Really enjoyed this one! I should have read it so much sooner! But I don’t regret it. This maybe a new obsession! I love the characters, plot, etc.

Thank you Netgalley for the advanced audio book and arc copy in exchange for my honest review.

This story was a lot character based. The overall plot to me was somewhat predictable. I felt like the story was just dragging and we got in depths on too many characters that there was no need to.
Overall, for me this wasn't a must read and hte book was a solid two stars.

Ten Thousand Rocks is the story of Will and Laura, an interracial couple with a complicated relationship not only with each other but also Will’s family who doesn’t even know that the couple has been married for 8 years.

When Will abruptly decides to change jobs and move back to his hometown, Laura goes along with Will’s plan, but it takes its toll on their already strained marriage. When Will is injured in a near fatal car accident, Laura is faced with making complex medical decisions for her husband without evening knowing exactly what he would have wanted. When Will wakes up from a coma and finds himself a quadriplegic, he becomes very angry with Laura. Can Will and Laura make up for past mistakes or will this drive them to the breaking point?

I liked almost everything about this book. The storyline was very interesting, and the main plot was something that I think not many people talk about. If you were to be injured in an accident, would you want all lifesaving measures to be taken even if it meant your quality of life may be completely different? There were some loose ends that left me wanting answers but overall, I really liked this book.

I struggled to get into this book. I really wanted to like it but I was not able to finish it. I can’t really say why but it was just very hard to get into. The title and description were good but there was just something about the writing.

I was not sure what to really expect with this book but the crash and what followed was not the path I thought the story would take.
I did keep listening. However, I am not sure this book was for me. It ambled along with no real focus or storyline which I found disappointing.

Laura, a lower-class white girl marries the upper-class black William Young. He becomes a medical doctor and they have a good life in the city. Will decides one day on his own, to move back into his and Laura‘s hometown. Will, is egocentric, not only treating Laura contemptuously but seems permanently discontent and displeased with people. After a car accident, he becomes disabled and wheelchair-bound and has to undergo a massive transformation to become a more nice human being. There were a bit too many tangents and descriptions of unimportant characters which made it a bit long. Also, Laura seemed a bit too good to be realistic. The audiobook was well narrated with a pleasant voice.

This was a very character driven book about love forgiveness and guilt! The characters are very complex and have personalities with depth! I enjoyed listening to this story and the light it shed on different social systems

Due to the description of this book calling
Will a narcissist I was expecting him to be a lot worse then he is. Instead he is just a self absorbed ahole who doesn’t take his wife’s (or anyone else’s) needs into consideration.

These two characters are flawed and do not know how to communicate effectively.

I disliked that sporadically the narrator changed to characters we hadn’t yet been introduced to.

This story at times felt clunky and I believe it could have flowed better had the chapters been slightly longer. This story also went off into tangents that weren’t executed well and some were just unnecessary.

Overall I feel like this story had a lot of potential but for me it missed the mark.

I received and audiobook ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I am so torn on this book. In the first half of the book, I kept wondering whether I should care about any of these characters because they were so flat. Then the book started to turn and it seemed more about the story and so I followed that thread. But then the storylines never seem to lean in any kind of solid direction and really just fizzled out. In all I would say a good, interesting unpredictable story but not a great read.

*received for free from netgalley for honest review* was not sure about this book at all lmao but lucky it was really good, would recommend!

There were lot of tidbits that left me thinking “wait, what?!” and yet weren’t explained further. Overall though, enjoyable story.

An easy read about a biracial couple whose marriage becomes tense and fractured after a series of life-changing events. The characters are both so deep and complex, and their relationship is compelling. A solid read that I picked up from Netgalley in a whim, thank you to the publisher for the eARC! 3.5 rounded up

Well, what a trip. Happiness and sadness. I started listening to this book and was not impressed. I had only listened the 1st chapter and put it down. One day about 2 weeks later I could not figure out what to read or listen too. Found this started book on my list and decided to give it another try. Well, so began 2 solid days of listening, once started I did not want to stop. A tale of ordinary people in a mixed marriage. A black man from a wealthy family, father was a judge. Will did not want to let his parents know he was married to a white lady. 10 years into their marriage an incident happened that changed their lives. It, becomes a tale of people who pull together. Who face even more problems. Problems that again are life changing. I am so glad I listened to this thoughtful well written story. Only to be sad when it came to the unexpected end. Thank you for allowing me to listen to this we’ll narrated story.

Thank you Netgalley for the advanced audio book in exchange for my honest review.

