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A Sense of Danger
- Section 47, Book 1
- Narrated by: Helen Laser, Grant Cartwright
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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A spy...
My name is Charlotte Locke, and I’m an analyst for Section 47, a secret government agency that tracks terrorists, criminals, and other paramortal bad guys who want to unleash their abilities on an unsuspecting mortal world. I have a magical form of synesthesia that senses danger and uncovers lies - making me a stealthy operative.
I’m trudging through another day when one of Section’s cleaners - assassins - takes an interest in me. I don’t need my synesthesia to realize that he is extremely dangerous and that he will do anything to achieve his goals - even if it means putting me in the line of fire.
...and an assassin
I’m Desmond Percy, one of Section 47’s most lethal cleaners. I’m also a man on a mission, and I need Charlotte Locke’s skills to help me keep a promise, settle a score, and kill some extremely bad people.
Charlotte might not like me, but we’re stuck together until my mission is over. Still, the more time we spend together, the more I’m drawn to her. But at Section 47, you never know who you can trust - or who might want you dead.
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- CLL
- 01-17-21
meh
This book is just okay. There are some interesting parts especially where all the pieces are put together near the end. Sadly those interesting parts are few and far between.
The dialogue is stilted and poorly phrased in certain technical situations. The author obviously didn't do enough research into what happens leading up to, running and after running convert ops, and relied on trait dialogue that one would see in B rated tv.
The female narrator was decent and had a better Australian accent than the male narrator who was narrating the character who was supposed to have an Australian accent. The male narrator's accents leaves a lot to be desired and he kept slipping in and out of I badly executed Australian accent throughout his whole narration and it was distracting.
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- Dennis
- 01-29-21
Story concept ok, but...
I was disappointed in this story! Like most authors, there is plenty of filler, but usually it is story related to the main theme! A lot of this filler was about the color of the clothing and the shoes, etcetera, and introspection of past life experiences!
And then it became a romance novel! Not what I was expecting nor wanted! I will not continue any more of this series! Nor this author!
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- Aryn
- 02-18-21
needs a single narrator
I liked the story, although the repetition was a nagging subtext. I've read others of her stuff, so expected the callous disregard for life. But the two narrators were at odds with personalities. I would have preferred to have just the female narrator (greater range and definitely more diverse character representation). All in all, I think if there is a book two, I'd be reading it instead of hearing it...
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- Kindle Customer
- 11-15-20
loved it.
I loved Jennifer's new story, as I have loved all her stories. There were some great characters throughout the book. Had good action and story line, it was fun learning about all the different senses the characters had. I thought their nick names were great. I liked Charlottes snarky attitude, and Desmond's accent and how he always seemed laid back. I enjoyed having more than one voice read the book. I hope Jennifer makes a series. If she does I really hope she makes the next book about Charlotte's friend. He's VERY sexy.
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- Renee O.
- 11-28-20
An Exciting Adventure!
I freaking loved this audiobook! The characters were fantastic and exactly how I enjoy them. This is the perfect listen to take your troubles off your mind. Charlotte has plenty of her own. Narration was very good.
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- Jonita Bonhomme
- 12-03-20
A sense of perfection
Halfway through this book my only disappointment was that this is the first of what I hope is a long series. the characters are very well written and performed by true professionals. I highly recommend this book to anyone.
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- Jen Kyle
- 11-15-20
Danger
I enjoyed this story. It was unique and fun. I was excited to see what would happen. *spoiler* Trying to guess who is the mole was my mission throughout the story.
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- Cherlym
- 01-05-21
Worth it
Definitely worth hanging on. The danger, danger, danger drove me crazy in the beginning. Once that was cut back a little the book took off. Love the paranormal aspect,totally different. In for a great ride.
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- Deb H
- 02-06-21
Good story
I enjoy Jennifer's writing and the way she tells a story. Her characters are well developed and her women are always strong and capable.
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- Olivia
- 01-05-21
Could’ve been great
As always, I love the characters Jennifer has created. Charlotte’s narrator is great. However, Desmond‘s narrator keeps pulling me out of the story. I hope they find another person to narrate his part next time, because it really detracts from the overall work. It’s like he’s fighting letting his own accent come out, which in turn makes his narration stilted. It would’ve been much better to let his English accent come through in place of the Aussie one instead of trying to speak with an American accent.
