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Good story

Revisado: 08-18-24

Good plot with excellent performances. I could mostly see where it was going but there were some unexpected twists along the way.

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One of Rendell’s best

Revisado: 05-22-21

I have read most of Ruth Rendell’s books over the years and am now listening to them. I’ve always thought her stand-alone novels were better than the Wexford books and this is one of the best.

This book is about an elderly lady and her “lodger” who both lead interior lives greatly at odds with reality. She pines for the love that got away; he longs for romance with a famous model and contrives to meet her.

It’s a Rendell book so of course there are murders, oddballs, creepy settings, all vividly brought to life and enhanced by the excellent narration of Ric Jerrom. There are no mind-blowing twists or contrived occurrences; everything proceeds about the way you’d expect it to in real life. The fun is in the way the events are interpreted through the faulty prisms of the characters’ minds.

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Cromwell comes alive

Revisado: 06-01-20

I listened to the first two books in this trilogy and anxiously awaited the third. Put off by some of the reviews of Ben Miles’ narration, I started out reading the book but it was slow going. I decided to go ahead and get the Ben Miles version and I’m glad I did.

Aside from his mispronunciation, or possibly correct pronunciation, of Wroithsley, I found his reading to be excellent. I did hear a little Michael Caine in Cromwell now and then, but Cromwell was not born a posh toff and Miles’ accent was not grating. The voices of each character had sometimes very subtle differences yet I could distinguish between them, an amazing achievement.

The book itself was, of course, masterful. Mantel brings to life a time and place in history and breathes life into the people who lived them.

This recording includes a dialog between Ben Miles and the author, and it was interesting to hear their comments. I highly recommend this recording.

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Couldn’t get past the narrator

Revisado: 03-05-19

This is an odd and disturbing story, disturbing in that it shows the way rape victims were treated not that long ago and how this served to allow people like this “Demon“ to stay on the streets, happily victimizing more women.

Beyond that, I could not get past the reader. He had a strange, halting cadence to his speech, kind of like the rabbi on Seinfeld. He pronounced every “a” as a long “a,” never “uh,” and almost every “the” as “thee.” It’s probably just me, but this drove me to distraction. Couldn’t finish it.

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