Just the tragedy that everyone in the story goes through makes you wonder how that much could happen to so many intertwined lives.
But when there were dialogs with other characters she did good with the voices.ĭid you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry? The book was mainly from the writers point of view so other voices were limited. What about Jennifer O'Donnell’s performance did you like? Even though I couldn't stop crying and wanted to stop listening I had to know how it ended.
But the story did pull me in and I couldn't put it down. Not my normal cup of tea and I did get a little frustrated at first with the storytelling monologue type of reading. Where does The Color of Heaven rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far? There's more, but this awful novel doesn't deserve any more of my time - and NONE of yours. in a novel that had enough "unbelievable" to qualify as science fiction. The Cora/Peter/Matt subplot was much too long and much too contrived to be believable. Even if you accept the "miracle" part, her story line was full of the unbelievable and I started to get a hint of what was coming when Sara's perfect, amazing, 10-year fairy-tale, he's-my-best-friend, flawless marriage to perfect Michael went completely to hell and it was ALL HIS FAULT! 4. Instead of working through the challenges and mysteries her main character faced in the real world, the author did the "Poof! Magic will fix it!" miracle solution. But when the whole frozen lake thing began, I felt thoroughly manipulated. Sara's year following Megan's death seemed correctly imagined. The story started strong and the scenes during Megan's illness (when I could hear the whispering!) were very moving. She could begin with slight differences, but the voices all quickly returned to her "baseline" man and her "baseline" woman. Michael sounded like Matt who sounded like Peter who sounded like. Sara sounded like Cora who sounded like Jen who sounded like Sara. (I've since apologized to my IPod.) I suppose that might have been OK if she'd at least had a nice variety of voices. Then someone "else" would speak in a normal tone and I'm frantically reaching for the volume to back it down to avoid permanent hearing loss. So I'd stop what I was doing, wipe my hands if working, turn up the volume and go back to work. and her voice would get softer and softer and softer until the words would begin to run together like a low frequency vibration, rather than actual speech. I listen when I'm doing other things - driving, cooking, gardening, etc. Seriously! She breaks into whispering at key scenes. I don't know where to start to explain why this is so bad.
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