Another excellent Brookmyre book

Well written, keeps you intrigued until the end.
Narration was great for my first venture into Audible.

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Excellent

Gosh I wasn't expecting to like this book as much as I did. It was riveting with a couple of good twists near the end.

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Absolutely Brilliant

I read this in 2019 but, although I knew I had enjoyed it, I had forgotten a lot of the plot. Christopher Brookmyre has never written a bad book, and this doesn't disappoint. The story is wonderful. poignant, empathic, gripping, sad, with a well thought out plot and ending. Cathleen McCarron's narration is superb and really enhances the story.
This works as a stand alone novel, but also nicely includes a nod to another well loved Brookmyre character.
I can't praise this highly enough. I'm looking forward to listening to it again in a couple of years time.

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Interesting fare

All my dates with Chris Brookmyre up until this point have been chaperoned by Jack Parlabane, so it was with some trepidation that I ventured into Fallen Angel. The story was very clever, very sad and encompassed eloquently expressed emotion. I must, at this juncture, give a standing ovation to Cathleen McCarron for her outstanding voice performance. She slipped easily between the different accents and I was thoroughly impressed. Whilst Jack Parlabane did make a cameo appearance, I did miss his dark humour and sarcastic, biting tongue. But obviously it is completely unreasonable of me to expect Mr Brookmyre to restrict his writing to one character. This foray into a different kind of thriller was very good and I enjoyed it. I just think I'm struggling with the concept of Chris Brookmyre without Jack Parlabane, it's a bit like when Take That lost Robbie Williams, only with less teenage, female hysteria. I intend to listen to more of Mr Brookmyre's Parlabaneless work and I'm sure once my feelings of loss have worn off, I'll appreciate it for the genuinely good writing, character led stories of excellence to which we have become accustomed. I do recommend you listen to Fallen Angel straight away because you can always thank me later.

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Slightly surprised by other negative reviews

I thought that this was an interesting book and despite the very appalled reviews preceding mine I thought the subject matter was interesting and handled well. Overall I do like Brookmyre’s stuff with some exceptions so if you are like me then I would give it a go and disregard earlier reviews

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Good plot, awful narration

The plot was really interesting but the book was totally spoilt by the god awful accents and ponderous reading by the narrator. Sad as bet it would have been better to read it in paper form.

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Very Clever!

Loved it even though some of it was hard to listen to! Fantastic to see other characters brought in from other books! I did guess the ending with 2+ hours to go but it not often I find a book that throws me. I think I've now read most of Chris Brookmyre's books and he's definitely a firm favourite! I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for more books in the future! worth every credit! I'm actually sad there's no more for now!

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good but not his best

definitely one for fans of brookemyre, the narration is brilliant. look forward to the next one

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Another splendid story!

Great twisting and turning story. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Am off to download another Brookmire! 😊

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Great story, well read

This was an excellent story full of twists and turns. Very well delivered.
Loved it.

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