brilliant storyline,

I loved this book. characters, story all brilliant. roll on the next credit to read another one.

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regional context?

terrible regional context. american English should have been no where near this story. irish girl, reared as Russian living among Russian mob in UK. in relation ship with french/American/Mexican only his dialogue should have had some possibilities of American inflection. as for attempts at accents though often muddled as reader forgot which character she was reading and a female American accent often appeared especially when it was aparent reader became tired. Accents were uk/Mexican/Russian equivalent of a leprechaun version of an Irish accent as portrayed in Hollywood. bad hurts the ears and did twice cause me to consider giving up. had to purchase physical copy of book to follow along. other wise would have given up compleatly. being able to do an accent for a moment fudges not equate to the complexities of different genders,ages and left no room for articulating feeling of characters would have been much better to read in reader own accent for all characters but better include inflections. it very much took away from the story. the ending was a bad muddled combination over telling like writer just trough his note book in and then a rushed ending in the epilogue. other details like the house keeper in Charlie House could have been better utilised or left out altogether. and Andrus Charlie's brother was he a necessary character. the internal external battle of feeling could have been written cleaner and have some uneasily pages remover. story needs the benefit of a good editor. it is not sufficient to say this summary is written in American English when the correct regional language or languages as story requires shoes the depth of good writing and editing and can replace unessary characters or story lines. and still tell and excellent story. in a nut shell. story has good bones but feel like a draft would love to reread in a year or two when a good editor has worked with the author to polish into a completely well written piece. remembering the reading performance needs to help not hinder the enjoyment of the book. as it stands it took far too long to listen to as what should have been compelling because a great book to fall asleep to. not what the author i assume possibly was among for. hopefully part 2 is better with I wont try so hard to finish no mater how compeked I am to see how Blaire life continues. ps other niggling points, characters names are very out of place regionally. if you go to trouble to describe list of cars use them or don't refer to them at all. is it not sufficient to say he gave her the keys to his car as she climbed in turned the ignition and the powerfull engine of the range rover roared as its large wheels spun in action as her small foot effertsly power the acceleration as the drove out past his line of impressive car collection. you can mention status with out even that much detail. there are some other niggles sadly. like I said I'd love to re read after its been re worked.

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