• Strange Practice

  • A Dr Greta Helsing Novel
  • By: Vivian Shaw
  • Narrated by: Suzannah Hampton
  • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (25 ratings)

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Strange Practice

By: Vivian Shaw
Narrated by: Suzannah Hampton
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Publisher's summary

Meet Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead. After inheriting a highly specialised and highly peculiar medical practice, Dr Helsing spends her days treating London's undead for a host of ills: vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights and entropy in mummies.

Although barely making ends meet, this is just the quiet, supernatural-adjacent life Greta's dreamed of since childhood. But when a sect of murderous monks emerges, killing human and undead alike, Greta must use all her unusual skills to keep her supernatural clients - and the rest of London - safe.

©2017 Vivian Shaw (P)2017 Little Brown Book Group

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"A darkly delicious adventure featuring a quirky new heroine. Strange Practice breathes new life into the undead." (James Bennett, author of Chasing Embers)

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Wrong narrator - returning

I like the premise, but I just cannot handle listening to this narrator. If this was released again with a different narrator, I'd give it another go.

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Strangely enjoyable

The best part of the book is the great group of characters who spring from the page as they solve a string of serial murders in London.

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Great story, so and so narration.

The narrators voice was nice, but overall she was pretty bad at giving individuals different voices, thus confusing me at times.
The story however was very nice and somewhat heartwarming. Cozy even.

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Narrator just read the book

It’s difficult to follow the story from time to time because it’s written from many characters stands and the narrator never changes her voice so you have to follow very closely to understand which character she is reading.
The story is good, so another narrator would make it much better to listen to.

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Magical

The detail and maturity of the author is prestine. A lovely sci-fi fantasy drenched in folklore and gothic romance. Also impossible to pull yourself away from. The character development is so full and full. Loved this book!

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