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The Whip [Audiobook/audio Cd] [Unabridged] (2012)

by Karen Kondazian(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0615808727 (ISBN13: 9780615808727)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Deyan Audio Services

review 1: This was one of the most poorly written books I've ever read. The embellishment of the 'facts' known about Charley Parkhurst which primarily came from newspaper articles including her obituary from period papers of the era, was simply unbelievable and far fetched. The use of frequent profanity coming from the character when she was merely a girl living in an orphanage was completelye unbelievable, as was most of the profanity scattered throughout the book. I could barely force myself to finish this book and if it had not been assigned for my book club, I would not have read past page 20. All 7 members of the book club felt the same as I did. Don't waste your time on it!
review 2: I wanted to immerse myself into an interesting story of a stagecoach whip who w... moreas a woman impersonating a man, but the book's distracting elemental writing style read like a pre-teen fiction. I would not recommend it to preteens because of the repeated foul language (lots of F's), along with rapes, lynchings, and more rapes. I did not like the book's mini chapters that were 2-4 pages long (child-like abbreviated character and plot development), but after reading more about the creation of this book, I found out that it started out as a screen play. As I read it, I thought it read like a trashy soap opera and then I looked at who wrote it-a screen and stage actor-which made sense from the sensational added plot lines. Although the premise of the story could be really engaging, the elemental writing style was annoying and distracted me as I was reading. I would stop reading to notice that sentences next to each other had identical structures. I thought the author's voice was not very authentic for the period. I looked into the documented story of Charlie Parkhurst and found that the author embellished major parts of the story, which did not sit well with my desire to learn more about Charlie's actual history. I was surprised that the book received four different awards (publisher awards for promotion purposes) and that NPR had an interview with the author about the book. Did National Public Radio not read it before they reviewed it to see that The Whip is written on an elementary school level? No one in my book club liked it either. They did not like the writing style. Although the story was engaging in it's interesting general main character, the hyper-embellished story and the distracting writing style left a great deal to be desired. less

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