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  • My Life with the Walter Boys

  • By: Ali Novak
  • Narrated by: Renée Chambliss
  • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (67 ratings)

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My Life with the Walter Boys

By: Ali Novak
Narrated by: Renée Chambliss
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Soon to be adapted for TV by Netflix!

Jackie does not like surprises. Chaos is the enemy! The best way to get her successful, busy parents to notice her is to be perfect. The perfect look, the perfect grades—the perfect daughter. And then . . .

Surprise #1: Jackie's family dies in a freak car accident.

Surprise #2: Jackie has to move cross-country to live with the Walters—her new guardians.

Surprise #3: The Walters have twelve sons. (Well, eleven, but Parker acts like a boy anyway.)

Now Jackie must trade in her Type A personality and New York City apartment for a Colorado ranch and all the wild Walter boys who come with it. Jackie is surrounded by the enemy—loud, dirty, annoying boys who have no concept of personal space. Okay, several of the oldest guys are flat-out gorgeous. But still annoying. She's not stuck-up or boring—no matter what they say—but proving it is another matter. How can she fit in and move on when she needs to keep her parents' memory alive by living up to the promise of perfect?

©2014 Ali Novak (P)2014 Tantor

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The acceptance of a group of teenaged boys sexually bullying a girl is unacceptable

I had to stop listening to this book when it seemed to be accepted that it is funny that teenaged boys thought it was ok to video their new adopted sister in the nude by stealing her clothes. What made it worse was that the victim whined about how she had to try and fit in with this behaviour. Even more infuriating was that it seemed to be fine as the boys all had amazing six packs and were incredibly good looking and they then persecuted her for dobbing on them. A good girl is expected to put up with this and remain silent. What sort of message is this giving to our young people??

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Cole

Though there were some questionable eyebrow raidsing parts in the book, I thought it was generally sweet and so where’s book two? I’m so in love with Cole and Jackie!

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Tedious young adult romance

I have not watched it but I am guessing that the tv series will be better. It is a cliched bad boy falls for the pretty girl out of her comfort zone. Meh.

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had to push through

if there was a storyline the narration killed it. really struggled through this one.

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Couldn’t stop listening

Once I got past the readers voice I could not stop listening. Such a great book. Hope there is a second.

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High expectations but unfortunately left disappointed.

Was really looking forward to this book. Unfortunately I didn’t like the narrator’s style. Just my personal view.

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Boring and uninspiring

A bland story with a bland narrator to match.
The story didn’t evoke any emotions, the characters were flat and the characters that did have promise were pushed aside as side characters.

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realistic lifestyles

I was astounded by how in-depth Jackie's life was .
And the narrator fully impersonated every character

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Definitely YA

I thought, seeing that it's been turned into a tv series, that this was going to be awesome. It was not. It really read like a high schooler wrote it. A junior high schooler.

The idea sounds good but the execution was poor. It read like someone's diary entries with lots of little events happening but no description. There was no atmosphere or feeling like I was there. The characters were two dimensional and not appealing at all. The parents parenting was questionable (not discussing that fact that they were drunk and under age drinking, leaving a 16 year old girl - who's new to the family- alone with two teenage boys, using the new girl to ice 200 cupcakes and the morning of the wedding). Also, who leaves a 16yr old (who you barely know) to finish off details of the wedding like seating plans, and the florist? Yeah right.

I guess this is aimed at teenagers who don't think about the overall picture, just which cute boy she's going to pick. I couldn't wait to finish it.

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A more cohesive story than the Netflix version

I had already watched the whole Netflix series, so it’s always interesting to see the similarities and differences. The original story is more rounded, cohesive and whole. I enjoyed both immensely.

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