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- Berenice
- 02-18-23
should have just used the female reader
Male reader supposed to be australian more like a very stilted james bond.
female reader can do an australian accent and speaks at a decent reading speed
next time just choose one reader please.
this really was distracting and annoying.
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- 11-16-21
Tightly Written and Entertaining
I’d probably give this book 4.5 ⭐️ If could.
This is a standalone Urban Fantasy novel, with elements of romance. The romance is not the main driving force of the plot, but there are undercurrents until the end when it becomes more important. There are no cliffhangers, but it feels like there could be more books written in this series if the author chose, because not all loose ends are tied off.
Charlotte Locke is an analyst who works for a shady government agency, Section 47. Section 47 deals with terrorists, dangerous criminals and other paramortals who are a danger to society. The people who work for Section 47 are paramortals, many who are ‘Legacies’ or people whose family worked for Section 47 too, and trained their offspring in the family trade. Charlotte Locke’s father and grandmother both worked for Section 47 and her father in particular was a notorious Cleaner who died in the line of duty. Charlotte decided to follow in her grandmother’s footsteps and become an analyst because her the danger from her father’s job often followed him home and put Charlotte in danger too.
Charlotte uses her paramortals abilities of being able to sense truth, lies and danger, to uncover secrets and then uses her mighty brain to interpret the data that she discovers. When her abilities go off around a new guy in the building, she knows he must be a Cleaner and his interest in her makes her very suspicious.
Desmond Percy is another Legacy. He’s one of the most deadly Cleaners in Section 47, and he’s moved to Washington DC to find out why his last mission went horribly wrong and caused his best friend’s death. He’s read some of Charlotte’s reports and knows she’s his best hope of tracking down the paramortals responsible. He tries his usual smooth charm and good looks approach, not knowing Charlotte’s abilities and intelligence spot his ulterior motives a mile away. He’s going to have to work a lot harder than normal to get her on his side.
I really enjoyed the world building in this book. The abilities of the paramortals are well thought out and I like how Charlotte and Desmond’s abilities complement each other. The framework of Section 47 is set up interestingly and I enjoyed learning about how it all worked, as well as finding out about the various characters working there.
Charlotte is a fantastic character. She has a fantastic mind, a useful set of skills and was highly trained by both her grandmother and father, who had very different skill sets. It makes her a very dangerous woman. She also has a very well defined set of morals. They might not follow the rules other people set, but she always acts in the way she believes best and that fits in with her moral framework. She is determined and capable of following through with her plans no matter what.
Desmond is not quite as interesting, but he’s still a good solid character, who provides a great foil for Charlotte. He’s brave, strong, arrogant and ruthless. He gets the job done, no matter the cost. Though Charlotte does make his tiny conscience tweak a little for how he plans to use her.
The plot was very tightly written, which is no surprise to anyone who’s read this author before. She writes great stories that engage your brain as well as your emotions as you grow to care about the characters at the same time as you wonder what is going to happen next.
The narrators were pretty good and definitely increased my enjoyment though the accents were a little dicey in places, which is not uncommon when you through an Australian accent at an American narrator. Other than that they were engaging and convincing actors with each narrator solely reading their relevant chapters.
I really hope that there are more books written about this world, and especially these characters, because I think Charlotte may be one of my favourite characters to come from this author.
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- Eva
- 07-03-23
Horrible male reader
The story is acceptable (interesting take, but a bit cringe/cliché in dialogue) and I was entertained. The female reader deserves 4 stars, but the male reader! Yikes! I’m not difficult and this is the first time in 5 years of subscribing to Audible, that I’ve really disliked a reader. He has the most weird breaks in the sentences, and really misses the mark with the accent.
Every time there was a switch to him I considered to stop listening, but the story was interesting enough that I chose to continue.
So recommended, but not if you’re sensitive with who’s doing the reading.
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- Kindle Customer
- 12-24-21
Great Story!
I really enjoyed this book and hope that there will be more books from Section 47. Anyone who enjoyed SPI Files by Lisa Sherin will likely enjoy this book too.
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- Karlby71
- 08-19-21
Brilliant story, BUT !
