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  • Dark Resurrection

  • The Colony, Book 2
  • By: F. G. Cottam
  • Narrated by: David Rintoul
  • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (151 ratings)
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Dark Resurrection

By: F. G. Cottam
Narrated by: David Rintoul
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Summary

Five years after a tragic expedition put New Hope Island back in the headlines, past-his-prime crime author Dennis Thorpe leads a writers' retreat to that secluded corner of the Hebrides.... The group is never seen again.

Ruthie Gillespie, the beautiful, heavily tattooed, hard-drinking author of dark tales for children, was supposed to be among their number, but something stopped her at the eleventh hour, and it isn't long before the police come knocking. With her escape tying her irrevocably to the case, Ruthie falls deeper and deeper into a web of dark magic and darker secrets as it becomes clear that the writers' pasts are not what they seem.

How far can you take an investigation when your own life is threatened? Do you continue, knowing that you must find the answers before the island claims another victim? Or do you run and hope that it never catches up with you?

©2015 Francis Cottam (P)2016 Audible, Ltd

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Mixed experience

I listened to The Colony back in 2013. I enjoyed it and was looking forward to this follow-up. I listened to The Going and the Rise novella first. This features a character, Ruthie, who then has a prominent role in Dark Resurrection. Annoyingly, a detailed summary of The Going is featured in DR. This is the most obvious example of padding-out this long novel.

I wish I had revisited The Colony before listening to DR. Some of the characters from DR feature in the new novel and I couldn't remember their back story. Like The Colony, I found that this novel had far too many characters and distinguishing some of them was not easy.

I stuck with the story to the end but it took a lot of effort. It seemed very long and didn't sustain my inteterest.

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Good sequel but flawed again

If you enjoyed the first book you'll probably still enjoy this. Some of the same problems remain, if anything the repetition of the backstory and the exposition has got worse. The new characters are essentially the same as the old ones.

Additionally, the balance of the forces on the island has changed which seemed a bit unlikely all things considered and seems to have been done to shape the new story than because if fitted within the existing story.

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Colony Trilogy part 2 - Excellent

David Rintoul narrates superbly - a pleasure to listen to. Thoroughly enjoyed the story and very much looking forward to Part 3

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A gripping sequel

Thus is even better than the first book.
A believable and very dark tale, well told

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Good Listen

I’ve come straight to this after listening to the first book in The Colony series. I had to purchase extra credits for it and for the last in the series which I am going to start listening immediately. Says it all I think.

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Brief flashes of a good story

Some books by this author are quite brilliant but, sadly, this is not one of them.
It follows on from The Colony, recapping EVERYTHING that happened, creating an enormous (and confusing) cast of live, dead and undead characters.
Most of the story circles round and round, reiterating how ghosts haunt the dreaded highland isle and bad things happen there. So why go, again?
Often it felt like a YA book, repeating that being in your thirties isn’t old and how everyone fancies goth girl Ruthie.
I was also tempted to take a wee nip every time folk singer Kate Rusby was mentioned but I would’ve been paralytic.
Despite glorious narration by David Rintoul, I lost track of who was where and doing what. This was a shame as there were brief moments (like the scenes in the bookshop and in Ireland) that reminded me of Cottam’s better books.
Here, the big reveal really doesn’t make any sense so read or listen to The Lazarus Prophesy instead.

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2nd of 3

David Rintoul does another excellent job of reading FG Cottam’s follow up book about New Hope Island. Clever, well constructed and imaginative.

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Brilliant sequel

Brilliant, and heart-rending. Mr Cottam's characters are real enough that one grieves for their lost futures, and feels interested in what the survivors will do next. So, download Harvest of Scorn right away!

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Not convinced about this one

I don't know if this book was for me as I became bored with how the story seemed to drag on .I prefer scarry stories, so I'm gonna stick with Ron Ripley 😊 KAZ Bedford 🧡

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Terrifying and Tragic.

Suspense, sorrow, solitude, sacrifice, strength; sea, sand and the supernatural! Spiffing story to stir the senses.

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