Reviews by Naomi

Name: Naomi (leixlip, Ireland)
Reviews Written: 18
Titles Rated: 154

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  • When Will There Be Good News?
    By Kate Atkinson
    Narrated By Steven Crossley
    Overall
    (164)
    Performance
    (2)
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    (2)
    In Devon, six-year-old Joanna witnesses a crime. Thirty years later, the man convicted of the crime gets out of prison. In Edinburgh,16-year-old Reggie works as for a doctor. But Dr Hunter goes missing & Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried.
    "Disappointed"
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    I was very disappointed with this book, as I found just too many unbelievable coincidences throughout this book, it just wasn?t in anyway credible.

    2 of 3 people found this review helpful
  • 1Q84
    By Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (translator), Philip Gabriel (translator)
    Narrated By Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
    Overall
    (426)
    Performance
    (12)
    Story
    (11)
    The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

    A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....

    "Would not recommend it"
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    This was not my usual genre, but I was in the mood for something different. Took me six weeks to get through it, I somehow managed to stick with it. The woman narration is very slow and half way through I got the bright idea to increase the narration speed. I am glad I listened to this book, but I don’t think I will read any more from this author. The story does seem to ramble on and on, and very conveniently wraps up at the end. It didn’t blow me away that’s for sure

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Company of Liars
    By Karen Maitland
    Narrated By David Thorpe
    Overall
    (650)
    Performance
    (10)
    Story
    (10)
    On this day of ill omen, plague makes its entrance. Within weeks, swathes of England will be darkened by death's shadow. While panic and suspicion flood the land, a small band of travelers comes together to outrun the breakdown in law and order. But when one of their number is found hanging from a tree, the chilling discovery confirms that something more sinister than plague is in their midst.
    "A Good Read. Excellent Narrator"
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    The main reason I am writing this review, is to acknowledge how brilliant the narrator was David Thorpe. For me, he made this mediocre book a great book, for his energy and dialects he introduced. The story was a good read, not my usual genre. But would recommend it.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Invisible Ones
    By Stef Penney
    Narrated By Dan Stevens
    Overall
    (73)
    Performance
    (3)
    Story
    (3)
    Small-time private investigator Ray Lovell veers between paralysis and delirium in a hospital bed. But before the accident that landed him there, he had promised to find Rose Janko. Rose was married to the charismatic son of a travelling gypsy family, Ivo Janko. When Ray starts to investigate her disappearance he's surprised that her family are so hostile towards him.
    "A Good Read"
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    I really enjoyed this book. I havent read anything from this author before so I had no expectations. The narrator Dan Stevens was excellent and gave the book an extra depth. The storyline I enjoyed going back and forth between the two characters. And on reflection I can see the clues the author has given us towards the storyline. I enjoyed the book and would reconmend it.

    2 of 3 people found this review helpful
  • Afterwards
    By Rosamund Lupton
    Narrated By Finty Williams
    Overall
    (100)
    Performance
    (2)
    Story
    (2)
    There is a fire and they are in There. They are in there.... Black smoke stains a summer blue sky. A school is on fire. And one mother, Grace, sees the smoke and runs. She knows her teenage daughter Jenny is inside. She runs into the burning building to rescue her. Afterwards, Grace must find the identity of the arsonist and protect her family from the person who's still intent on destroying them. Afterwards, she must fight the limits of her physical strength and discover the limitlessness of love.
    "Disappointing"
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    Even now I can feel the enjoyment of Sister, which I really enjoyed. Afterwards is nothing in comparison with Sister. I kept wishing the book to end. I found the whole concept without giving the game away a joke. The story kept going around and around in circles. Certain situations I realized the outcome, half way through the book. I wouldn’t recommend it.

    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • The Calling of the Grave
    By Simon Beckett
    Narrated By Jonathan Keeble
    Overall
    (129)
    Performance
    (5)
    Story
    (5)
    'At first glance it could have been anything - a stone, a knotted root - until you looked more closely. Thrusting out of the wet earth, its bones visible through rags of flesh, was a decomposing hand...'It was eight years ago that they found the body buried on the moor. They were certain that this was one of psychotic rapist and multiple murderer Jerome Monk's teenage victims. Which left just two more bodies to find.
    "Worth a listen!"
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    I really enjoyed this book, a little predictable in the end. The narrator Jonathan Keeble was excellent.

    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • Or She Dies
    By Gregg Hurwitz
    Narrated By Jeff Harding
    Overall
    (18)
    Performance
    (1)
    Story
    (2)
    First, Patrick receives a DVD in the post. It shows footage of him and his wife Ariana walking, dressing, going to work - all filmed by cameras hidden in their house. Someone is clearly out to get him. And then the email arrives: GO ALONE. TELL NO ONE. DO WHAT WE SAY. OR SHE DIES. Patrick's life is turned upside down. Suddenly this has become a matter of life and death.
    "Awful"
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    This is the first time I have listened to this author and I doubt if I will again. I found this book really tedious and left me not caring if I listened to it to the end. The story line seemed to ramble on adding on arms and legs to the story which I found to be quiet unbelievable. I found the narrators women voices very irritating :(

    2 of 3 people found this review helpful
  • The Snowman: A Harry Hole Thriller, Book 7
    By Jo Nesbo
    Narrated By Sean Barrett
    Overall
    (616)
    Performance
    (14)
    Story
    (14)
    The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is his mother's pink scarf.Inspector Harry Hole is convinced there is a link between the disappearance and a menacing letter he received some months earlier.
    "Fantastic Listen!"
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    This is my first Jo Nesbo audio read/listen The Snowman, I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish. The narrator Sean Barrett was excellent. I did find the characters names a little difficult to keep track of and had to re-run a few pieces. Will definitely listen to more of this brilliant author.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Play Dead
    By Harlan Coben
    Narrated By Robert Slade
    Overall
    (116)
    Performance
    (3)
    Story
    (3)
    When basketball player David Baskin disappears on honeymoon and a mutilated body, assumed to be his, is discovered, his ex-model wife, Laura, is plagued by questions and doubts. Then a total unknown startles the basketball world with a style of play exactly like Baskin's. As Laura begins to uncover a conspiracy, she risks her life and those around her to uncover the truth before it destroys everyone involved.
    "Play Dead"
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    I actually enjoyed this book from the point of view of guessing what will happen next. I have not read many of his books, but the ones I did listen to I really did enjoy. I did wonder why the narrator was male?

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • Freedom
    By Jonathan Franzen
    Narrated By David Ledoux
    Overall
    (167)
    Performance
    (1)
    Story
    (1)
    Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of too much liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom's intensely realized characters, as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.
    "Freedom"
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    I'm with Mal, another reviewer, No No No No No! Totally boring!

    0 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • Darkhouse
    By Alex Barclay
    Narrated By Kerry Shale
    Overall
    (1)
    Performance
    (0)
    Story
    (0)
    When a routine investigation comes to a violent and tragic end, Detective Joe Lucchesi takes leave from the NYPD and moves with his wife and son to a quiet village on the south east coast of Ireland. They're happy, they're safe...and they're about to enter a nightmare more terrifying than the one they left behind.
    "Darkhouse"
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    Don?t bother is my adivice! Extremely disappointing and predictable story line. With an irritating narrator with so many different dialects to do. The only good point only three and half hours long

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
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