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The Last House Guest
- Auteur(s): Megan Miranda
- Narrateur(s): Rebekkah Ross
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Littleport, Maine, has always felt like two separate towns: an ideal vacation enclave for the wealthy, whose summer homes line the coastline; and a simple harbor community for the year-round residents whose livelihoods rely on service to the visitors. Typically, fierce friendships never develop between a local and a summer girl - but that’s just what happens with visitor Avery Greer and Littleport resident Sadie Loman. Each summer for almost a decade, the girls are inseparable - until Sadie is found dead. Avery can’t help but feel there are those in the community who blame her.
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- Écrit par Melissa Brown le 2019-12-05
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The Cactus
- Auteur(s): Sarah Haywood
- Narrateur(s): Katherine Manners
- Durée: 10 h et 30 min
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For Susan Green, messy emotions don’t fit into the equation of her perfectly ordered life. She has a flat that is ideal for one, a job that suits her passion for logic, and an “interpersonal arrangement” that provides cultural and other more intimate benefits. But suddenly confronted with the loss of her mother and the news that she is about to become a mother herself, Susan’s greatest fear is realized. She is losing control.
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Excellent story and narration
- Écrit par Marjorie E le 2019-06-25
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The Secrets We Kept
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Lara Prescott
- Narrateur(s): Carlotta Brentan, Cynthia Farrell, Mozhan Marnò, Autres
- Durée: 10 h et 55 min
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At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world - using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets out of powerful men. Irina is a complete novice, and is under Sally's tutelage....
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City of Girls
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrateur(s): Blair Brown
- Durée: 15 h et 8 min
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Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance.
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Okay
- Écrit par John le 2019-06-25
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The Giver of Stars
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Jojo Moyes
- Narrateur(s): Julia Whelan
- Durée: 13 h et 52 min
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Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So, when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything.
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Loved it!
- Écrit par Paris le 2019-10-21
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The Other Mrs. Miller
- Auteur(s): Allison Dickson
- Narrateur(s): Holly Palance
- Durée: 9 h et 58 min
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When a new family moves in across the street - the exuberant Vicki, who just might become the gossipy best friend Phoebe's always wanted, and her handsome college-bound son, Jake, who offers companionship of a different variety - Phoebe finds her dull routine infused with the excitement she's been missing. But with her head turned she's no longer focused on the woman in the car. And she really should be.
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Pass on this one.
- Écrit par Maria le 2019-10-03
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The Last House Guest
- Auteur(s): Megan Miranda
- Narrateur(s): Rebekkah Ross
- Durée: 10 h et 2 min
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Littleport, Maine, has always felt like two separate towns: an ideal vacation enclave for the wealthy, whose summer homes line the coastline; and a simple harbor community for the year-round residents whose livelihoods rely on service to the visitors. Typically, fierce friendships never develop between a local and a summer girl - but that’s just what happens with visitor Avery Greer and Littleport resident Sadie Loman. Each summer for almost a decade, the girls are inseparable - until Sadie is found dead. Avery can’t help but feel there are those in the community who blame her.
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- Écrit par Melissa Brown le 2019-12-05
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The Cactus
- Auteur(s): Sarah Haywood
- Narrateur(s): Katherine Manners
- Durée: 10 h et 30 min
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For Susan Green, messy emotions don’t fit into the equation of her perfectly ordered life. She has a flat that is ideal for one, a job that suits her passion for logic, and an “interpersonal arrangement” that provides cultural and other more intimate benefits. But suddenly confronted with the loss of her mother and the news that she is about to become a mother herself, Susan’s greatest fear is realized. She is losing control.
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Excellent story and narration
- Écrit par Marjorie E le 2019-06-25
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The Secrets We Kept
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Lara Prescott
- Narrateur(s): Carlotta Brentan, Cynthia Farrell, Mozhan Marnò, Autres
- Durée: 10 h et 55 min
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At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world - using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets out of powerful men. Irina is a complete novice, and is under Sally's tutelage....
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City of Girls
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrateur(s): Blair Brown
- Durée: 15 h et 8 min
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Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance.
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Okay
- Écrit par John le 2019-06-25
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The Giver of Stars
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Jojo Moyes
- Narrateur(s): Julia Whelan
- Durée: 13 h et 52 min
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Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So, when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything.
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Loved it!
- Écrit par Paris le 2019-10-21
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The Other Mrs. Miller
- Auteur(s): Allison Dickson
- Narrateur(s): Holly Palance
- Durée: 9 h et 58 min
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When a new family moves in across the street - the exuberant Vicki, who just might become the gossipy best friend Phoebe's always wanted, and her handsome college-bound son, Jake, who offers companionship of a different variety - Phoebe finds her dull routine infused with the excitement she's been missing. But with her head turned she's no longer focused on the woman in the car. And she really should be.
