Reconstruction

De: Mick Herron

Narrado por: Julia Franklin

When a young man breaks into South Oxford Nursery School with a gun and takes a group of hostages, teacher Louise Kennedy is fearful. But Jaime Segura isn’t there on a homicidal mission.

Bad Sam Chapman - head of the intelligence service’s internal security force, the Dogs - tries to find out what Jaime is after. But the only person Jaime will talk to is Ben Whistler, an MI6 colleague of Jaime’s lover, Miro - who has gone missing with a quarter of a billion pounds....

©2008 Mick Herron (P)2020 Isis Publishing Ltd

Good book Cringe worthy narrator

Why have the narrator introduce herself at the beginning of the novel? It just distracts from the novel and inserts her ostentatious personality. She over emotes at every opportunity. Hearing her act like a child is just creepy not to mention her swallowing saliva. Ick.

Excellent Story and narration

The story was well developed and engaging. I particularly appreciated Ms. Franklin’s introduction and Explanation about how she would narrate this book.

Good story

I have a new favorite British spy author.. Excellent characters. I recommend this book.

Not best Mick Herron

Mick Herron is a very good writer, and I can imagine why the structure of this story intrigued him. I found it rather tedious in places, however, and felt he was a bit too clever for his own good. Don’t mean to sound snarky because I am a fan—just not so much of this one.

Slow Burn

Or more a controlled burn?
So twisty it was hard to follow sometimes. Very Creative and fun and great characters. Can just one woman character not be a caretaker wife school teacher vindictive bitch?

worst reader ever

I tried to get past it because I am a huge Herron fan and love the audio editions of the Slough House series, but this reader is incredibly overbearing. Way way too much emphasis on every. single. word. The scenery chewing overacting is such that I couldn't follow the plot—far too distracted by the overdone voicing. (Not good in so many ways, including: why does she use a thick, Boris-and-Natasha Russian accent to voice a hispanic character????) I got maybe halfway through, kept having to rewind whole chapters to try to hear the story rather than the hamfest vocal performance, and finally just couldn't take it any more, gave up and returned for refund credit.

I love Mick Heron but

This isn’t his best. Writing is clever but the story is too drawn out. A few less repeated phrases and themes might have helped.

Not as good as the Slough House series.

A main character is supposed to be Hispanic, but the reader’s idea of a Spanish accent sounds more Eastern European.

terrible narration, ok story

as a yank I truly admire the diversity of accents in the UK and the Slough House book's narrator does a great job with those inflections. this narrator, however, ruins the story for me. why does she constantly drag one syllable words out into three syllables?? the male characters are nearly incomprehensible and this is supposed to be a Hispanic accent?!?

Difficult to follow in this audio version

Mick Herron’s work is always brilliant and entertaining but this audio version was especially difficult to follow. The lack of chapter or character identifications took away from comprehension.