Rereading to have a clearer picture of everything happening before listening to the last book in the series. Like with the two others, I doREREAD 2020
Rereading to have a clearer picture of everything happening before listening to the last book in the series. Like with the two others, I don't have anything new to say that I didn't already say in the original review.
Keeping the rating.
----------------------------------------------- So this book is by far the weakest in the series so far. It wasn't bad, but it was weak. The irony is that I don't think the story in itself was all that weak. I found it interesting, with the pocket worlds and how the author incorporated Brexit. It was interesting seeing it mentioned in a book like this, and how it affect the lives of people in Britain, and how little some of them thought about things when voting this way or that.
What I think the problem was for me, was the narrator. This series has changed narrator with each book, and that makes it hard to connect to the series. New narrators have different voices and different ways of portraying the characters, and so I never felt like the characters were set. On top of that, the narrator for this book was bad. She used pretty much the same voice for every character, male or female, and so it was hard to know who was saying what when. It made it easy to zone out.
I have already bought and started listening to the next book in the series - The Lights Go Out in Lychford - as it uses one of the two first narrators that I remember liking, and because it seems a lot of things will be happening. Until the ending of this book, I wasn't actually sure if there was a red-thread running through all the books, or if each was just a random story with these women at the senter. Now, it is clear the series is going somewhere, and so I want to give it another chance.
Just hope the author publish the books a little faster in the future. I mean, they're pretty short, one would think he would be able to publish more than once every second year
Original rating: 2/5 stars
Merged review:
REREAD 2020
Rereading to have a clearer picture of everything happening before listening to the last book in the series. Like with the two others, I don't have anything new to say that I didn't already say in the original review.
Keeping the rating.
----------------------------------------------- So this book is by far the weakest in the series so far. It wasn't bad, but it was weak. The irony is that I don't think the story in itself was all that weak. I found it interesting, with the pocket worlds and how the author incorporated Brexit. It was interesting seeing it mentioned in a book like this, and how it affect the lives of people in Britain, and how little some of them thought about things when voting this way or that.
What I think the problem was for me, was the narrator. This series has changed narrator with each book, and that makes it hard to connect to the series. New narrators have different voices and different ways of portraying the characters, and so I never felt like the characters were set. On top of that, the narrator for this book was bad. She used pretty much the same voice for every character, male or female, and so it was hard to know who was saying what when. It made it easy to zone out.
I have already bought and started listening to the next book in the series - The Lights Go Out in Lychford - as it uses one of the two first narrators that I remember liking, and because it seems a lot of things will be happening. Until the ending of this book, I wasn't actually sure if there was a red-thread running through all the books, or if each was just a random story with these women at the senter. Now, it is clear the series is going somewhere, and so I want to give it another chance.
Just hope the author publish the books a little faster in the future. I mean, they're pretty short, one would think he would be able to publish more than once every second year
I've read the comic a multitude of times, so nothing in this book was actually new to me. What the novels do, however, is give the character a lot morI've read the comic a multitude of times, so nothing in this book was actually new to me. What the novels do, however, is give the character a lot more debth. It did that very well in this book, especially in regards to the roof-top fight scene that I've had some issue with in the comics. I also love how it builds in Higgs' story, and I do love the Higgs/Zeetha story arc! Lastly, the novels tease a lot about what the future will hold for Agatha and her friends, as well as the world. While we already get some of that teasing in the comics, the novels holds a lot more of it.
I have to admit I'm confused at why they would end the book where they did, though. I'd think one more chapter, finishing up in the Red Cathedral, would be a much better ending for a book... But maybe they're afraid of the whole cliff-hanger hate thing going around out there? That said, as it stands now, I don't feel like there's any clear drive to keep on reading the series - if you're not already a fan - sure, there are some loose threads, but nothing really really big...
I have to make a note on the narrator, thought, as I read the 3 first books but had to listen to this one. The narrator is very good at many things, especially male voices, but something about the way she voiced Zeetha and Krosp grated on my ears soooooo bad. I'm not letting that affect my rating, but I felt I should mention it in case someone else wanted to give the audiobook a go.
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I've read the comic a multitude of times, so nothing in this book was actually new to me. What the novels do, however, is give the character a lot more debth. It did that very well in this book, especially in regards to the roof-top fight scene that I've had some issue with in the comics. I also love how it builds in Higgs' story, and I do love the Higgs/Zeetha story arc! Lastly, the novels tease a lot about what the future will hold for Agatha and her friends, as well as the world. While we already get some of that teasing in the comics, the novels holds a lot more of it.
I have to admit I'm confused at why they would end the book where they did, though. I'd think one more chapter, finishing up in the Red Cathedral, would be a much better ending for a book... But maybe they're afraid of the whole cliff-hanger hate thing going around out there? That said, as it stands now, I don't feel like there's any clear drive to keep on reading the series - if you're not already a fan - sure, there are some loose threads, but nothing really really big...
I have to make a note on the narrator, thought, as I read the 3 first books but had to listen to this one. The narrator is very good at many things, especially male voices, but something about the way she voiced Zeetha and Krosp grated on my ears soooooo bad. I'm not letting that affect my rating, but I felt I should mention it in case someone else wanted to give the audiobook a go....more
This story started out really messy and confusing, and while I still found the writingstyle confusing by the end - it was never clear who did/say/feltThis story started out really messy and confusing, and while I still found the writingstyle confusing by the end - it was never clear who did/say/felt what - the story switched at some point to something interesting and painful.
As a chronic pain patient, this story did affect me. Good or bad, who can tell.
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This story started out really messy and confusing, and while I still found the writingstyle confusing by the end - it was never clear who did/say/felt what - the story switched at some point to something interesting and painful.
As a chronic pain patient, this story did affect me. Good or bad, who can tell....more
"Just a short as I can't sleep," I was thinking. "Reading usually calms the mind and helps me sleep, so a short should do the trick." A few minutes lat"Just a short as I can't sleep," I was thinking. "Reading usually calms the mind and helps me sleep, so a short should do the trick." A few minutes later, and I'm crying so hard and trying to not wake the hubby whom is sleeping beside me and have an important meeting tomorrow.
What really got me in this short, was how real it felt. I was afraid I was going to die just a few weeks ago, and reading this short brought me back to that. Conpletly different situations, but the point that the author tapped into the basic humanity of it proves it was a good one.
(Unsure what to do now, though, find another short or just try for sleep anywho?)
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"Just a short as I can't sleep," I was thinking. "Reading usually calms the mind and helps me sleep, so a short should do the trick." A few minutes later, and I'm crying so hard and trying to not wake the hubby whom is sleeping beside me and have an important meeting tomorrow.
What really got me in this short, was how real it felt. I was afraid I was going to die just a few weeks ago, and reading this short brought me back to that. Conpletly different situations, but the point that the author tapped into the basic humanity of it proves it was a good one.
(Unsure what to do now, though, find another short or just try for sleep anywho?)...more
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