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Pass on this one.
- Écrit par Maria le 2019-10-03
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Daisy Jones & The Six
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrateur(s): Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer, Autres
- Durée: 9 h et 3 min
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Daisy is a girl coming of age in LA in the late '60s, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she’s 20, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne.
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Don't skip this book!
- Écrit par Kait le 2019-06-22
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Where the Crawdads Sing
- Auteur(s): Delia Owens
- Narrateur(s): Cassandra Campbell
- Durée: 12 h et 12 min
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For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life - until the unthinkable happens.
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Highly recommend!
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-10-13
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Mrs. Everything
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Jennifer Weiner
- Narrateur(s): Ari Graynor, Beth Malone
- Durée: 16 h et 45 min
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From Jennifer Weiner, the number-one New York Times best-selling author of Who Do You Love and In Her Shoes comes a smart, thoughtful, and timely exploration of two sisters’ lives from the 1950s to the present as they struggle to find their places - and be true to themselves - in a rapidly evolving world. Mrs. Everything is an ambitious, richly textured journey through history - and herstory - as these two sisters navigate a changing America over the course of their lives.
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Such a wonderful read!
- Écrit par Michelle le 2019-11-08
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The Turn of the Key
- Auteur(s): Ruth Ware
- Narrateur(s): Imogen Church
- Durée: 12 h et 13 min
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When Rowan stumbles across an ad for a live-in nanny, she’s looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss - with a staggeringly generous salary. And when she arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten - by the luxurious "smart" house fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. What Rowan doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare - one that will end with a child dead and Rowan in prison awaiting trial for murder.
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Not her best
- Écrit par Michelle Jones le 2019-09-05
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The Silent Patient
- Auteur(s): Alex Michaelides
- Narrateur(s): Jack Hawkins, Louise Brealey
- Durée: 8 h et 43 min
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Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening, her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety.
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Couldn't stop listening
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2019-02-21
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Gail Honeyman
- Narrateur(s): Cathleen McCarron
- Durée: 11 h et 2 min
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Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office.
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Loved!!
- Écrit par Diana Geary le 2018-06-10
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Three Women
- Auteur(s): Lisa Taddeo
- Narrateur(s): Tara Lynne Barr, Marin Ireland, Mena Suvari, Autres
- Durée: 11 h et 24 min
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It thrills us and torments us. It controls our thoughts, destroys our lives, and it’s all we live for. Yet, we almost never speak of it. And as a buried force in our lives, desire remains largely unexplored - until now. Over the past eight years, journalist Lisa Taddeo has driven across the country six times to embed herself with ordinary women from different regions and backgrounds. The result, Three Women, is the deepest nonfiction portrait of desire ever written and one of the most anticipated books of the year.
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I’m still trying to figure out how to explain what I think of this book. It’s every woman in some way. Magnificent read!
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2019-07-24
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The Gifted School
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Bruce Holsinger
- Narrateur(s): January LaVoy
- Durée: 13 h et 53 min
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This deliciously sharp novel captures the relentless ambitions and fears that animate parents and their children in modern America, exploring the conflicts between achievement and potential, talent and privilege. Set in the fictional town of Crystal, Colorado, The Gifted School is a keenly entertaining novel that observes the drama within a community of friends and parents as good intentions and high ambitions collide in a pile-up with long-held secrets and lies.
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Borrrrrring
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2019-09-30
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The Family Upstairs
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Lisa Jewell
- Narrateur(s): Tamaryn Payne, Bea Holland, Dom Thornburn
- Durée: 9 h et 36 min
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Gifted musician Clemency Thompson is playing for tourists on the streets of Southern France when she receives an urgent text message. Her childhood friend, Lucy, is demanding her immediate return to London. It’s happening, says the message. The baby is back. Libby Jones was only six months old when she became an orphan. Now 25, she’s astounded to learn of an inheritance that will change her life. A gorgeous, dilapidated townhouse in one of London’s poshest neighborhoods has been held in a trust for her all these years. Now, it’s hers.
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A great read
- Écrit par JOY le 2019-11-28
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Evvie Drake Starts Over
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Linda Holmes
- Narrateur(s): Julia Whelan, Linda Holmes
- Durée: 9 h et 6 min
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In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and Evvie doesn’t correct them. Meanwhile, in New York City, Dean Tenney, former Major League pitcher and Andy’s childhood best friend, is wrestling with what miserable athletes living out their worst nightmares call the “yips”: he can’t throw straight anymore, and even worse, he can’t figure out why.
