Thicker Than Water

By: Michael Edwin Q.

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

When her aunt who raised her dies, sixteen-year-old Alana goes to live with her uncle on another plantation, the plantation her deceased parents lived on. After months of inquiries, she questions if they're really dead. She sets off to discover the past...her past.

Must read

The most interesting story ever , really enjoyed this book . Must read I plan on reading another one of his books

Dramatic

Kind of “ soap operary” , not realistic for the antebellum south. But a good dramatic saga . A good work of dramatic fan fiction

Good story, not so great reading

The a I voice was annoying. It showed no emotion. This made it difficult to connect with the story.

Unrealistic, even for fiction

First, the AI narration is awful. It made it difficult to try to get into the book.

The story itself was very unrealistic. Too many aspects were modern, and the timelines in the story didn’t flow, it just felt absurd. If the story had been set post-slavery with sharecroppers parts of it would have at least been a little more conceivable.

Everyone is not meant to tell stories such as this. Even in a “historical fiction”, the struggles and truths of the enslaved should never be romanticized or made to seem less cruel than it was.

virtual voice a turnoff

virtual voice may be good and work with some titles but reading a book involving slavery times a total turn off. I've listened to books by non Black readers and it was passable because they at least had a clue and could put inflection for meaning in the right places. after 10 minutes, kept fast forwarding long enough so I could do a review.
story may have been a good one but I'll never know