENCE ➯ A historical story immersed within a modern story with a dollop of romance, plenty of music references, time-travel, and one broken family trying to cope with the pain of losing someone they love.

The narration by Emily Janice Card & Emma Bering was very well performed.  I did struggle sometimes with comprehending the french words and accents, but that's on me.  It's funny though after I finished this and went to sleep, throughout my dreams I kept hearing french accents.

This started out slow...with a lot of inane teen drama and chatter...but once the MC goes to Paris with her Dad...things get a whole lot more interesting.  It was like a history lesson on the French Revolution with a bonus of music history.  I really enjoyed this aspect and even tried to look up the composer that she was doing her thesis on...but alas, I think he was made up.

There is some time-traveling of a sort, which for others could be a turn-off, but it really only enhanced the history aspect for me and I really liked it.  Overall, I found this to be an entertaining story, and since the narration was so excellently performed I readily recommend the audio version...especially for those slow parts of the story...listening always makes this so much easier to power through than actual reading.  

BREAKDOWN✎

Narration ➯ 5 STARS

Plot ➯ 4.3/5

Characters ➯ 4/5

The Feels ➯ 4.3/5

Pacing ➯ 4/5

Addictiveness ➯ 4.3/5

Theme, Tone or Intensity ➯ 4.3/5

Originality ➯ 5/5

Flow (Writing Style/Ease of Listening) ➯ 4.2/5

World-Building ➯ 4.3/5

Ending ➯ 5/5

SUMMATION ➯ 4¼ STARS

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW ➯ MIDNIGHT AT THE ELECTRIC (UPDATED REVIEW)

BY JODI LYNN ANDERSON

NARRATED BY JORJEANA MARIE, BAILEY CARR & FIONA HARDINGHAM

❐SYNOPSIS & BUY LINKS ON AUTHORS WEBSITE❐

THE DETAILS❐

❐ COMING OF AGE

❐ FUTURISTIC MIXED WITH HISTORICAL

❐ THREE POV'S

❐ KANSAS SETTING --PRESENT 

❐ ENGLAND SETTING --PAST

❐ PRESENT AND PAST POV'S 

❐ LENGTH OF AUDIO ➯ 6 HOURS, 20 MINUTES

❐ I LISTENED THROUGH SCRIBD

This book is not what the synopsis leads you to believe.  For me, it's a story about a turtle and how he has touched different lives through the passage of many years…its…mystifying yet enchanting…and nonetheless, it still needed something more. I think it could have been perfect if it was just a little bit longer.  Which is not how I usually feel about a book.  What I did get from this was nearly perfect and I just wanted a little more of it.

MY RATING➯ 4 STARS

BREAKDOWN❐

Narration ➯ 5 STARS

Plot ➯ 3.8/5

Characters ➯ 4/5

The Feels ➯ 4.2/5

Pacing ➯ 3.8/5

Addictiveness ➯ 4/5

Theme, Tone or Intensity ➯ 4.2/5

Originality ➯ 5/5

Flow (Writing Style/Ease of Listening) ➯ 4.5/5

World-Building/Twisty-ness/Mystery/Romance/Chemistry ➯ 4.5/5

Ending ➯ 3.8/5

SUMMATION ➯ 4 STARS