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Lovely Characters
- Écrit par Janean |Rosin le 2019-10-11
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The Testaments
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Margaret Atwood
- Narrateur(s): Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard, Mae Whitman, Autres
- Durée: 13 h et 18 min
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Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic - and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. More than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.
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A more satisfying ending to the Gilead story
- Écrit par Blythe le 2019-09-14
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Her Closest Friend: An absolutely gripping and heart-pounding psychological thriller
- Auteur(s): Clare Boyd
- Narrateur(s): Jane McDowell
- Durée: 11 h et 42 min
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Naomi and I are best friends. School runs, dog walks, a shoulder to cry on over a glass of wine - we’re inseparable. But now my husband has walked out, I need her more than ever. I know she will help me pick up the pieces. Because she knows about the lie I told to protect her. She knows how much I’ve sacrificed for this friendship. And she’d never let anyone hurt me. Would she?
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Great
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2019-06-21
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER!
“Honest, timely, and completely thrilling.” (Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine book pick)
Sloane, Ardie, Grace, and Rosalita have worked at Truviv, Inc., for years. The sudden death of Truviv’s CEO means their boss, Ames, will likely take over the entire company. Each of the women has a different relationship with Ames, who has always been surrounded by whispers about how he treats women. Those whispers have been ignored, swept under the rug, hidden away by those in charge. But the world has changed, and the women are watching this promotion differently. This time, when they find out Ames is making an inappropriate move on a colleague, they aren’t willing to let it go. This time, they’ve decided enough is enough.
Sloane and her colleagues’ decision to take a stand sets in motion a catastrophic shift in the office. Lies will be uncovered. Secrets will be exposed. And not everyone will survive. All of their lives - as women, colleagues, mothers, wives, friends, even adversaries - will change dramatically as a result.
"If only you had listened to us,” they tell us in Chandler Baker's Whisper Network, “none of this would have happened."
Praise for Whisper Network:
"Narrator Almarie Guerra projects the Southern accent and sassy tone that are needed in this audiobook.... Guerra captivates listeners by creating energetic portrayals.... This is an intense listen about women who triumph over injustice in the workplace." (AudioFile Magazine)
“Don't be fooled by its title. Whisper Network is a primal roar of a novel. Furiously funny and just plain furious, it's as timely as today's headlines and as big-hearted as your best work friend. A fantastic read.” (Riley Sager, New York Times best-selling author of The Last Time I Lied)
“Exciting and sprinkled with razor-sharp insights about what it is to be a woman today, Whisper Network is a witty and timely story that will make you cheer for sisterhood.” (Liv Constantine, USA Today best-selling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish)
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“Don't be fooled by its title. Whisper Network is a primal roar of a novel. Furiously funny and just plain furious, it's as timely as today's headlines and as big-hearted as your best work friend. A fantastic read.” (Riley Sager, New York Times best-selling author of The Last Time I Lied)
“Whisper Network manages to be provocative, timely, and a ripping good read: A murder mystery and a manifesto all rolled up into one. I couldn’t put it down.” (Janelle Brown, New York Times best-selling author of Watch Me Disappear)
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- Brenda Markin
- 2019-08-08
Makes you think & reflect.
Great story lines. Resonated with many experiences I've had and witnessed. Loved it. Highly recommend
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- Jo Canuck
- 2019-11-25
Enjoyed - well done
I really loved how she weaves in the challenges faced by working moms and women in today’s workplace. Well done - funny, yet poignant. All tied together with intrigue and suspense. Great job
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- Kay Jay
- 2019-11-09
Don't bother.
I wasn't a fan of this one at all. I felt strung along and by the end, I was left confused and let down.
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- Charlotte Osborne
- 2019-10-12
Could not get into it
I had heard this book was great, but 4 chapters in I still could not get into it. Found it was disjointed, confusing and boring.
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- Jessica
- 2019-09-14
More substance than you’d think
I think the author really gets the complicated world women have to navigate. The characters are flawed which make them much more relatable than they first seem. Overall, very thought-provoking and timely.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2019-09-03
Why are we whispering?
This clever, timely account of the insidious nature of sexual harassment and its ramifications makes for an enjoyable and thought-provoking experience. The girlfriend nature of the main characters rings true as does the challenges of work/life balance for women. For both women of means and those without, being a woman in the workforce and beyond comes with a different set of rules and limitations than experienced by men. The shared experiences of all the women in the novel exemplified this reality.