I'm honestly torn with this book. I think I would have enjoyed it more had the description been different, Namely, Will is not a narcissist. Yes he had his moments of being a selfish jerk; but the description calling him a narcissist had me expecting subject matter that this book does not even come close to touching. I also would have liked to see more development with Will and Laura's relationship dynamic in the first part of the book. I struggled to empathize with either of them until the second half. there were quite a few loose ends that I would have liked tied up and making the reader assume may have been the author's intention, but one really bugged me (the lawyer who was working with Will just disappeared from the story never to be heard from again and you never find out if anyone else was told what he discovered)

Although somewhat predictable, I did enjoy the karmatic turn in the plot as well as the growth in some of the characters by the end of the novel.

Overall it's not a must read, but it's not a waste of time either. I'd give it a solid 3/5.

A very easy and enjoyable listen. I saw this available on Netgalley an author new to me is like catnip!

The storyline is that a well heeled black guy marries a "white trash" girl. All is well until the entitled guy decides he's bored with his GP practice and wants more money, uprooting his wife without asking her opinion to move back to their home town. Of course this doesn't go down well with the wife. What happens next isn't at all what I expected and what could have been a mundane story has a twist which changes everyone's lives.

The story of Laura and Will is well told, beautifully narrated and has elements of a morality tale. It's certainly an easy listen and the narrator had a pleasant, soothing voice.

I certainly enjoyed this audio version and it would make a good, non-taxing read. You might find yourself telling people off at various points of the story because the behaviour is pretty bad at times. I always think that's a good sign that I'm engaged with the characters.

Smart, interesting and moral. A good read.

I picked this book almost on a whim to listen to something other than thrillers, the genre I usually choose, and it was a great idea.

In this moving, highly relatable story, we are presented with a couple struggling to find their balance. They will achieve this balance through a not so common course of events that reminds us how life can be unpredictable and that sometimes the best moments in life are hidden in this unpredictability and indeed in our darkest hour. I love the characters, the storyline, the images the author evokes via a masterful use of language.

The narrator is really good and his interpretation definitely adds value to the story.

Ten Thousand Rocks By: Ndirangu Githaiga Narrated by: Arthur Grey Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins was a very enjoyable audiobook and well written, This book is about the relationship between a young married couple, Will and Laura, and is about love, forgiveness and guilt? and how they dealt with it. It also highlights how choices they made will have consequences on both sides; but the power of forgiveness and love of each other in very difficult circumstances. Many of us have had to make these discussions in our relationships and they may not have come out the way you both wanted them.

The narrator Arthur Grey was very good.

Thank you NetGalley and Bon Espirit Books, Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Audiobooks for accepting my request to audibly read and review Ten Thousand Rocks.

Author: Ndirangu Githaiga
Published: 09/09/22
Narrator: Arthur Grey
Genre: General Fiction (Adult) -- Literary Fiction -- New Adult

Slow burner. It wasn't until I finished this book that I realized I liked it. Up until that moment I was ease dropping on a conversation that held my attention. I was not bored. From the beginning, there is a couple and several times I shook my head. Without spoiling, it is difficult to say much, there wasn't much that happened.

Two people live in a house, they are couple from the outside. He is a physician who quits his job (says nothing to his wife) and takes a job with an insurance company, did I mention he makes a commission? One word -- Karma.

The narrator, like ending of the story, was spot-on. I liked both.

I absolutely recommend this and would give as a gift.

There is a homeless man that believes if he adds a rock into the river each day then it will raise the level of the river. The couple in the book is a mixed race couple. He is a doctor and there is a strain in the marriage. The husband wont tell his parents about the marriage and then he is in an accident. He is critically injured and on life support. Does he live or die? Do the parents ever find out they are married and how does the accident change the lives of all involved. I like to add some questions into my reviews as it adds to the suspense of the book vs. always telling all about the book. I hope you are intrigued to read this book by this review as I believe it will bring us to evaluate our lives as well in a way.

Thank you to Net Galley for this book in exchange for my personal review and opinion.

Ten Thousand Rocks was a very interesting book. It talks about life and second chances. At the beginning learning about Will, you don't like him. There were so many offshoot reasons why he is the way he is and those offshoots give many things to think about.

The book touches on many deep issues that give you reason to think. These include how the health insurance in the US is not out to help the patient and is only out for profits; how long-term care insurance is something I really should be thinking about and also how advance directives are things that people should talk about loves ones with. While those things are not the main part of this book the issues really gave me pause.

It talks from the aspect of a biracial couple where the white female is shunned by the black male's family. That was a different bent from most biracial books I have read.

This is definitely a character development vs plot driven book. I do not usually gravitate towards those but it was very well written and narrated. I very much enjoyed the book and would recommend it.

I would give this 4.5 🌟 overall. Since Goodreads requires full 🌟 it is rounded up for this review.

Thanks again to Net Galley and the author for the opportunity to listen to this book.