I started this book a few years after reading Wild and expected a similar novel - my first mistake - it isn't, not even close. I always try and listen to all of them to the end in case it gets better and to be fair the last hour of this one was probably the best bit (I will admit to skipping some of the more cringeworthy parts of the book though). With other hiking audio books I’ve listened to (apart from ‘wild’ which is similar to this one and ‘a walk in the woods’ both of which I didn’t rate very highly) I’ve wanted to keep listening to them and get to the end because I was enjoying them and wanted to find out what happened next, with this one I just wanted to get to the end so I didn’t have to listen to it anymore. She also seems to skip quite quickly from one part of the story to the next without telling you what happened in between making it harder to follow. She focuses more on what she and everyone else ate on the way. She mentions a few other hikers but hardly anything about them apart from their trail names. I prefer ones where you learn about the other hikers and their stories and maybe a bit more about the trail itself. Not the best hiking related book I’ve listened to.
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