The pace and unexpected turns compelled me to listen at every opportunity. While some of the characters may have been a bit too stereotypic, they represented more than a single person.
I especially appreciated the epilogue. As Ms. Baker asserts, it's time to stop whispering. Whose secrets are we keeping anyway?
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-09-03
Not for me
Wasnt impressed with this read. I did however finish it. Just couldn't speak my interest though
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2019-08-15
A Good Story
Well performed and written. A poignant story about the challenges women face in today's corporate world and the importance of friendship.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-08-23
strong message
I enjoyed this book for the strong message it sent to women. Look out for each other and speak up! It was predictable, but enjoyable.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2019-08-17
I wasn't sure at the beginning but glad I finished
Highly recommend! Started off slow and was a bit confused by the characters, but then you get to know everyone and it gets so much better. Every woman should read it and pass it on to their girlfriend, sister, daughter! It's real! Make sure to listen right to the end.
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- Gretchen SLP
- 2019-07-18
👄👂🏻👁💪#MeToo-Era Suspense 💄👠💼💅🤳🏻
I realized about midway through this book that it was basically a mashup of two better books, Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies and Joshua Ferris’s amazing debut novel Then We Came to the End. I was also painfully aware at several points that for a suspense thriller, it’s more than a little lacking in suspense or thrills. The narrative isn’t linear; it jumps around in time a lot, which can be confusing. Also, the narrator isn’t great. She’s too chipper-chirpy, she mispronounces words (“uncarcacuristic”/ uncharacteristic), and she reads so slowly that I had to increase to 1.25x speed to keep from getting bored. Even so, the book is well worth your time and a credit for a few important reasons: it’s well-written, it’s coherent, and above all, it’s timely. Everyone, male or female, should read it. Women’s real-world workplace stories are just beginning to be told, and this book, which the author’s postscript makes clear was based on her own experiences as well as those of friends, acquaintances, clients and colleagues, makes a wonderful first salvo in the war for truth and justice in our current era of (all too often) “alternative facts.”
Grade: B+/A-
Bechdel test: Pass, albeit self-consciously (a character actually expresses concern at one point that she and her friends are in danger of failing the Bechdel test)
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- Kimberly
- 2019-07-03
I WANTED to like this book...
I feel like it I should have liked this book; I think it’s probably a timely and important book, but I just couldn’t. The plot was disjointed and convoluted, and it was packed with a huge cast of extremely unlikeable characters. I listened to the bitter end, but you don’t need to punish yourself. Buy something else....ANYTHING else...
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- C. Klein
- 2019-07-04
3 hours into the audiobook and I have to give up..
I really wanted to like this book but first the narration is SO bad that sometimes it is hard to follow which character is speaking. There are too many characters and my GOD is it bitter. What a shame, pass on this one.
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- JessB
- 2019-07-05
What to expect when starting this book--
This book is great, but also IMO you have to give it a while to set up. I struggled in the beginning to remember and figure out who each character was. (This could likely be remedied by reading it versus listening to it.) Once you get that down though (in the approximate first 1/4 of the book) you're golden and the story really starts moving along from there.
The interesting thing about this book is it isn't JUST a good mystery and well-written story, it strongly shows via both thoughts and events how working women in society are at a (oftentimes unconscious) disadvantage compared to men, the moment they start at any workplace. A few notes I have here personally... As a 38-year-old woman, I found many of the inner commentaries of the women regarding how women have to act at work, as right on the money. Once the comment was made that we have to essentially "act like men" at work and as the character went into detail why she felt that way, and upon really mulling that over, it dawned on me how true that IS. The comment was also made that if women have children their value to a company plummets, but you're also looked at differently if you DON'T have children, like you have given up children for career. Either way we lose. Women will identify with this; hopefully men will realize how hard we have it just by BEing female. It is what it is and we have to deal with it, but it doesn't make it fun or ok. The author's notes the last few minutes of the audiobook file made me realize why so many of her thoughts on being a working woman and the struggles of being hit on and what that can mean to a career, were so insightful. I didn't feel this was PUSHED on the reader during the story though; it was just a very important part of the storyline.
Separately, this book does a great job of pointing out that not just women that modern society deems "attractive" are subject to the advances or assaults of their male co-workers or superiors; and also it's not just women that have frequent interaction with these males either. After all, it was unveiled subtly that Artie was overweight; and another character (I won't spoil it) was not even a women who had a boss in that office but was subject to it in that office as well!-- it was kind of a wrong place at the wrong time scenario for her.
