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Wow. What a terrible narrator!

Revisado: 06-28-23

Most Brit actors—TV and cinema— affect wonderful American accents, so what’s up with this audiobook narrator? And a parka is not a “parker,” and thank the goddess that the Brit author didn’t use puffer or puffa. If I had to be in the weather conditions described, I’d insist on a parka, styled longer than most.

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Another fabulous audiobook

Revisado: 05-21-23

Bravo to author Mark Greaney for another thriller featuring both Six and Anthem. Excellent voice-acting by one of my favorite narrators, Jay Snyder. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this audiobook, and I highly recommend it. I hope you like it as well!

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Enjoyable YA action, sci-fi book for gamers

Revisado: 05-02-23

Younger male fam members loved the Kindle copies I gifted, so I listened to the audiobook and liked it. Excellent for fast walks on the beach.

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Straight-from-TV cult tropes

Revisado: 05-02-23

It must be hard for authors to keep their ongoing-series’ books fresh, especially avoiding tropes. As I listened, I guessed the “twists” coming up. Plus there’s too much repetition of info from earlier books. Author, please trust your readers and our memories.

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A dark book about child trafficking and murder

Revisado: 09-13-22

This is one of JD Robb’s darker books that features child trafficking and sexual slavery. I left a full review in Goodreads and Amazon’s Kindle review section. I have every one of JD Robb’s Eve Dallas books, but this is one audiobook that I won’t listen to again.

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Good audiobook overall

Revisado: 05-26-22

This was a decent listen but I’m glad I had a Kindle copy to refer to, because of the odd narrative structure. The constant mid-scene POV changes became annoying, especially when I wasn’t sure which female character was speaking.

I was surprised by the narrator’s incompetence at pronouncing Japanese words. Perhaps she also mangled other languages, too.

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Worst sound quality of all the Audible versions I have

Revisado: 09-15-21

The sound is uneven so that it interfered with my listening, and I switched to the Kindle version. I recommend the Kindle or hard copy version of this book. I paid $1.99 for the audiobook, so I’m mulling whether I’ll bother to actually call Audible and return this. The storyline features a solid mystery with author’s usual, heavy internal-monologuing—due to the complex psychological profile of the protagonist. I read this as a stand-alone, without problems.

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Complex to convoluted mystery w/ medical/biotech terminology. Anti-vaxx undertones.

Revisado: 09-07-21

A Bouchercon acquaintance mentioned that she bleeped over this book’s medical/science jargon, so out of curiosity, I bought “Bone Code” during a Kindle sale. I prefer listening to spoken French, so I burned a credit on the Audible version. Brava, Linda Edmonds, for brilliant narration throughout—and for sailing through the med/science/technical jargon. Brava!

The setting is post-Covid . . . but pandemic reminders abound, because a secondary storyline features a deadly bacterial infection getting started in NC. The murder storyline is set in Montreal and in Charlotte, with Tempe flying to and fro, accompanied by her cat Birdie, whose loud meow-yowls annoy other passengers.

There is a lot of jargon—science, medical, biotech—but much of it is communicated via dialogue and mostly avoiding word walls. Overall, this is solid 4 star crime fiction, but I docked a star because of content that might inflame the current, politically-driven anti-vaxx narrative. It doesn’t matter that a scientist in this book explains the different types of vaccines, including mRNA. I recently discovered that science and scientists are irrelevant to some Americans.

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Two convoluted storylines. A thieving-murder-kidnap storyline. Plus a problematic somnambulist.

Revisado: 08-30-21

Excellent crime fiction by author Joy Ellis, with brilliant audiobook narration by Richard Armitage. I love Joy Ellis’ Audible books, but this time it took me longer to finish, because I had to listen intently—as I do to nonfiction. “The Night Thief” is dense with subplots, multiple characters, important details, and red herrings. I didn’t even try this audiobook in a car, because I often had to re-listen to get all the particulars. It’s a great listen with a martini in hand, whilst unwinding in the evening.

DI Jackman, DS Evans & their A-team investigate two different sneak thieves, who frighten women in their homes at night. One thief, who steals photos of young boys, murders an elderly woman. The second storyline features a strange man—with an atypical case of somnambulism—whose intensity and odd behavior sets off alarm bells in psychologist Laura Archer, who calls in Dr. Sam Page, her friend and mentor. There are several subplots and many secondary & tertiary characters—including six women victims, their sons, nephews, and grands.

I plan to buy the kindle version when it’s released, because although I gave this audiobook my full attention, I might have missed some details.

4.5 stars, bumped up to 5 stars.

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Annoyingly monotonous. Just constant pounding no rain.

Revisado: 07-06-21

Needs some change in rhythm, pace, power or something to vary the rain. Also needs more thunder to break the monotony.

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