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Battle Scars

By: Meghan O'Brien
Narrated by: Amanda Goodyear
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Ray McKenna returns from the war in Iraq to find that she had attained unwanted celebrity status back home. As the only surviving American soldier of a well-publicized hostage crisis, she is the center of attention at a time when all she wants is solitude. Struggling to overcome the fear and anxiety that plague her, she relies on her psychiatric therapy dog Jagger to help her through the vicious symptoms of PTSD. Veterinarian Dr. Carly Warner hasn't yet figured out how to open her heart to the possibility of falling in love again after the death of her longtime partner. When Ray McKenna walks into the North Coast Veterinary Clinic with Jagger, she and Carly begin a friendship that takes them both by surprise. Brought together by their shared love of dogs, Ray and Carly discover that they are both capable of moving forward, if only they are brave enough to try.

©2009 Meghan O'Brien (P)2016 Bold Strokes Books Inc Contemporary Contemporary Romance Literature & Fiction Romance Heartfelt
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I have now read this book on multiple occasions - it’s safe to say it’s easily my favourite Meghan O’Brien book and high up on my list of All Time Favourites.

The story majestically sets the scenes for our two main characters and artfully intertwines their lives, both of whom are recovering from extremely traumatic histories.

My only criticism would be the voice actress’s performance, which was dismal. I felt my eyes twitch on numerous occasions due to the extremely poor skill and devastating vocal interpretation of each and every time a character spoke.

Fortunately, Meghan O’Brien’s story telling is so good you can nearly, kind of, almost shove aside the terrible performance.

Worth a listen. Most definitely worth a read.

My Favourite Meghan O’Brien Book

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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

Yes and No.

This story is one of my favourites, I've read the book several times. So when it became available on audible, I happily bought it to listen to as I walk.

It is seriously the worst narration I have ever listened to - and I got my kids to record their picture books when they were 6! It's not just the narrator's voice that was bad, the audio editing is terrible too.

What did you like best about this story?

I love the in depth characters. The reality of PTSD and anxiety is shown beautifully.

How could the performance have been better?

It would have been better with a decent narrator and good sound engineering.

Great story, terrible narration

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I’m a big fan of Megan’s audiobooks, but what possessed her to choose this narrator. She’s a mix of Rose O’Donnell and somebody trying to act and not making it at all. i’m sure another narrator could’ve actually grasped the small nuances each character had, but this narrator lost everything and made it clumsy. The story was good. It was even great but listening to this narrator was so so painful. I just kept wishing somebody else would say the words so I could really enjoy it. I’m sorry Megan, but this narrator killed this book. I wish at some point this book could be re-recorded with another narrator even the person from infinite loop would have be so much better. Seriously what was the pauses between chapters seriously it was like a 10 second pause. It was really irritating. Never ever ever ever use this narrator please she is truly dreadful. This story could’ve been so much better without out reading it.

Worst, worst narrator ever! As good as the story was, she killed it!!!

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