Now that those notes have been made... the story is really good. You are kept guessing at certain events, little clues are unveiled here and there, and it's entertaining once you have ascertained who each character is and what their role may be. I read a lot of psychological fiction and not that I'd put it in that category, but the twists and turns and unveiling of information was pretty excellent. I was trying to figure out what was really happening, quite a few times.
So overall, very recommended!
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- Alli
- 2019-07-06
Loved
I loved this book. It is funny, interesting, accurate, and relevant. The only thing was that the narrator mis-pronounced several words and that kept throwing me off. Also, if you are going to do a book with Southern characters, it would be nice to have a Southern narrator instead of trying to imitate the accent. It’s definitely would the read or listen
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- Sheila S
- 2019-07-06
Contrived tale
This was not an easy listen. I found it necessary to replay sections of the book (especially in the beginning) because I had lost track of the story or wasn't sure of which character was speaking. The ending seemed to be highly contrived--I felt like shrugging my shoulders before starting a more involving selection.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-07-03
FANTASTIC book!
This book was a riot and I loved every minute of it. Fast paced, well developed characters, razor sharp wit from Baker, and an edge of your seat story that kept me dialed-in from beginning to end. I can totally see this book becoming an anthem for working women in America. A modern version of 9 to 5 on steroids - easily my favorite book of 2019.
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- Shelly S
- 2019-07-12
Hard to get through
I found the first 40 chapters hard to get through. It was an intense bashing of every aspect of a woman’s interactions with others including motherhood. It felt as if the author was implying that every man is awful, every new mother treated awful, etc etc etc. I wanted to give up on reading this so many times, but then she would write one line that I could agree with or understand on its own. As a whole I felt that this book took every complaint or wrong doing any woman has ever experienced and gave it ALL to 4 characters. As a woman, I understand and agree that the stories told here have happened to some woman, but it had an “ALL women” feel to it that I disliked very much. I do not feel motivated as a woman to march with pink hats and a mega phone and I very much enjoy having male friends and hugs to and from my co-workers as an extrovert, so can not understand this ALL #MeToo mentality. BUT I do very much hope that our future generations will speak up instead of whisper and on that note I will 100% agree with the author that in specific instances action is required and repercussions must be made.
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- Book.Lover 1350
- 2019-07-09
It just didn’t work
I really wanted to like this book but it just didn’t work for me. As someone all too familiar with sexism in corporate world, I definitely find the subject important and long overdue, however the story was weak at best. I didn’t care for any of the characters and I just wanted the story to end. It also didn’t help that it was just wayyyy too long. I wouldn’t recommend it.
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- Laura Peden
- 2019-07-08
“Women’s greatest fear was violence. Men’s greatest fear was ridicule.”
𝙒𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧 𝙉𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 dives deep into a Harvey Weinstein-esque, #metoomovement storyline, with 4 women experiencing sexual harassment on different levels and in various aspects of their life. This topic happens to be important to me on a personal level. I was pursued & stalked by a man who held my future in his hands. I was lucky though; I spoke out & was believed & supported and he lost his job. It doesn’t work out like that for many other women out there though. That’s why this book is so important.
Many women feel the need strive for perfection in all areas of life just to prove their worth; their equality. From the makeup, hair routine to being able to strive for succession in the workplace without being labeled as a (fill in the blank). It’s exhausting. We need to be able to do these things without feeling shame for it. If I want to doll myself up it should be because it makes me feel good or because makeup is a creative outlet, playing with color and symmetry. Not because it’s expected of me, a norm of what a woman should look like to fit ridiculous standards. Luckily there are generations of women that just do not give a f*** anymore. Period. End of story. Enough is enough. Basic human rights, respect and equality are demanded. We’ll take evidence. We will change laws & enact new ones. We will trap you if necessary. Then we will prosecute you and punish you until it seeps in that we will not back down and we’ll die first before going backwards. So get used to it.
I appreciate that the story includes a very much younger generation. Will history repeat itself? Will the fight we’re fighting now help stop the cycle from repeating itself? Can standing up and speaking out change the patterns? Can we raise our daughters/granddaughters/etc to expect equality as a standard?
Can this movement enact change? I bet you the men in power of today think twice before they make ignorant comments or force physical advancements on the women of today. I bet some are even starting to check their thoughts and behavior patterns to make sure they’re not repeating usual behaviors. Some will test the limits to see what they can get away with, without getting busted until they’re eventually busted. Life’s not perfect, it’s messy and will always be complicated but it doesn’t mean we don’t forge ahead and try.
I sincerely hope people give this book a chance. It won’t be for everyone. It’s a slow-building mystery, not a thriller. Portions of the book have interviews with witnesses similar to Big Little Lies. This one is definitely going on my favorites shelf. I highly recommend!
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