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Can’t really date this book. The male gaze suggests the 60’s, the female love interest “smiles up” at him and lets him blather on patiently. She has no inner life as yet and talks a lot about her father and grandfather. The AI personalities hark back to the 90’s. I’ll go read the book details.

Any older women reading this?

What?? The London girl now speaks with an American accent? That’s just plain weird. And very distracting.

What the hell did I just buy

It’s becoming very difficult not to quit this book. This is another of those YA books where all the adults are flat and one-dimensional. They are voids, leaving Rose to make every single choice by herself. There are no deep thoughts here and the adults are bobble-heads.

Rose is a self-absorbed, short-sighted girl. Arrogant and insecure at the same time. A perfect 13-year old. I do hope she grows up later in the sorry.

It’s all so grim and miserable. Don’t know if I can finish this.

Does nobody cook in this story?

I rarely listen to Dutch narrators but am enjoying the voice of Phaedra Kwant, such a good fit.

So many little inconsistencies. She wants to kill everyone but couldn’t stand up to 1 guy in her home town. She’s 20 and still “a girl”, after 10 years on the street. Never has any education but speaks to royalty like an equal. Etc etc

I really don’t enjoy listening to young women being beat up and threatened with death. It’s a crappy story line.

Can’t seem to get through the start so this. I don’t care about Adam, I keep missing the point of his ringdoms…. Hanging on my fingernails.

Mensen, wat is een functionalistisch huis??

Surprised by the way one of the lesser characters is stepping up.

Pagina 7, de intro. Huilen.

Bloedirritante schrijfstijl. Al die ik-verhaaltjes maken het heel kinderlijk en werken voor mij averechts. Ik zet nog even door want het was een duur boek en er staan ook echt nuttige dingen in. De manier waarop echter 😫

Voor heterovrouwen

Een boek voor vrouwen en in hoofdstuk 6 wordt alles uitgelegd.

Ooooohhhh read by Steven Pacey ❤️

Nearly finished. Book 3 has many more information dumps and I find it hard to picture Nassum as a 10-year old. Tough going sometimes but I have to know how this ends

I am so confused. What’s going on and why is everyone so angry and unhappy?

DNF half way through I gave up. This book was such hard work. The mysogenie was awful, they stuff they do do babies was awful, the characters were mostly awful…. Here’s a review sums up the plot holes nicely:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

O god the drama. Salty tears, wrenching guilt, rushing blood, rising bile… ugh

Ballard is such an unlikeble, emotional wreck of a man.

Simon Vance. Let’s go.

Only men can combine being a single parent and a dog owner, with a life threatening job that takes them away from home at all hours.

Squeeeeeeeee a new Corey read by Jefferson Mays! I’m sorry Tchaikovsky (and Sophie Alfred), part 2 of shards of earth will have to wait.

Narrator Sophie Aldred is superb.