i found this a struggle

I would advise waiting for the film. this story meanders through flashbacks and unreliable narrators, with stakes that don't really seem to pay off. I can't in all good conscience recommend this book. I read it as part of a book club and the consensus was it's not great. I didn't enjoy the performer either

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didn't finish it

I've also seen the movie, and hoped the book would bring a little more insight but this was so bad. the narrator sounded so uninspired, every character sounded exactly the same. I couldn't finish it, it was unbearable

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Alexa, read me a story

I am going to read this instead of listening to it. I'm not sure why Alexa was chosen for the narration of this, but I made it through 1 chapter and had to stop

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Possibly the worse narration job ever recorded.

Amy Landon's narration was so bad she sounded like a computer generated voice you find on those crappy YouTube videos.
Some of the character's voices sounded like robots with no care as to where pathos or any kind of nuance needed to be.

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Through listening, you will understand suffering.

great story, felt a bit flat at times.


the narrator should be tried for war crimes

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Narration is just awful

Honestly the worst narrator I’ve experienced with Audible. Perhaps it’s a little unfair as the narration was so awful I couldn’t really give the story a chance.

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The film is way better…………

The last few hours were tedious, repetitive and boring, The story never gets gripping or exiting. I was really disappointed with the ending as the title says the film is a much more rewarding story and characters are well cast, In the early parts it comes super close to book in detail, Then it falls away once (The choice) needs to be made.
Needed more drama towards the end and thought to actually make us believe both sides more.
I ended the book not really bothered if the world did end I was glad the book did.

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High hopes that failed to reach...

Started off really well and held my attention for a good while. Unfortunately, half way in my interest rapidly dropped. I don't know if I would listen to more from this author.

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Great if you like Stephen king.

Too much exposition. Disappointing ending. Read in an odd iambic pentameter way. I didn't enjoy this for the same reason I don't enjoy Stephen King. Too much time setting the scene with content that could make a great short story not a novel.

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Disappointing

I saw the movie and thought I'd get the book, as it's usually better than the screen adaptation, and I'd read and enjoyed "A head full of Ghosts" by the same author. I was very disappointed when I realised that the film was better. Without spoiling it, the strangers that arrive feel only half-developed (bar one); they should either be a mystery or explored in more depth for this to work. The writing gets repetitive in places, where it's obvious that it was a writing choice to create urgency, but it's done for too long. These are not the only issues, but revealing what's the main issue for me would be a spoiler. I'm guessing now that it's probably just this author's style.

Even though the narrator gives a different voice to each character, which is great, sometimes she makes some sentences in the dialogue sound like narration, and that gets annoying, especially since it's throughout the whole book.

I wouldn't recommend this book.

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