![]() ![]() ![]() This was a very conversation-oriented book, and ultimately, it just didn't work for me. ![]() I kept plugging along, hoping it would become better, and there were definitely moments where I became very interested in the characters and what was going on, but for the most part, I had to really force myself to pay attention. But when I started listening, and it may have been the combination of the narrator and the story, but I had trouble keeping plugged in with endless discussions about politics, philosophy, and religion, The narrator also had this weird way of putting pauses in the middle of his sentences that ended up being more distracting than effective. Thrown on top of that were vampires and magicians. The time period of the French Revolution, the issue of slavery in Britain as well as in the US and France, and well-known public figures of the time, like Robespierre all sounded great. ![]() It didn't really inspire any emotions in me, which is pretty unfortunate. It didn't make me mad, it didn't make me sad, it didn't make me glad. My biggest complaint is that it was boring. 2.5 stars I expected this to be so much better than it actually was. ![]()
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