great story. terrible narration

great plot, but very painful and boring with this narrator. I have read other books by the author. but I will avoid this reader.

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The Forgotten Recipe

The plot was great. I felt the number of times Jason agonized over telling Veronica about Seth grew a bit tiresome. Mrs. Clipston is one of my favorite Amish authors and I'm looking forward to the rest of the series. The narrator was distracting and mediocre.

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Good/bad

The story line is such a warm book but the reader was dry. Not much emotion & flat. “See dong run” type of emotion

Narrator

The narrator should learn to pronounce Pennsylvania Dutch appropriately. It was distracting to say the least. Otherwise, I enjoyed the story.

Review

Loved it! Hard to put down. Another great book by Amy Clipston, ready to grab another.

Both sides are understandable.

I almost know nothing about Amish. What I learned from this book is that they are just ordinary people. I thought they were more advanced in psychological, mental, spiritual ways but they were just people, after all. Support from family, friends and neighbors are very precious and wonderful especially when you are grieving deeply. But sometimes it is OK and good to just leave someone alone for some time, I think. Veronica's reluctance to move forward from her loss and Jason's fear to tell Veronica about his relationship with Seth were both very understandable. This book also told me that delaying something you don't want to do won't help anything, just making things worse and more complicated. Ms. Cooney's performance leaves so much to be improved but is it possible? It is not my business to say but something is completely lacking in her narrating, her tone is so flat and unemotional. But for Jason and Veronica's mother, her quiet performance wasn't that bad. That's why I rated as 2 stars.

it's ok

pronunciation was terrible. story seemed to drag. it could have been wrapped up sooner or had more content. one or the other. have listened to a lot of amish books and this narrator really killed some of the words.

Boring

The characters were boring and the ending was anticlimactic. I agree with everyone that the narrator was flat and even the voice on the intro and outro was robotic.

This one to read

The person reading is so difficult to listen to! The pacing and just the style it is read in makes it unbearable! Definitely a book to just borrow from the library to read myself and not an audiobook.

Great book!

Loved the entire series! I usually only listen on my commute to and from work, but this series was so captivating, I was listening everywhere. I really enjoyed the heart, love, forgiveness, & compassion that radiated from the characters. I enjoyed them so much I bought a hard copy of all 4 books for my sister-in-law for Christmas😁