Year of the Monsoon
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Year of the Monsoon
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Narrated by:
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Lisa Larsen
About this listen
Leisa Yeats has always defined herself by the things that are important to her - a good family, a loving relationship, and a meaningful job working with kids. Life is good. But within a span of a few weeks, all of that changes. She’s always known she was adopted, but newly revealed lies and secrets kept by her parents make her question everything she thought she knew about her beginnings. Her 10-year relationship with her partner, Nan, is unexpectedly on shaky ground when she discovers that Nan, too, has kept a secret from her all these years.
Suddenly, everything Leisa believed - about her life, about the people around her, about herself - everything is turned upside down, and nothing is as she thought it was. Pulling away to try and sort things out, Leisa reaches out to the wrong people and, in the process, nearly loses herself. Buffeted at every turn by storms that shake the very foundation of her world, Leisa must figure out whom and what she can hold fast to as the winds of change blow.
©2010, 2014 Caren J. Werlinger (P)2019 Audible, Inc.What listeners say about Year of the Monsoon
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
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- 16-12-2020
A difficult story
This is a story of relationships and what constitutes family. It touched on emotional and difficult issues but I can’t help but think the story offered up too many complex issues any one of which are a novel on their own right.
Character development also left much to be desired. Overly stereotypical and lacking nuisance. The secondary characters providing sage advice and context were a little too vanilla, popping up at just the right moment to provide perfect insight.
Finally I could live with the constant time shifts if only they didn’t run into each other, seemingly without the narrator taking a breath. This may have been an editing issue rather than poor narration but it was a distraction which took you out of the story as you tried to readjust. A simple 3 second gap would have sufficed.
Overall a good story but in need of a strong editor.
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