Abrupt ending too much f language

The story ends abruptly, as if the author felt as though he had written enough and had grown impatient for a payment. In Axis of Time, the author has a leading young (at least at the beginning of the series) attractive female with a narcissistic flaw that hurts her relationships. She also swears constantly using the f word in almost each scene. Same with A Girl in Time, but worse. I enjoy time travel, but agree with the advice given by Eric Flint to aspiring authors: use swearing judiciously and the f word only rarely. The frequency in this book indeed becomes very tiresome and doesn't add to the story.

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The Trump fascism drivel took me out of the story

The Trump fascism drivel took me out of the story. We get it, the author likes Hillary.

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Gripping

From beginning to end -this book takes you and doesn't let go. Vanessa Johansson is absolutely brilliant in putting the right emotion, tenor and spot-on narration that accompanies John Birmingham's genius storytelling skills. One question: when is Book 2 in this series happening?

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John Birmingham has lost his touch

This book is a major disappointment. Birmingham's vision of an America under Trump reads like a propaganda leaflet, rolled up in a ( barely) science fiction romance. He should stick to the racist, antisemitic politics of his homeland.

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Great story, until it became political

I usually give five stars to all but the worst audio books, but this one is an exception. It was a great and engaging story until chapter twenty. Then the author's hatred of Trump over shadowed the story itself. Chapters twenty to twenty-five might as well have been a propaganda hit piece. I listen to escape the stupid political PR spinning, but even here I get it mixed in to whatever I'm listening to anyway. :( Making the fact that Trump actually won the election after she left the timeline as the major evidence of being in a different timeline is just troll logic from an otherwise very intelligent woman.

I'm on chapter twenty seven as I write this, and hopefully past it now. But it has forever colored my opinion of this story. I will not be telling others this is a good story.

Edited later; The political propaganda eased off after that, mostly. But I checked the reviews of a couple other books by this author. John has apparently been having a problem with that for almost a decade now. :( Tragic loss of potential.

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garbage the book started slow AND became liberal 1

the book started off slow and then became liberal crap at the halfway point. I bought this book on Amazon only so that I could write it so that people would have avoided because it sucked so bad.

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A bit disjointed and lacking how or why

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

Meh....SO SO. It felt like something was missing, which, given that it was a time travel book meant the reason of why, how and purpose was blandly overlooked other than knowing there was a protagonist who wanted to see his daughter and a woman who wanted to get back....It lacked a background of the villains and why or who they were.

Has A Girl in Time turned you off from other books in this genre?

no.

Any additional comments?

The whole political spin on it was a turn off, necessary and a waste of words.

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fun read.

I enjoyed the book but I am not a fan of open-ended book endings. now I want a sequel but since this book was written six years ago that ain't going to happen.

Contemporary time travel

I have read other works by this author and enjoyed this different take on a romantic time adventure. Some interesting places were visited and unusual characters . it stands alone at present.

I loved the story

Being the book was released in 2017, not sure why it was decided to have Hillary as the President. I guess the author is a Democrat