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Couldn't Finish

Revisado: 01-05-25

Although I have enjoyed a couple of the other Strike novels, I couldn't get through this one. Extremely slow. The whole "cult" plot felt so oppressive.... Maybe I was depressed when I _started_ listening, but I definitely was after a couple of hours,

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This Writer Needs a Hardass Editor

Revisado: 01-05-25

Plots are okay; central character is underdeveloped. There are many Many MANY bothersome prose errors: "neither...were"; confusion of imply/infer; confusion of authoritarian/authoritative; constant, very obvious dangling modifiers of the "walking along the beach, the sun rose" variety. Rather than using "conflict" or "inconsistency," a new word is invented -- "confliction." REALLY???? Is this writer so hard to work with that no editor will work with him/her??

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Woman Finds Old Frenemies Are Terrible People

Revisado: 01-05-25

Some interesting details and plot twists, but characters not really believable; in addition, there's no one to really identify with and root for, as the bodies pile up.

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Glad it was free

Revisado: 08-11-24

Story is slow; narrator’s rhythm doesn’t match punctuation; wanted to like it but couldn’t get into it.

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Classic Vimes

Revisado: 05-16-24

Early on — Vimes meets Carrot and Lady Sybil and defeats a dragon. Recording quality is “vintage” and read speed is better if slightly accelerated IMHO, but the story is pure Pratchett perfection.

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Wanted to like it; will return

Revisado: 05-11-24

While the personal and professional backstories (twins; police and secret service work) make the characters interesting and lend some serious moments, the current situations strain credulity. I thought this book would be similar to the somewhat wacky crime-solving of Osman's elderly crew (Thursday Murder Club et al), but I can only suspend disbelief so far. Edwina and Hetty are particularly over the top. Did finish listening to it, but wouldn't re-listen; if a book is good, I can enjoy it more than once. I just "got to the end of" this one.

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Disappointed

Revisado: 03-08-24

Obviously launched from reality— a woman loses the Presidential race to a man vaguely described as awful, incompetent, a nightmare. She retreats to a cabin in the north, hires a ghostwriter, and then together they solve a murder. Prose is competent, but ending disappointing. New info half-revealed about narrator’s past torpedoes her budding relationship with a security guard (which seemed kinda junior high and extraneous all along) but sets up possible sequel.

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More Wolfe!

Revisado: 06-11-23

Far more chatty than a classic Stout; maybe the setting and all the family characters brought this on, but it would have been better if author resisted!

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Great Performance

Revisado: 06-05-23

Parts of this felt very real, very vivid. At times I thought the writer lapsed into preaching (even though I agree with him much of the time).

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Un-listenable

Revisado: 12-02-22

I made two good-faith attempts to listen to this book, but the narrator's inexplicable pauses, both for narrator and most characters, drove me mad. "Dare I ask....what brings you...to this conclusion?" Not the rhythm of the language, not for suspense value, not for breathing, just needless pauses. Can't bear it.

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