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Spinning Jenny

A Novel

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Spinning Jenny

By: Sylvia McLain
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Book One of the Spinning Jenny series. "I guess I'll name you Jenny, something I can say easy. That was my mammy's name, anyway. Jenny. You be Jenny from now on..." Cornelius Carson's mother cautioned him never to own slaves, but in 1830s Louisiana, land and slaves are proof of a man's worth. At 23 Cornelius is ambitious, and in love. He owns one elderly slave, Malachi, and a small cotton farm along Bayou Cocodrie. And he plans to marry Stephanie Coqterre, daughter of a wealthy Natchez planter. He needs another field-hand, but prices are high. So when a trader brings a coffle of smuggled slaves to Natchez, Cornelius buys a 10-year-old girl. She is mute and nameless, but she's all he can afford. He names her Jenny. It quickly becomes apparent that Jenny will change life on the Cocodrie as much as it changes her. The winds of ambition are blowing everywhere, both among the whites, who strive for wealth and status, and among the slaves, who yearn for freedom. But dangers are everywhere, too. As madness and treachery reach from Natchez to the Cocodrie to blast all their dreams, Cornelius struggles to find a way to salvage his life and the lives of Jenny and Malachi as well. Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction
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Too many misplaced emotions and mispronounced terms. Voice inflection fails to represent characters, gender and circumstance. Really poor communication of the story.

Virtual voice ruined the game

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The story was decent, but eventually the computer generated audio began to get irritating. Often the emphasis was on the wrong words. It was at times ok. But more often than not sounded like random words strung together. I highly recommend the author pay a human to create the audio.

The AI reader/computer generated

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Poor grammar and non sensible wording. Also , the other reviews are correct, there is no real plot.

The AI reading of the book is terrible all throughout the narration.

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Did not like that it was narrated by AI. It give the story no emotion or feeling

The story plot

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virtual voice mispronounced many words!! poor grammar, sounded more like a script, a screenplay. flat out awful. I stayed until the end...

no plot whatsoever. flat.

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The performance and the voice was awful. I finish listening but did not like it.

The story teller could not engage me

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The virtual reading voice is out of synch with every part of the story and a travesty to reading aloud.

Robotic with flat affect

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I did not like this book. It was really slow going, and I just kept waiting for there to really be a plot. There wasn’t one and by the end of it I was just glad to be done. The AI reader was really noticeably a computer. Overall, a huge disappointment.

Long and Boring - no real plot

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