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Isabella Moon

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I listen to a lot of audiobooks on CD in my car. The story was just barely interesting enough for me to want to see how it ended. Plus, I hate paying good money for an audio book that I don't finish. But in the actual end, it wasn't worth it and I wished I had given up after the first CD. I felt it was poorly written - and even worse for the audio format because of the way the story jumped from present to past and from this character to that character without clarity. There was no clear point of view and I felt like I was being bounced around all over the place without any clear guidance of where my frame of reference for character and story should be. There was really no likeable character in the story. Maybe the author was trying to create complex characters, but it was too much. I didn't care about anyone in the story - not even the supposed "heroine." I especially hate plots about supposedly smart characters who do seriously idiotic things just to move a plot point. This book was full of that. Technically speaking, I felt it was poorly read. The Kentucky accents weren't very good. The southern accent was worse and the characterizations of the men's voices were positively annoying. It passed the time on a long drive, but just barely, and I was sorry I wasted my time on it after it was over. All in all, it was a major disappointment.