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Prima Facie
- De: Suzie Miller
- Narrado por: Jodie Comer
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 17
Tessa Ensler always plays by the rules. A brilliant defence barrister at the top of her game, she's made it against the odds in the exclusive world of criminal law. For her, it's not about innocence or guilt - it's about winning or losing. But when a date with a dazzling colleague from her chambers goes awry, Tessa discovers that the rules she's always played by might not be in her favour.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Your word against mine.
- De Anonymous User en 08-05-24
- Prima Facie
- De: Suzie Miller
- Narrado por: Jodie Comer
Your word against mine.
Revisado: 08-05-24
A truthful and thoughtful performer, Jodie Comer, demonstrates her craft as she viscerally guides the listener on the based-on-true-life-events, story of ex-criminal defense lawyer and writer, Suzie Miller.
Based in the UK, the story is told through the eyes of the highly intelligent, successful and quick-witted, criminal defense barrister, Tessa Ensler. Tessa leads our narrative with a confidence and surety, which for most of her life, has rested on her intelligence and passion of the law. This is not to say she has always had positive experiences with it, but the way she sees it, as long as the truth is told, the law will serve justice accordingly. She believes in its ability to decipher the truth in the right hands. Her hands… It’s also possible that she feels she is owed to this belief… After all, partnered with her brilliance, it led her to a new life and status in the fast-paced and sophisticated city of London, but perhaps not…
After an exciting and fun night, a sudden and hard wall appears in front of Tessa as she is confronted by reality. This leaves her to question the very foundations and walls that have held up and helped her to build her life. The solid walls with its cemented foundations, unveiled as rather, a barrier instead protection. Things aren’t so black and white and the reliability of the law and her own interpretation of it and “the truth”, is pulled into question.
The story keeps you on edge, as each sentence furiously drives the narrative. The characters are grounded in their perspectives and identities. Our main character, Tessa confides in the audience honestly. A trust is built with the audience, as she confides in and shares intimate and deeply personal information about her life. It is told with an honesty and a piercing vulnerability, leaving you hanging onto her every word, or even when… She has none to say to those in her external world.
With the masterful pairing of Comer’s performance and Miller’s words, a devastating light is shone on something so dark, ignored and important. The listener is left with rage, despair and eventually… a spark of hope. A hope that illuminates that this story may inspire effective change. A shift in society. A shift that could potentially help so many victims, particularly women, who have been “swept under the rug” in the world, as it carries on with “(easier) things.” In 2024, the topic of “victim-blaming mentality” has become a discussion, that is building its way of being brought to the table. Stories like this assist this cause and the injustice experienced by victims who are not believed.
Tessa could be anyone. Anyone in the sense that despite her being extraordinary, she is not exempt from what life may throw your way.
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All the Lovers in the Night
- De: Mieko Kawakami
- Narrado por: Mirai Booth-Ong
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 11
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength to change her life and decides to do something about it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Overall
- De Anonymous User en 12-28-23
- All the Lovers in the Night
- De: Mieko Kawakami
- Narrado por: Mirai Booth-Ong
Overall
Revisado: 12-28-23
Sometimes the reader’s voice was too monotonous with both narration and characters. Although the story was boring at times there were also moments that had the most beautiful detailing of subtle moments and intricate feelings.
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