Estep’s modern version of a female Bond !
But Cartwright and especially Laser are just wrong for an Estep novel.
It’s very difficult to listen to the entire story, if you’re able to read yourself buy an ebook or a physical book and enjoy this book.
I can’t read but everything by Estep, so fare, I have enjoyed over and over again, this is the first of her books I don’t know what to do with ???
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- AthenaNI
- 04-03-21
Enjoyable
If you're expecting this to be similar to Ms Estep's Gin Blanco series you will be disappointed. Whilst still in the UF genre this also falls into the whodunit/revenge genres.
I really enjoyed this book Dundee and Numbers kept me entertained whist I was spring cleaning in preparation to move house. My only niggle is the male narrator. This book is read in the first person, chapters mostly alternate between male and female, the female narrator is very good and acts the story, she really is having a conversation with her best friend or arguing with male main character. The male main character is Australian and the narrator's Strine comes and goes and at times sounds more like Roger Moore's James Bond. He comes across as reading the book and is quite stilted, he doesn't have the relaxed natural style of his female counterpart. When voicing other main characters this is not so evident. That is the only reason I gave the performance 4 stars instead of 4, if I could have given it 4.5 I would have.
This could become a good series and I'll keep watching for news of book 2.
Story. 4
Performance 4
Overall 4
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- Sarah
- 12-28-20
This makes me angry and sad
This story from the great Jennifer Estep should have been, well, great. But it wasn't - and one of the narrators was truly terrible.
It was an interesting idea for a book, with a decent heroine (very Gin-like) and some good/believable magical world building. But the ending was "meh", and I'm sure not sure I would bother with a Book 2.
Definitely NOT if the same man (Grant Cartwright) was employed as the narrator. He was supposed to be a handsome Australian with a Crocodile Dundee accent to match. Instead, he sounded like a robot who'd learn't English from High Grant.
TERRIBLE - I ended up by-passing the chapters he narrated - and plan on asking for my money back.
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- Nikki
- 12-11-20
Great story but what is up with the male narrator?!
So I really liked the storyline of this book, but the narration was just plain painful. The female narrator (Helen Laser) was great but the male (Grant Cartwright) seriously what is this guy on, no scratch that what the hell is the production company on. No sane person would listen back to his, stilted robot performance and go ‘yeah that sounds great’!
You can try and increase the speed of the audio but he then just sounds like a speeded up stilted robot. It’s ridiculous and really ruins what is actually a good book. It’s really hard to get past his weird performance, I stuck it out to the end but it was like nails down a chalk board at times 😖
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- MadHatter
- 10-15-22
Dreadful male narrator, but great female one
Unfortunately, this book was ruined for me by the atrocious narration of Grant Cartwright. His timing is plodding and robotic, full of unnecessarily long (and just unnecessary) pauses. What on earth did he think he was achieving? He sounds like a 1950’s newscaster. I spent way to much energy attempting to overlook his excruciating performance and trying to concentrate on the story instead. Also, his character is supposed to be Australian (and GC actually is), but sounds like a mix of American and Irish instead. The good news is that it appears they have replaced him in the sequel!
Helen Laser, in contrast, was excellent. Five Stars for her.
The novel itself was mostly good, but I simply could not get into it. Also, the ending was one long cliche. Everyone got to have their monologue, threaten each other, etc. There were no surprises here either. This was unexpected from such an accomplished author as Jennifer Estep. One person was able to move their hand faster than a fired bullet. Hmmm…
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- Anonymous User
- 08-07-22
Fantastic
Loved this maybe more than the spider series. If you like smart women this is for you.
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- Millsy
- 07-26-23
For the most part..
For the most part the story is really quite good. it did take a bit to get into the story and i don't think i ever really liked the main characters, i think i actually preferred the villains but the main characters were likeable enough to carry the interesting story. once the story gets into it it's pretty action packed though i could have done without the long winded sex scene at the end.
The female narrator is great and though many have complained extensively about the male narrator and he is a bit stilted at times, you do get used to his voice after the story itself becomes more interesting. whether i will buy book 2, before the long arse sex scenes i would have said Yep Absolutely but now, its pure
put me off a bit. i will have to think about it.
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