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  • Born

  • Born Trilogy Series # 1
  • By: AE Watson
  • Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
  • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (41 ratings)
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By: AE Watson
Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
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Summary

The world has changed. The buildings have fallen, blown away with the winds. The roads crumble as the forest takes back the land we stole a long time ago. It's only been 10 years since the end, but it feels like a hundred for Emma, who has been alone since the beginning, surviving on the skills her crazy father forced on her.

Trust no one. Pull the trigger. Hide. Run. Stay away from the other survivors. Stay away from the Infected. She has obeyed her father's rules since she can remember running from the car accident that claimed his life. But one night that all changes. The knock at her cabin door and the voice of the girl on the other side don't make Emma help the girl. No - it's the fact that the girl, Anna, is willing to die to save her wounded brother that changes everything in Emma's world. Emma finds friends and family in Anna and her brother, Jake. She feels things that she thought she never would. But like her Granny always said, "Everything comes at a cost. You must decide what you are willing to pay." For Emma that decision comes as Anna is stolen and taken to the breeder farms. Emma knows that she will pay anything to get Anna back, including her own life.

©2012 Tara Brown (P)2015 Tantor

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Dodgy misogyny, bad grammar, but decent story

It’s unpleasant how even the bits that are supposed to be genuine attractions are dripping with misogyny and men who ignore consent and men who cross boundaries and apparently that’s all ok.
Some grammar mistakes.
Otherwise the story is ok if you like dystopian/post-apocalyptic stuff, which I do.

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Fabulous Book

Fantastic Listen
Great Narration
The storyline is gripping with great characters and a wonderful wolf. I was on board from page one and listened continually over one day.
The narrator is pure perfection... velvet on my ears with the right amount of emotion and inflection when need.
I can't stop... just downloaded book 2. No sleep for me tonight.

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A good story,but…

I enjoyed the story most of the way through, although parts annoyed me. Someone who supposedly cared for the main character ignoring her when she spoke, pulling her around and generally behaving in a manner which most women would not and should not tolerate, misogyny at its finest!

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Creepy male leads

Decent story and idea but the overbearing macho chauvinism is wearing especially in the so called romantic scenes.
A bad message that could lead you to assume that women actually respond well to that treatment,

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  • LJ
  • 18-03-24

It was….ok

It was free and decent enough to hold my attention. Set in a world where 95% of men appear to be sadistic rapists and women are there to be abused or used as breeding livestock - can’t help but wonder with all the unbelievable stories coming over from the USA whether it’s how the world is going! Scary!

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Good premise - conflicting characters

The premise (post apocalyptic/dystopian future) is good and had an interesting take on gender roles in a future society within corrupt government systems- nothing especially new or groundbreaking but interesting enough to listen to. The characters however are jarring - the reluctant hero/main protagonist goes on enough of a journey to show growth and begin development into a kick ass Katnis Everdeen style hero. HOWEVER the male characters are rooted in misogynistic stereotypes and the way the hero flits from bad ass feminist into a female who is under the spell of douchebag males while having a drearyinternal battle of why they fall for these types gets in the way of keeping the bad ass the author is intending to build on track. The author needs to pick a lane and remove the angsty trope which is feel is over Americanised and they would have a solid teen/ya dystopian series on their hands.

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Grabbed me straight away!

Brilliant. If you have ever read the passage this is similar in the way you are absorbed into each character. Loved it and can’t wait to start the next one. Cliffhanger or what! Will be buying these books for sure. Love a hard copy. If you enjoy a free audiobook always buy a hard copy to credit the author.

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Story=awful

The heroin was good and well written as was the world. But the interactions??!!! Why did she suddenly like the brothers, there was no development going on.

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Really poor

Twilight in a post apocolyptic world full of mysoginy . This was based so much about the relationships, triangles and love interests of the protaganist. Must be for 14 year old girls. Can't belive the amount of times someone kissed her without permission and how she seemed to still love men who were abusing her, without any external reasons to explain why she tolerated it. When there was potential for genuine challanging issues around rape etc they were told with a very thin reference to the horror that such a reality would manifest and seemed unbelievable.

Some of the concepts were good and would have been interesting if elaborated upon.

More real story and less childish girlie angst and appaling men please.

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great listen

A good story, the male characters are a bit annoying but the whole thing was easy to listen to

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