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So layered!

Revisado: 08-21-24

Love, love, love Atkinson. This book has so many intelligent twists and turns and keeps you on the edge of your seat all along. The reader is great too, though susan who read the first brody book was my favourite.

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Easy read, not amazing

Revisado: 07-05-24

The story is entertaining with some nice twists. It‘s not a literary masterpiece though, I would have enjoyed a bit more subtleties. While I found it an entertaining listen, I was never suuper gripped. The reader does a great job.

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Such a shame!

Revisado: 05-12-24

I absolutely adore Kellye Garrett, and have devoured all her audiobooks which are read sublimely by Bahni Turpin. I don‘t know what happened here that they didn‘t let Turpin read this one too. I just can‘t get through this one. Blake has a lovely voice, but she reads so slowly and flatly that I can‘t follow what she‘s saying. The sentences fall apart into single words. There is no emotion or pace. A real shame. Please give the job back to Turpin.

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Amazing

Revisado: 11-01-23

This book amazed me! Few people, not to mention celebrities, have as much guts, depth, and loyalty as her. I really wasn‘t expecting to be so pulled in by her story and impressed by her as a person. The past week I‘ve felt like I‘ve had this friend looking over my shoulder, and I would sometimes get „flashbacks“ to parts of this story. She is amazing, listen to the book.

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sad

Revisado: 01-09-23

have to agree with fellow reviewer Karen on this one. I love love love Agatha Raisin, but something went very wrong here. As Karen mentioned, the writing is rather bad on this one. Editing errors, name changes but also clumsily written scenes. MC Beaton normally has me laughing out loud with her well-written dialogue, but here everything was stilted. Penelope Keith reads it rather lacklustre, it made me wonder whether something had happened to cause such a sad reading, when normally she is the best of the best. All in all an (audio) book that doesn't even come close to its predecessors.

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sad

Revisado: 01-09-23

have to agree with fellow reviewer Karen on this one. I love love love Agatha Raisin, but something went very wrong here. As Karen mentioned, the writing is rather bad on this one. Editing errors, name changes but also clumsily written scenes. MC Beaton normally has me laughing out loud with her well-written dialogue, but here everything was stilted. Penelope Keith reads it rather lacklustre, it made me wonder whether something had happened to cause such a sad reading, when normally she is the best of the best. All in all an (audio) book that doesn't even come close to its predecessors.

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truly wonderful!

Revisado: 08-28-22

this is one of my favourite charles paris mysteries so far! there are a lot of twists and turns and great characters.

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"A vogue-ish obsession"

Revisado: 08-24-22

I adore all the works of Simon Brett. That being said, there is a streak of sexism throughout his work. Normally I can just ignore this, because I enjoy the cosyness of his writng and his excellent reading skills so much. This book, however, trivialises an affair between a grown man and a 14 year-old girl: The tone of the book implies that this used to be standard procedure and that is only "fashionable" these days to make a big deal about it retroactively: it describes this as a "a voguesh obsession with historical sex crime". It also frames victims who speak out as pretenders. I find this shocking. Anyone who has ever spent a lengthy amount of time with, or cared about, a 14 year-old girl, would not want to read about her being abused in such an off-hand manner.

Yes, I am sure there have been times when it was normal to wed off 14 year-olds, but there have also been times when women weren't allowed to vote. Not sure that we should adapt our standards to historical normalcies.

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Miranda?

Revisado: 06-23-22

As usual I loved this Fethering story. However, as Fethering novels go, I found it one of the less amazing ones. My biggest issue was that I honestly couldn't understand why no-one told Miranda what really happened to her son. Such an omission seems unnecessarily cruel, and didn't make any sense to me as a reader.

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why so slow?

Revisado: 03-02-22

the lady who reads Jess' character does so at such a painstakingly slow speed that it feels like an artificial tension build-up with the effect of annoyi g me rather than exciting me. I have never done this before, but I set the speed to 1.2 in order for the pace to feel more natural. However, this didn't work as there are other readers as well, who speak at a more natural pace. speeding those up meant it was too quick all of a sudden.
i don't know if it was because of the reading or also the story, but I liked this one less than "The Guest List" or "The Hunting Party".

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