Michael

Dear adults

Revisado: 12-20-22

Teenagers can be annoying, foolish, and shallow, that doesn't mean the story is bad.

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Leave this to Marsters.

Revisado: 07-06-22

Don't get me wrong. Jim is an ok narrator, but why does he sound like he's trying to impersonate John Wayne half the time, when he's narrating Dresden.

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Inconsistencies drag down an otherwise fun ride

Revisado: 12-24-15

Mr. Nachenburg's first outing as a novelist is ultimately successful, but for me, what could've been a thoroughly enjoyable ride, was dragged down by a number of inconsistencies, particularly in the character's behavior. I'll get the bad out of the way first. Much of this could've been solved by a good professional editor, I believe, someone who could have caught a lot of these and smoothed. There are characters who seem to have a tech/IT background, but then later in the story act as if all they do with computers is browse the web. There are characters who refuse to eat pizza and later scarf down Tommy burgers. Perhaps I'm being nit picky, but there enough of these little slights that it got to be distracting. As well, there are times that the story telling fall into cliché. The main villain in particular. Not only are their motivations, while timely, cliché, but we find him monologueing at points during the story.

Nick Podehls narration is overall good, not at all flat, keeps the story moving along and interesting. Nick's voicing for the male characters was generally spot on, though he may have tended to give some of the male characters too much of a Southern California surfer-boy vibe. As for female characters, I'm going assume the best, and guess that he simply struggles to give depth to female characters, rather than him ascribing to him particular attitudes towards women. To this end, most of the female characters end up sounding...dumb, which is to the detriment of the story.

Overall The Florentine Deception is a fun engaging listen. Generally I listen to audiobooks during my commutes and a couple good gauges of whether I like a book or not is 1) I'm motivated to listen to it in the morning when I'm not so chipper, or 2) I choose the audiobook over streaming a hockey game on game nights. I found both of these to be true. The tech stuff is not impenetrable and Carey doesn't have to break the flow of the story too much to do the necessary explanations. Honestly, as someone with a tech background I sometimes wished it was more complicated than it it turn out being. The Florentine Deception has a fun puzzle, a fun mystery to be solved, without being a mystery novel, and for this I commend it.

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