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Home Tears
- Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Length: 10 hrs
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Summary
Dan's survived a lot. Her mother died. Her two sisters loathed her. One aunt hated her. The other was strangely distant, but the worst storm was being dumped by her childhood best friend/high school boyfriend/first love for her younger sister. There went the one person who was hers and with that, the main reason she stuck around. So, she left for 10 years. But now she's back, and nothing's the same.
With help from Jonah Bannon, a reformed - kind of - bad boy she remembers from high school, Dani uncovers family secrets that have spanned generations. And along with those, she's about to face the biggest storm of her life. Only this time, she may not survive.
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- Garden girl
- 18-11-23
Emotional!
This has been such an emolisten! Dani's life has been full of lies, secrecy, tragedy and a sense of abandonment, but, finally, she is home to dig through all of these, find the truth and heal. The narrator, Sarah Mollo Christensen, is excellent. She is nuanced, expressive and the story just flows from her. Fabulous 💖💖💖💖💖
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- Jacki and Andrew
- 28-12-23
A deep family story
I am a fan of Tijan and I was happy to stumble across this title here. It is quite different to many of the other titles I have read, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is deep, raw, and right provoking. Overall, a more melancholy read, but very good.
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- Gemma Haysman
- 08-03-24
really good easy listen
was a really good easy to listen book. had everything you need. really wonderful flow and story line.
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- Kat P
- 23-05-17
Coming Home
I love this story, it's a coming home story to make you cry. Good crying
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- LilleyLoohLah
- 24-03-17
Perfect narration
I read and loved Home Torn on Wattpad, and was expecting Home Tears to be practically the same. How wrong I was? It was even better. Home Tears had all the best bits of Home Torn with some even better bits added in the mix. We follow Dani as she returns to her hometown after 10 years. Having to deal with ex boyfriends, an aunt and a sister that hate her, along with a whole bunch of family issues, most of which are surrounded by secrets and lies. Add on to this the fact that she is running again from tragedy and loss and we have her past, her present and her future colliding Ina spectacular way. Wonderful story, interesting characters and with a love interest like Jonah (he was pretty much perfect), I couldn't fault it. I was hooked. Loved it.
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- Emma
- 21-03-21
Loved it
This is a great read and listen too it about finding your self after heartbreak and not belong and then finding yourself at death door but home is where we all go back
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- Lisa
- 13-11-23
A melancholy tale.
Dani runs away from home after her childhood best friend and boyfriend breaks up with her for her sister. Ten years later she comes back home to heal, after having survived a natural disaster, to find her sister dead and her ex bf engaged to her other sister.
This is a small town tale, involving a family with generations and layers of secrets: Two generations of three sisters, who for whatever reason just don’t get on. There’s a lot going on, romance with Jonah, the town bad boy turned hero, the tension between Dani and her remaining sister Julia who is now engaged to Jake her ex, the tension between Dani and her favourite aunt May, the tension and lack of closure between Dani and Jake (and can I just say here ewww! All three sisters Jake? Seriously dude?) and on top of all that the various secrets, who is their father? Who is their grandfather? What happened to their grandmother? Why did Dani never feel part of the family? Also underneath all that is a town mystery, regarding developers and waterways.
What’s poor about this story is the happenstance and coincidence that drives a lot of the narrative, people turning up in random places when they shouldn’t really be there. It’s poor plotting - there are other ways to work people into a story, and in some cases it was a little unbelievable. Also as with a lot of Tijin’s stories, there’s a hint of danger that never really comes to fruition, but just disappears. There was a lot of that in this book, not least the jump at the end from the final chapter where everything was a disaster, and the sunny epilogue. All seemed a bit rushed.
What’s great about this book are the characters, who are all flawed to a greater or lesser degree (except Jonah who is just perfectly swoon able!), yet there are no real villains (apart from Jenny possibly but she’s so inconsequential as not to matter). Dani is lost when we meet her, suffering imho from survivors guilt, which makes her do a terrible thing to Boon, but even though I did feel terribly sorry for Boon, it is true that he and Dani knew so little about each other they were not the right people to be with each other. He was a sweet guy though and I would have liked for him to have his own story. The disaster at the end was exciting, and came in waves (pun intended), and kept me on the edge of my seat (even if it did all seem to stop abruptly.)
I think this might be an early work of Tijan, and I think that shows in the plotting, and the fact the characters all seemed a bit immature for 30 somethings. But it’s a good listen, as the narrator did a really good job of portraying what was in the page to bring it alive. Worth a listen.
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- Sarah Marshall
- 17-01-20
Just didn't really feel it for characters
I don't know what to say about this book tbh. I almost gave up after a couple of hours. There was just something missing that didn't make me warm to Dani. I felt myself not caring what had happened to her.
Normally I love books that have a bit of mystery/twists and turns. This one however just switched me off. The romance between Johnar and Dani also seemed to have something missing. It's almost like the writer tried to cram too much into the character when really it was unnecessary.
Think the major disaster at the end and the whole tsunami back story was a bit too much on top of her complex family back story.
But maybe this is just me because I wasn't feeling it for the book. Read some of Tijans other books and enjoyed them. Thought narrator was good too.
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