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Narrated by:
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Sarah Mollo-Christensen
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By:
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Tijan
About this listen
Dan's survived a lot. Her mother died. Her two sisters loathed her. One aunt hated her. The other was strangely distant, but the worst storm was being dumped by her childhood best friend/high school boyfriend/first love for her younger sister. There went the one person who was hers and with that, the main reason she stuck around. So, she left for 10 years. But now she's back, and nothing's the same.
With help from Jonah Bannon, a reformed - kind of - bad boy she remembers from high school, Dani uncovers family secrets that have spanned generations. And along with those, she's about to face the biggest storm of her life. Only this time, she may not survive.
©2016 Tijan Meyer (P)2017 TantorA deep family story
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Coming Home
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really good easy listen
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Childish
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Emotional!
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such an amazing story full of emotion.
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Perfect narration
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Loved it
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This is a small town tale, involving a family with generations and layers of secrets: Two generations of three sisters, who for whatever reason just don’t get on. There’s a lot going on, romance with Jonah, the town bad boy turned hero, the tension between Dani and her remaining sister Julia who is now engaged to Jake her ex, the tension between Dani and her favourite aunt May, the tension and lack of closure between Dani and Jake (and can I just say here ewww! All three sisters Jake? Seriously dude?) and on top of all that the various secrets, who is their father? Who is their grandfather? What happened to their grandmother? Why did Dani never feel part of the family? Also underneath all that is a town mystery, regarding developers and waterways.
What’s poor about this story is the happenstance and coincidence that drives a lot of the narrative, people turning up in random places when they shouldn’t really be there. It’s poor plotting - there are other ways to work people into a story, and in some cases it was a little unbelievable. Also as with a lot of Tijin’s stories, there’s a hint of danger that never really comes to fruition, but just disappears. There was a lot of that in this book, not least the jump at the end from the final chapter where everything was a disaster, and the sunny epilogue. All seemed a bit rushed.
What’s great about this book are the characters, who are all flawed to a greater or lesser degree (except Jonah who is just perfectly swoon able!), yet there are no real villains (apart from Jenny possibly but she’s so inconsequential as not to matter). Dani is lost when we meet her, suffering imho from survivors guilt, which makes her do a terrible thing to Boon, but even though I did feel terribly sorry for Boon, it is true that he and Dani knew so little about each other they were not the right people to be with each other. He was a sweet guy though and I would have liked for him to have his own story. The disaster at the end was exciting, and came in waves (pun intended), and kept me on the edge of my seat (even if it did all seem to stop abruptly.)
I think this might be an early work of Tijan, and I think that shows in the plotting, and the fact the characters all seemed a bit immature for 30 somethings. But it’s a good listen, as the narrator did a really good job of portraying what was in the page to bring it alive. Worth a listen.
A melancholy tale.
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Normally I love books that have a bit of mystery/twists and turns. This one however just switched me off. The romance between Johnar and Dani also seemed to have something missing. It's almost like the writer tried to cram too much into the character when really it was unnecessary.
Think the major disaster at the end and the whole tsunami back story was a bit too much on top of her complex family back story.
But maybe this is just me because I wasn't feeling it for the book. Read some of Tijans other books and enjoyed them. Thought narrator was good too.
Just didn't really feel it for characters
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