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Blueeyedboy

By: Joanne Harris
Narrated by: Colin Moody
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Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown, and Blue. Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive. Brown was the middle child, timid and dull. But Blue was his mother's favourite. And he was a murderer.

Blueeyedboy is the brilliant novel from Joanne Harris: a dark and intricately plotted tale of a poisonously dysfunctional family, a blind child prodigy, and a serial murderer who is not who he seems. Told through posts on a web journal called ‘badguysrock’, this is a thriller that makes creative use of all the multiple personalities, disguise, and mind games that are offered by playing out a life on the Internet.

©2010 Frogspawn Ltd (P)2010 Penguin Audio Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Murder

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I loved this when I read it, but this narrator is terrible. His Yorkshire accent is awful, his women sound like a Monty Python sketch, the Northern Irish (?) veers into something resembling a cowboy drawl, and whether the mother is Geordie/Scouse/Yorkshire remains a mystery.
It's a good story, kicking off a great series, but in dire need of rerecording.

Great book, disappointing narration

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It's a great story but why did the reader have to do all the female characters as if performing in a Monty Python sketch? It nearly made me give up

Annoying reading

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I found this a really disappointing book as I had loved all Joanna Harris' others.
It was very hard to listen to. I gave up after giving it a really good go. Sorry will not be recommending this. I found it hard to follow and the never ending 'blog' updates just annoyed me.

Not the best Joanne Harris

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The blogs at the beginnings of each chapter were irritating and at times I found the narrative opaque but otherwise this was Ms Harris on excellent form.
She skillfully misleads her readers with subtle misdirection but I will avoid spoilers.
Readers who enjoyed the St Oswald series will enjoy this.

Very clever

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Having "read" Gentlemen & Players I was looking forward to Blue Eyed Boy, but unfortunately it was a different narrator and his Yorkshire accent was just not up to scratch; veering between Geordie and Scouse and skirting Yorkshire via Manchester. The story however was up to Joanne Harris' usual high standard.

Disappointing narration

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