One Last Hope

A Voyage to Escape Nazi Germany

By: Roberta Kagan

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

On May 13th 1939, five strangers boarded the MS St. Louis, Promised a future of safety away from Nazi Germany and Hitler’s third Reich unbeknownst to them they were about to embark upon a voyage built on secrets, lies, and treachery. Sacrifice, love, life, and death hung in the balance as each fought against fate but the voyage was just the beginning.

couldn't finish ... bad virtual narrator

I would have liked to finish book for the story was good. I just don't like the narration

Great story. Poor narration.

The story was captivating, well researched and informative. It’s a shame that it was done a disservice with cheap AI narration. Words were mispronounced, inflection was wrong. Difficult to understand at times due to this. Suggest that after taking the time to write an important historical fiction that author invests in live, professional narrators.

AI narrator (virtual voice)

AI Narrator lacks authentic emotion, stilted voice. It was an unfortunate choice for a Holocaust story.

How they learn to survive and adapted to their new way of living their lives.

I was not happy with the reading of the novel. although it was clear it did not have what a human reader brings to the reading.

Poor pronunciation, Interesting story

Like many of Kagan’s books, there are some discrepancies in the stories. In this story, it says Alana’s mother made sure she couldn’t conceive. But she did have two children later when she married. Alana’s story is compelling and disturbing, Drawing deeply on our sympathies.

The problem I have with some of the readers, in many books, is they do not know how to pronounce Yiddish. They should have been coached on pronunciation and have proper research into Jewish customs.

Aside from this, the story, especially the history, is interesting. The AI reader fell short to me from a real human voice. In this story, the AI reader missed pronounced many words and lacked a human response to some words and ideas and phrasing.

Please don’t use AI readers.

Keep writing stories about WWII. We need to keep this history alive more than ever.

Thank you for this book.