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Interesting but not compelling

Revisado: 09-05-24

This is kind of a beach read - a mystery that doesn’t have a lot of depth or strong characterization. All of it was okay but nothing about it was great. The narrator bothered me a lot at first but I got used to her. I wish she hadn’t used that sort of breathy voice so often.

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Revisado: 10-23-22

A romance novel fused with a mystery novel - I hope I never read another book like this again. It was stressful without being satisfying, with unlikable characters & heavy handed language. The narration was grating and irritating.

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An exceptional listen

Revisado: 09-14-22

Each of the Cormoran Strike series has been better than the last (with the possible exception of Lethal White). The Ink Black Heart is the best Galbraith novel yet. Also outstanding is Robert Glenister’s narration, which makes the audiobook version a compelling listen. I would listen to Glenister narrate the phone book; in his hands, a really excellent novel has the opportunity to shine.

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Super satisfying

Revisado: 08-21-22

While I was hoping for another Cormac Reilly mystery, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this book. Dervla McTiernan keeps you on your toes.

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The author was not a good narrator

Revisado: 11-30-21

I should start by saying that I didn’t love this book. It suffered from extraneous and boring details. No one wants a description of unwrapping a taffy unless it is somehow important. (Spoiler alert: it wasn’t.) While I would have expected a first-person story of a beat attack to be riveting, it wasn’t. Instead it felt like I spent the whole book waiting to be interested. I never was. I wish the author had given more attention to who individual people were in terms of their characters instead of describing each meal. But the worst part of this was the narration. He mumbled, had a tendency to rush through certain passages, and sounded bored with his own story. If he was bored, how could anyone else be interested? I wanted this to be a Jon Krakauer book. It wasn’t.

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Affected writing with a stilted narrator

Revisado: 05-22-21

The book itself would have been pretty bad on paper. It’s loaded with cliches, is predictable, and deeply boring. But the narration sent it over the edge for me. It was like the narrator was reading a phone book. It was excruciatingly painful.

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Depressing and leading nowhere

Revisado: 05-16-21

I appreciate that this was a podcast about a cold case, but I expected a little more mystery in the case itself - not a single, consistent suspect. I found Emmon Bodfish to be a mentally ill man who wished for his own murder and got his wish - it was hard to feel sympathy for him, or connection. I wish I hadn’t listened.

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Depressing and leading nowhere

Revisado: 05-16-21

I appreciate that this was a podcast about a cold case, but I expected a little more mystery in the case itself - not a single, consistent suspect. I found Emmon Bodfish to be a mentally ill man who wished for his own murder and got his wish - it was hard to feel sympathy for him, or connection. I wish I hadn’t listened.

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Not one of Agatha Christie’s best

Revisado: 03-08-21

This is one of the weirder Agatha Christie mysteries and kind of unsatisfying. Tommy and Tuppence are a little unnecessarily silly, but the plot is even sillier. Emilia Fox is an excellent narrator in general except when doing American accents - she uses that stylized American accent that a lot of British narrators use (and which I’ve never heard on an American).

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Affected and tedious

Revisado: 07-28-18

If I wasn't genuinely interested in this subject matter, I would never have persisted with this book. The author's attempts to make science accessible for the ordinary reader come across as patronizing and silly - little affections, quips, and instructions not to worry if something is too hard. I found her writing style profoundly irritating.

The narration may have made the whole thing worse. The narrator was overacting throughout the book, dramatizing moments unnecessarily, with a falsely warm voice that reminded me of the type of kindergarten teacher even children don't like.

Overall, a deeply disappointing experience.

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