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Yet another perfect delight of the DFZ novels

Revisado: 10-04-23

Like every book set in the DFZ before it, this one does not fail to thrill! My only complaint is that it didn't last longer.

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loved this!

Revisado: 02-03-23

I haven't read anything by Rachael Aaron that I haven't throughly enjoyed, and this series is proving no different!

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Wonderful!

Revisado: 02-17-17

Gaiman's retelling of Norse mythology is spellbinding, and to hear the author himself read it is a real treat.

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a disappointing sequel

Revisado: 11-18-16

While the first book by this author is amazing, this sequel leaves a lot to be desired. Nothing interesting happens. There is no real action, which makes for a pretty boring plot.

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Fascinating story--but unfortunately bad narrator

Revisado: 06-15-16

Looking at other reviews, you'll see that some people are bothered by the fact that this book actually covers two stories in one--the story of Amy Archer and her many murders, and that of the heat wave of 1911 which also killed many people. I personally enjoyed it, and thought both stories were intriguing. Telling both stories concurrently helped set the time period, and gave a very good overview of the area. In all, I really enjoyed this book.

Except for the narration. Eddie Frierson would be a wonderful narrator for a fiction novel or children's book, but for a serious work of non-fiction, I think he was a bad choice. I know that narrators doing 'voices' for characters is a pretty normal thing, but this book doesn't contain dialogue so much as it has quotations--usually from letters and newspaper articles. So doing voices for these seemed an odd choice, particularly since Eddie's voices are really bombastic and cartoony. Even so, I did manage to get use to them for a while, at least, until he did Amy Archer's voice.

Eddie Frierson can not do women's voices. And unfortunately he didn't let that fact stop him from trying. It grated on my nerves every time he did the annoying fake-granny voice for Amy Archer. And in case you missed it, Amy is the titular serial killer in this book, so there are a LOT of quotations from her.

This was the only thing about this book that I didn't like, but it was a pretty big part of the book, so make of that what you will.

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Not an interesting read

Revisado: 04-13-16

I don't know if it's because of the inexperience of the author or what, but this has been one of the most boring true crime books I've listened to. Nothing about it was particularly interesting. Also, this book had a tendency to repeat itself. Like, not just reminding you of information it had already told you, but literally copy and pasting information with even the exact same phrasing as in previous chapters. It was annoying. And there is a chapter just stuck in the middle that just goes off on a tangent telling stories about random other family members which isn't relevant to anything. I didn't enjoy this book, in fact, I didn't even finish it. I got about 3/4 of the way through before I gave up.

The narration in this audiobook is good, but the story is poorly written, in my opinion.

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Interesting case with a loooong boring ending

Revisado: 04-03-16

This case is fascinating, and seems well researched. My problem was the second half of the book, which covers the trials of the two accused. That part exhaustively covers every minute detail of what every single person in the court room said. While some might find that interesting, I found it to be overly long and boring, and did skip a couple of the later chapters. This case is very interesting, but this book is not my favorite true crime book.

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Weakest of this series

Revisado: 07-13-15

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Yes

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

I love the Hearlds of Valdemar series, and have really enjoyed this collegium series, but so far I think this book is the weakest of the lot. It was very different from the other books and the ending just felt weirdly abrupt and unsatisfactory to me.

What does Nick Podehl bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Nick is a great narrator. He does voices very well. There was one awkward part in this book, though, where the main character is in the middle of a conversation and suddenly has a series of flash backs to the previous books. Because it was in audio format and not text, the transition into these flashbacks was unclear and very confusing. I had to rewind and listen a second time before I understood what was happening.

Was Redoubt worth the listening time?

While redoubt is the weakest of the series, it's still very good and well worth a listen.

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