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Magic Hour

Written by: Kristin Hannah
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
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Publisher's Summary

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes an incandescent story about the resilience of the human spirit, the triumph of hope, and the meaning of home.

In the rugged Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest - nearly a million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this old growth forest, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past.

Having retreated to her western Washington hometown after a scandal left her career in ruins, child psychiatrist Dr. Julia Cates is determined to free the extraordinary little girl she calls Alice from a prison of unimaginable fear and isolation. To reach her, Julia must discover the truth about Alice’s past - although doing so requires help from Julia’s estranged sister, a local police officer. The shocking facts of Alice’s life test the limits of Julia’s faith and strength, even as she struggles to make a home for Alice - and for herself.

“One of [Kristin Hannah’s] most compelling and riveting novels.” - Booklist

©2006 Kristin Hannah. (P)2005 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

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Great Story, not my favourite narrator

Great story and characters, and writing is beautiful as always with KH. The “voices” were a little off...maybe it was just me??

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The narration is terrible.

This could be a good book but I can’t get past the horrible narration. The voices given to the two main female characters present them as weak damsels in distress, with minimal intelligence. So disappointed.

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Horrible, irritating narration

Narration was unbearable. Seemed like a great story but I couldn’t tolerate it for more than a few chapters. Very disappointed.

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Narrator ruined it for me.

I've been trying to get through this one for 3 weeks or so now. I've made a note to avoid anything narrated by Suzanne Toren. The mixing was also all over the place - Ellie's voice was like a whisper and Peanut almost always startled/deafened me. Not a good time.

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Awful narrator

The narrator ruined the book. Every time she voiced peanut she was shouting and sounded like an old timey gangster. I couldn’t even finish the book.

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So so

The story was not too bad overall maybe needed a little bit more excitement or zing seem to drag out a bit but the performance of the story that was read was scary when she made her voices into different people characters in the book she sounded demon like I do not like her performance might’ve been a better story if somebody else read it

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Really enjoyed this story.

This is a book with high and low emotion. You are captured from the beginning to the end. I truly didn’t want it to end.

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Narrator

This narrator was very and to the point of bring aggravating. At some point I wonder if she didn’t have a stutter. I will never listen to another book narrated by her.

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likely better to actually read the book

overall I like the concept of the storyline but had a hard time listening to the narrator and the various voices she tried to create. maybe books with baby talk are just better off read than listened to!

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Very Interesting

Kristin Hannah is one of my very favorite authors and this book is no exception..... but the narrator is tough to listen to. The only reason I'm finishing listening to it is because the story is good.

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