Rea Keech

I received a copy of this audiobooks as part of Library Thing Early Reviewers.
This book was... fine. It was time well spent listening although there were definitely some parts in which the tone and inflection of the audiobook reader took me out of the story a bit with the way they did character voices. The story itself was predictable at times and does end somewhat happily but overall just doesn't have anything new or exciting to say in the genre of historical fiction or about the time period of setting. Still, the book was overall enjoyable and perhaps someone else may find a greater appreciation for it than I did. 3 stars (average)… (more)

I received this digital audio book from the Early Reviewer program. Uncertain Luck, set in Japan during the Viet Nam war, tells the story of a young Japanese woman who meets an American GI by chance and falls in love. Concurrent with the story of their love match runs the story of her mother's death by natural causes and her father's disappearance when he traveled to Tokyo to protest the war. The writing of the book is uninspiring and the story line completely predictable. Some of book is lazily written, giving details where none are needed (as if to fill out a quota of words?) and stating contradictory information. For example, the writer says her father could not understand what was being said in English and then one line later says her father was able to follow along.
The author reads the story and his voice is not pleasing to hear. His attempts to speak in the voice of a character are poorly done. By the time I was half way through the book, I began thinking about the authors I enjoy and how I wished I was spending my time with them instead.… (more)