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Terrible

Revisado: 11-07-24

The story: cardboard characters it is impossible to engage with, flat story development. One worn trope follows another - if there was any humour in it at all, it could be a satire. All this made worse by incredibly bad historical research in costume, social details and language, as well as a ridiculous take on addiction.

The reader: unfamiliar with distinctions of accent, unable to distinguish between voices. But then he did not have much to work with, you need to be given characters in order to convincingly play them.

I do love a good cosy crime novel and have enjoyed many books chided as "slow" or "boring", but this was just soporific. As another reviewer said, not remotely in the same league as the other authors the Audible/Amazon algorithm suggests as "similar".

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Story just OK, audiobook narrator catastrophic

Revisado: 09-01-23

The story is simple, characterisation is weak and the shoehorning-in of real-life famous names is irritating. Still, this could have been an easy, enjoyable romp but for the atrocious narrator. No inflection in the voice, no difference between characters and, most annoyingly, so many almost comically mispronounced words and names that I can only assume this was an attempt at producing an audiobook using AI. I was unable to finish it.

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Game of two halves

Revisado: 04-19-21

The first half of this book almost reads like a collection of self-contained short stories. But then it picks up the pace, adds a proper story arc, accelerates the development of several characters, chucks in a few old favourites and culminates in a very satisfying (although a little bit too neat and predictable) conclusion. I am confident that the series will stand well alongside the St Mary's series. Must bustle now, there's volume 2 to be read/listened to and I can't wait.

As for the audio version, all hail to Zara Ramm as always. Spot on.

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Game of two halves

Revisado: 04-19-21

The first half of this book almost reads like a collection of self-contained short stories. But then it picks up the pace, adds a proper story arc, accelerates the development of several characters, chucks in a few old favourites and culminates in a very satisfying (although a little bit too neat and predictable) conclusion. I am confident that the series will stand well alongside the St Mary's series. Must bustle now, there's volume 2 to be read/listened to and I can't wait.

As for the audio version, all hail to Zara Ramm as always. Spot on.

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