"My First Nicci French Book"
This was a good listen. It had a good story line and keep me guessing.
Great performance.
I will defiantly read/listen to more!
"Interesting Read. The beginning of a new series."
I liked it enough to read another book by the author.
Yes. It was interesting enough and there was enough storyline to interest me.
"Predictable & a little boring"
It was very predictable. The protagonist & detective relatively boring. Pace too slow and no real suspense.
One-note but workmanlike
Barely.
I love to read books set in interesting places or historical settings. I especially love mysteries and thrillers.
"My first Nicci French book"
The story started off brisk with the first abduction, but then the story became so slow that I found my mind would wonder instead of wanting to listening. Eventually, I would get back on track and enjoy parts of the story.
One of my pet peeves with audio books is when there is natural break in the story to accommodate a switch of scenario and characters, the narrator should take a significant pause instead of continuing to narrate as if the last sentence of one scene flows into the first sentence of the next scene. To be fair, I don't know if that is the narrators fault or the way the audio book is put together. Anyway, I had to replay parts of the book over and over to get the meaning of all the twists and turns and many different characters.
In the end, I rate the characters well written, but the story was not appealing to me. That is probably more my taste in subject than a flaw of the authors. I do feel that the writers are worth another try and will pick another book of theirs sometime in the near future.
"Dragged out Too Long"
The last hour of the book was the only interesting part of the whole book. It took forever to get to the point. Because the end was interesting, I am going to seek out the next in the "series'.... The narration was fun to listen to as I am American. I liked the accent.
Move it along quicker....less cursing. I want to read a story, not have to censor it.
If she read the whole thing by herself, she did amazing at the different voices and keeping them the same throughout.
The mom.....that whole part was a waste and too much cursing. I want to read a story, not censor it.