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Cursed

Auteur(s): Tara Brown
Narrateur(s): Julie McKay
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What are you waiting for? NA paranormal fantasy at its best by international best-selling author Tara Brown.

Someone is drugging the fairest of them all and hurting them in the dark corners of the forests around Port Mackenzie - shrouding the town in mystery and darkness. But nothing is as it seems. In the dark corners of the small town, there is also a light, a cure to what ails the sick. But everything comes at a cost, a price that must be paid. Aimee James discovers that cost the moment she dies. She discovers there are worse things than dying. She finds herself cursed. Discover how the Devil's Roses all starts because in the end it is the beginning that chooses who we will become and what side we will take.

Note from the author - This is the newly edited version. It won't ever be perfect because this is where I started; this was my first book. I don't even recognize the style of writing anymore, I have changed so much. So it is nice for me to be able to look at this and see where I started, how much I have grown as an author. We have gotten it as close to perfect as we can without ruining the experience of a debut novel by me, Tara Brown. Hope you enjoy, and thank you so much for listening to my beginning.

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I was looking for something different than my usual and struggled through it. Probably better for a younger generation read.

Just not my type

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If you are a Junior High-School girl or have fond memories of 'Dawson's Creek' or 'Beverly Hills 90210', this book will hit some buttons. Tara Brown has a firm grasp on the awkward state of older teens - struggling with raging hormones, trying to maintain a grasp on mom/dad/childhood, and awkwardly fantasizing about doing "adult" things like drinking, partying, and having sex. To her credit, Brown deftly incorporates modern technology into the story (Social Media, "Selfie" culture, etc.), provides realistic descriptions of cliquishness and "mean girls", and has the courage to confront topics like death & loss, promiscuity & rape, and adultery & family breakdown - but (speaking as a father of now adult children) paints an incredibly depressing picture.
In addition, the "paranormal" and "fantasy" elements to the story start ethereal - then become occultish. It takes a long time to get into those aspects of the story (as in.. 10 chapters), anyway - and even then they turn out ludicrous & contrived - and are overwhelmed by love triangles, frustrated lust, and rivalries for almost the whole book. Oddly, the last couple of chapters become explicit, filled with foul language, and uncomfortably dark. This book is very unusual (wierdly aimless until settling on the horror/sex themes that doubtless distinguish the 'Devil's Roses' series).

Narrator Julie McKay does a very good job with the dialogue she's given (with admirable cadence, timbre, and tone and straight-up outstanding voice-acting), but unfortunately *contributes* to the "meh" impression I got from the audiobook. McKay reads far too slowly (listen at 1.15X for a more natural pace) and displays a "valley-girlish" overenunciated diction that gets fairly annoying.

Altogether, this 5/10 star origin story for a soul-stealing antihero isn't terrible, but only worth a listen if you fit into one of Brown's target demographics or truly love the series
..and can get the book as a 'Plus' selection. If Audible asks for a Credit, spend it elsewhere.

Too Much Teenaged Drama

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I know that the MC is an 18yo but the out of control hormones were just too much for me. I never got to the "After" portion of the book was because the MC couldn't keep her shit together long enough for the other character to explain what was going on to her. The long drawn out description of how he made her feel and his abs and how sexy he was ruined the a tuap plot. It's a shame because I would have lived to find out how she became what she was in the VERY brief blurb before the backstory started.

could not finish

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