Read Neanderthal Seeks Human instead

I expected to like this book as much as Neanderthal Seeks Human, sadly I didn't. The two main characters became more and more irritating and annoying as the storyline progressed and some of the plot lines were just ridiculous. By the end I just didn't care.

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Get over yourself!

Troubled grief riddled child/adulthood story. The internal dialogue in this story went on and on. I know this is how it can be I real life the negatives on repeat in your mind overruling thoughts and reality but my sympathy waned into irritation.
Loved Nick, what a lovely person it's a shame the humour/charisma he's supposed to have didn't translate to the audio book, frankly nothing he said was either funny or witty...
It was very well narrated. I had an issue with him having an Italian accent having lived all of his life in America??? However, her Italian dialogue was unoffensive to listen to.

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2nd book

This is my least favourite of the series. Elizabeth is annoying & you just want to hit her. As a character I found her the hardest to like but saying that it is still a good story. The performance is okay except for the Italian accent which I found irritating. There is a fault on this version which means you get the lift scene then the apartment followed by the lift scene again with more detail. It is freaky but doesn't spoil the story.

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Disappointing for Penny Reid

This book was odd, it almost felt as though it was written by a different author, the story & narrative just didn’t flow & engage me as her other books have.

I finished it, begrudgingly, because it’s part of a series & having already finished the fabulous Winston brothers series (plus the spin off books), I thought I should get on to the Knitting in the City series so that I could hear the start of Ashley’s story, albeit not until book 4, which is where I’m at now.
As another reviewer stated, the main character was very irritating & I couldn’t really care less about what happened to her or her fella, this was partly down to the writing, but also the narration, it was so morose & melancholic, I found that increasing the speed to 1.2x or 1.3x gave her voice more inflection & also took a couple of hours off the total time - bonus!
The repeated chapter 22 (albeit differing versions) was just annoying, confusing & in my mind a waste of time, & for the first time ever I forwarded through a large part. There were also other repetitions (of conversations), as much of the timeline coincides with the previous book(s).

As soon as I moved on to book 3, & now 4, I felt like I was back in a world of words created by Penny & also surrounded by the wonderful narration of Joy Nash - if you’re into this series, then it has its place in terms of telling the knitters stories, but it’s way below the usual high standard.

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Great hero makes this book worth reading

It’s really hard to write a review of this book because I felt annoyed and frustrated at the h for most of the book, but still could not stop listening!

Firstly, I must make a special mention of the narration. It was brilliant. Perfect. With an Italian H, the narrator had her work cut out for her but she managed to make him sound sooooooo sexy. It was probably her narration that kept me listening where perhaps, if I had been reading myself, I may have thrown my kindle at a wall.

The H was fabulous. For once we have a man who was not afraid to freely admit his feelings. The H admits his love early on which is an unusual plot device which could have backfired, but works well. But the h was truly irritating. The death of both her mother and her first love in her teenage years had really twisted her views on love, romance and her ability to have any sort of meaningful relationship. Which was annoying because she was a competent, fully trained ER Doctor. Although by the end of the book she did finally admit she needed therapy, I though that a woman of her intelligence would have come to this realisation a lot sooner. But of course then we would not have had this book, which was, I suppose, about her coming to terms with her past, and acknowledging both her emotional issues, and her inability to deal with them.

I have to mention the brilliant portrayal of the h’s profession. This was the most realistic writing of a career that I have read for a long time. In this story, as an ER Doctor, the h never took time off, never called in sick, was never late for work and, even the day after being shot at, only missed one shift and went to work later that evening because, as we all know, in the real world, as an ER Doctor in an overworked and understaffed profession, if you don’t go to work, people will suffer. Even at the very end of the book she could not suddenly take time off to fix her love life. It had to fit in with her shifts, and her shifts as an ER Doctor ran through the entire book – as they would in real life. I loved this depiction of the time and devotion that comes with being a Doctor in this field, and her adamant determination to go to work regardless of what else was happening in her life made her a lot easier to like, even when she was annoying me with her emotional constipation!

So, although half way through the book I was thinking this would be my last Penny Reid audiobook, by the end of it I was determined to download the rest of the series. Special mention has to go to the epilogue. It was the first time we had the H’s POV and it gave us a true feeling for the intensity of his emotions.

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laughed out loud a lot

Loved it.
another great book in the series. The girls from the knit group made me laugh out loud again.

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Narrator and female protagonist are both annoying

Why does Nico have an Italian accent when English is his first language? The narrator can't even do an Italian accent- its so bad, it constantly takes me out of the story.
On top of that, the main character is awful. I couldn't care less what happened to her and less than half way through, I started to fast forward through large sections of the story. The others in this series are way better. Not sure what happened here.

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