Easy Listen

It was an easy listen, and I liked the narrator. I just wish I enjoyed the book more, as the Practical Magic movie is one of my all time favourite films. However, this was one of the rare exceptions of the movie being better than the book.

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bad narrator

The book is a good story but the narrator voices and accents are terrible

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Magical, beautifully read and written

I have listened to all the Practical Books but kept this one to last as I didn’t want them to end and loved the film so much. It didn’t disappoint. Absolutely lovely and magical as are all Alice Hoffmann books.

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Couldn’t get through it

Enjoyed the prequel but this one I couldn’t get to the end. Wasn’t a single character I cared about (okay maybe the rabbit).
Narrator did well enough but the story didn’t work for me.

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excellent

a magical tale read very well. I had seen the film many times, but this book contours up a magical image.

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mixed feelings

I really wanted to like this story however I found the pace too slow (nothing to do with the narration, simply how plot progresses and characters develop). Secondly, at times because of this slowness I found myself bored and questioning why there was soo much detail which seemed unnecessary at times. I could put all that aside however if the story itself was worthwhile and amazing. unfortunately, I find it to be a toxic message of beauty gets the guy, beauty gets the happily ever after and pretty much every page has something about someone's good looks on it. I don't know why this series is so popular, honestly, it's nothing like the movie which, in this instance, is a rare case of the film is better. I am an avid fantasy reader, watcher and, player and this just was disappointing and very aged. The book goes steadily downhill with each chapter. I do not recommend.

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absolutely fab as always

such a good book! definitely one I'll be listening to again and again... :)

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Dull, bland, then pointlessly crude

Really dull book. I thought about giving up on it as nothing happens to get the story moving at any pace but kept going as i only had a couple of hours left of it. It was an effort to keep my attention on it but then it just got really smutty and going on about unhealthy sex in crass tones. There had been a bit of swearing and mentions of sex but nothing much until this. It was so off putting that i returned it without even bothering to finish it.
There is nothing wrong with adult content, when done well and in the tone of the rest of the book but this was just thrown in there, unnecessarily protracted, and sounding completely out of place.

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Practically no magic

The storyline in the movie of this book was way better. It was an ok listen but quite an average story

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Slow to start

Took me a while to get into the story but then read the whole series

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