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    The End of Feeling
    The End of Feeling
    The End of Feeling
    Audiobook8 hours

    The End of Feeling

    Written by Cindy C Bennett

    Narrated by Nick Podehl and Amy McFadden

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Eighteen-year-old Benjamin Nefer seems to have it all: great looks, incredible football skills, and smooth moves that have won—and broken—the hearts of countless girls at his high school. But his hellish home life has left him feeling empty inside, unable to experience real feelings. He thinks he’s fine being this way forever…until he meets a beautiful and witty seventeen-year-old girl named Charlotte “Charlie” Austin. She may be new in town, but she’s already been warned about Benjamin’s reputation, so it’s easy for her to shoot down his advances. Like him, she’s happier keeping people at a distance, especially since she, too, has secrets she’s not ready to share with anyone. But as the tentative friendship between the charismatic football captain and the new girl grows, Charlie finds herself feeling closer to Benjamin than she’s ever felt with anyone—and he wonders if he’s really capable of loving after all. Can they drop their guard, or is this so-called romance just another game?

    Revised edition: This edition of The End of Feeling includes editorial revisions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 27, 2015
    ISBN9781501220951
    The End of Feeling
    Author

    Cindy C Bennett

    Cindy C Bennett has been writing her whole life, but she fell in love with young adult novels after her teenage daughters introduced her to the genre. Her first two novels, Heart on a Chain and Geek Girl, were written for her daughters, who then encouraged her to publish them. Today, she has eight published novels to her name, including the Whitney Award–nominated young adult romance The End of Feeling. The mother of four grown children and two grandchildren, she enjoys writing, hanging out at the Salt Lake Comic Con, and riding her Harley all over Utah, where she was born and raised.

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    • 3/5
      Not awful but made a DNF when I hit ”What is your heritage? Mine is Scandinavian and Norwegian.” Norway is part of Scandinavia. I cannot trust a writer who is so poorly informed.
    • 4/5
      A good listen! I have to say Benjamin is kind of creepy. He says he is obsessed with Charlie and at night, whenever he calls her, he drives his car and parks it around her house to watch her. That’s a real red flag. So yeah. The star deduction is the creepiness I feel whenever Benjamin stalks Charlie.
    • 5/5
      Really good book. Could have done few things to make it great but really enjoyed it.
    • 5/5
      This is really a fantastic book! It's a very touching story of two high school students facing huge issues with their home lives but try to keep appearances up that everything is fine. Benjamin never lets anyone get too close, thus his two date max rule. Charlie is the new girl in school and she has absolutely no time for extracurricular activities, thus the no dating rule. Yet they are drawn to each other and slowly discover that sometimes, letting someone in is exactly what you need.

      This book is beautifully written and even though technically it is a YA/NA type book it has a core story that will appeal to everyone. I highly recommend it!
    • 4/5
      This book was everything that I was hoping for and more. I honestly couldn’t put the book down once I started to read it. I believe that this book will hold the spot of one of my favorites throughout 2015. Yes, I only gave it 4.5 stars out of 5, but it still will make it’s way to the top of my list.The book is split – one chapter it could be Charlie’s point of view and the next it could be Benjamin’s.Charlie has had a hard life growing up. She was made fun of for many different things and so when she moves to a new school she doesn’t want anyone to know any of her secrets. I loved every inch…every single inch of Charlie’s story. It was heart-wrenching, heart-warming and just wasn’t what you expected from a ‘regular’ YA, Contemporary novel. One thing about Charlie that made me give this less than the five stars I wanted to was…Charlie was sort of mean to her aunt when she moved in. I know some of her reasons could make sense, but it just seemed so harsh to me. If someone was allowing me to live under their roof for free I would be a little more on the nice side.Benjamin, like Charlie, has had a hard life growing up. Although, no one really knows about it. He is the tough, preppy football player who everyone admires and all the girls want to date. His exterior shows something that his emotions and inside won’t let show. At first, I wasn’t all for Benjamin; I was listening to what Charlie’s friends were telling her and some of his comments were just not for me.I grew to love the main characters throughout the book so much. Yes, they did some things that annoyed me, but I think that for this book to work the way it did we needed some conflict with them. Not only did I love the main characters, I loved Charlie’s friends, her mom, her aunt, and I even enjoyed one of Benjamin’s friends. I also enjoyed a few other characters along the way, but I can’t mention them without spoiling some juicy information for you guys.So here is the main reason for giving this book a half star short of the amazing five. The ending was really rushed for me. So much stuff had been happening to Benjamin and it just seemed so much to be put in only a few chapters. I am glad the author added these MAJOR components in I just wish there was more time spent on each of them. The ending I will say was one that I liked it was just rather rushed.