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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I have gotten to the point that I don't stick with a book that I don't like. Of course, the vast majority of audiobooks that I buy are books I've already read, so there aren't many that I don't like, but there have been a couple where I just moved on to the next book and didn't look back.
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Originally Posted by CRussel
I'm with you on this. My time is more valuable than anything else associated with that bad book, and the best solution is to abandon it. I've had a couple recently. In one case, just not a book I wanted to read. In another, a reader I just didn't want to listen to. There's still weeks worth of continuous, 24 hour a day reading in my library, so if a bad one comes along? I delete it and move on. If it's an Audible book, I get a refund. If it's a library book? I stop reading it.
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Can't do it. I especially can't do it with an audiobook. And with anything in the mystery/suspense/thriller category, I willingly go along with for the ride and suspend disbelief in the hope that eventually all will be satisfactorily resolved. Usually, it is.
With
Find Me, the initial premise and the unfolding of the plot were interesting enough that I wanted to see where the author was going (multiple POV--the maybe-or-maybe-not-dead Rosa's diary, the grieving boyfriend's hallucinations/sightings/search). It wasn't until the last part of the book, when the third of the three narrators took a prominent part, that I began to actively hate the book. By that time, I was too invested to stop (plus I had nothing else unread on my mp3 player!)
And now I know that I definitely gave this author (J.S. Monroe, aka Jon Stock) a chance and I will not be sucked in by his next book, no matter how tempting it may sound. So maybe I wasted a few extra hours now, but I am saving myself from wasting time later.