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The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow

By: Amy McCulloch, Zoe Sugg
Narrated by: Jill Winternitz, Katie Leung, Laurence Dobiesz, Olivia Darnley
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Brought to you by Penguin.

The brand new series from Zoe Sugg and Amy McCulloch


Illumen Hall is an elite boarding school. Tragedy strikes when the body of a student is discovered at their exclusive summer party - on her back is an elaborate tattoo of a magpie.

When new girl Audrey arrives the following term, running from her own secrets back home in America, she is thrown into solving the case. Despite her best efforts to avoid any drama, her new roommate Ivy was close to the murdered girl, and the two of them can't help but get pulled in.

The two can't stand each other, but as they are drawn deeper into the mystery of this strange and terrible murder, they will discover that something dangerous is at the heart of their superficially perfect school.

Welcome to The Magpie Society.

One for Sorrow will be told via the alternating first person perspectives of the lead characters Audrey - written by Amy - and Ivy - written by Zoe - with the narrative being jointly plotted by both authors.

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Mr Tavistock has a Scottish accent one chapter, and a posh English accent the next! The two narrators have definitely not communicated before recording! Not the best American accents either, sadly!

Accent discrepancies

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I was really excited for this and I got into it, the story progresses well and you get behind the leading characters. In saying that, the ending was disappointing. Nothing was resolved and there wasn't a big enough of a cliff hanger.

3nding

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I enjoyed this story and thought the performance was good. It was let down by the sudden and inconclusive ending though, quite frustrating and would make me think twice about buying a follow-up book

Mostly good

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Following in the footsteps of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, S.T.A.G.S. and One of Us is Lying was never going to be easy and sadly this book was disappointing. There was the start of a good plot but it never seemed to go anywhere and it was too predictable. Good narration though.

Well-narrated but weak story

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Great narration, built suspense, kept you guessing, ended too abruptly without bringing it together

Intriguing

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