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A review by missflyer
The Pretender by K.A. Applegate
5.0
October 12, 2022 audiobook read:
Full review here.
Will Tobias’ books ever stop stabbing me through the heart? Not when I read them to myself, and now, apparently, not when Michael Crouch reads them to me either. Unrelatedly, I like how he did Jara Hamee and Ket Halpek’s voices.
These two quotes especially struck me, in not just their meaning this time, but also in Michael Crouch’s delivery:
Every human – Jake, Rachel, Marco, Cassie, all humans – kind of lives on that edge between savage and saint. And the thing is that sometimes when you get pushed you do have to push back. And other times, you have to turn the other cheek. […] I guess the trick is to figure out when to do which thing. When to fight, when to let up. A balancing act. And even if I went back to being human, that balancing act wouldn’t go away.
Maybe realizing that should have made me feel bad. But it didn’t. Just made me feel human. – page 119-120
See, I had a duty, too. And who is there to remind you that what you want for yourself is less important than doing what is necessary and right? – page 150-151
Full review here.
Will Tobias’ books ever stop stabbing me through the heart? Not when I read them to myself, and now, apparently, not when Michael Crouch reads them to me either. Unrelatedly, I like how he did Jara Hamee and Ket Halpek’s voices.
These two quotes especially struck me, in not just their meaning this time, but also in Michael Crouch’s delivery:
Every human – Jake, Rachel, Marco, Cassie, all humans – kind of lives on that edge between savage and saint. And the thing is that sometimes when you get pushed you do have to push back. And other times, you have to turn the other cheek. […] I guess the trick is to figure out when to do which thing. When to fight, when to let up. A balancing act. And even if I went back to being human, that balancing act wouldn’t go away.
Maybe realizing that should have made me feel bad. But it didn’t. Just made me feel human. – page 119-120
See, I had a duty, too. And who is there to remind you that what you want for yourself is less important than doing what is necessary and right? – page 150-151