A beautiful story of finding strength...

A beautiful story of finding strength and rising up after being beaten down after so long. Lisa is one of my favourite authors and this does not disappoint. She writes angst/heartache with such stunning accuracy that draws you in, yet what makes her my favourite is that she always delivers on the ending. It's always worth it and you never feel cheated, you always get what you need to feel satisfied, to make the heartache worthwhile for us and the characters she inevitably makes you fall in love with.

The way she showcased the world and the time were just immaculate. She didn't paint a rose-tinted picture of the west like many authors do, she didn't shy away from the difficult opinions, views and actions people of this time possessed. She didn't sugar coat it which I liked. She kept the gritty, even with the characters you liked, which made them so much more real. It gripped me from start to finish and even though Grady and Elijah don't interact much for the first half of the book, the world building, and the building of Elijah's character and Dr Carter's the whole world was so engaging I honestly didn't care. Yeah I longed for the moments when they came together but that's just what a good author does. My heart swooped with Elijah's when it did, and plummeted at the 'bad' parts in all the right ways. Just a stunning story from beginning to end that I actually looked forward to getting into my car and starting the commute to listen to more to.

The narrator did an amazing job. It must've been hard to decide how to read for a deaf character but I think he did it well, portraying how sometimes Elijah would be more coherent than others, it just made sense, since he wasn't deaf from the start. The characters all had their own voice, I really loved his take on Grady's in particular. And his voice of Crane's had the ability to make you loathe the character before he'd even really done anything. Was just perfection. His tone and accent really brought the feel of the story to life and couldn't recommend his read of this story more. 5 stars!

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I need more TLC

It was a bit too rough for my romance searching heart. Definitely an original story. Unpredictable. But I longed for so much more than I got in the end. I need at least a HFN and was not convinced that was the case here.

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as good as the ebook

The story is always full stars, because if I wouldn't like the story as ebook, I wouldn't listen to the audiobook. I can't listen to an audiobook without knowing the book, that's not possible for me.

The performance from the narrator is also very important for me. I can't listen to a lot, because my English as a non-native-speaker isn't so perfect to follow a whole story over hours, when the narrator speaks too fast or too sloppy. Normally I have to SEE the person, who is talking to me in English. It took me a little bit, to come into the narrator, but at the end, it worked. I only have to take a few breaks between. I'm just not yet finish with the book, I’m over the half, but I listen enough to give a review.

PLEASE READ MY RATING SYSTEM!!!

To my ratings:

5* - very very good
it's like an A+

4* - very good and will be often re-listening
it's like an A

3* - it's more then a one-time-listening.
it's like a B

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