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Five Bloody Hearts
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Series: Detective Matt Ballard, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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Summary
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- Mrs. Linda M. Rhodes
- 28-01-20
Improvement
I have to say that this was a vast improvement on the first Matthew Ballard book. Also a much better narrator.
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-04-20
Every Good Book needs a Good reader
Again An excellent story with the usual twists and turns , but I thought the reader was very poor . Unlike book 1 where the reader kept the story moving and the reading was very clear. In this book the story pace was slow and sometimes the voice was inaudible , and the drama just disappeared.
6 people found this helpful
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- Kirsten
- 13-01-20
Great story but bad narration
The narrator’s accents make it very confusing to follow and not as good to listen to as other Joy Ellis books. It becomes distracting but I love her books and persevered. Glad I did cos the story line was great with lots of twists and turns
5 people found this helpful
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- Mrs. A. Crawford
- 13-08-20
Disappointing
The change of narrator ruined this book for me. He sounds bored. I lost interest in the story due to this.
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- Chanty
- 02-11-19
Five Bloody Hearts
Another great story and well narrated.
Looking forward to the next Joy Ellis audible book to listen to. I’ve made sure I’ve purchased all of her books in order because I’d hate to miss the previous story, there’s none I’ve missed so far.
Enjoy!
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- The Aardvark
- 22-10-19
Decent follow up to "Beware the Past"
Worth listening to if you've heard the first book in the Matt Ballad series. Otherwise I'm not sure how good the storyline is. Narration OK but the Welsh and Scottish accents were very wobbly.
3 people found this helpful
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- Lizzy
- 20-10-19
Great second outing
A fantastic follow up to a great series debut, this outing has so many twists and turns that you’ll never guess what’s happening till right near the end, if you guess at all! I really hope that this continues because I think Matt Ballard has more stories to tell!
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- mrs e jackson
- 02-10-19
Keeps you guessing right till the end
Another Joy Ellis success.
The twists and turns keep you guessing all the way through.
The only negative comment is the narrator. He just doesn’t have the range of accents or the ability to sound different when it comes to women’s voices. Also at times he sounded bored!!
3 people found this helpful
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- J A Phillips
- 09-06-20
A total mystery with twists
A very good story with plenty of twists. A very enjoyable read. Joy Ellis is an excellent writer.
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- Ninja
- 01-06-20
Great read
Well read every single time, enjoyed the twists and turns. Looking forward to book 3.
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- Wayne
- 08-06-20
Disappointed!!
All Joy Ellis novels are in my Audible library. FIVE BLOODY HEARTS is the first to fail to earn 4 or 5 stars. This 10 hour audio novel contains at least 3 hours of useless fill words that do not add/contribute to the story. The plot is quite interesting. The narration is barely acceptable.
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- Maine Knitter
- 05-10-19
Much better narrator
This took me a long time to get through the first few chapters. I’d start and stop and start over. At least the new narrator is 100% better than the reader of the previous book.
The story was interesting - eventually. I was disturbed by the relationship between Matt and Liz in the last book and I’m glad to see how that was resolved. Now Matt is awaiting retirement and Liz is recovering from their last case. A copycat killer, the original murderer now in prison, his fiancée, and other murders that appear to be a national feud keep Ballard and his team very busy. Red herrings abound. I figured out the killer (at least partly) before the end. I liked the Nikki Galena reference.
I’ve read the other series by Joy Ellis. She’s an automatic pre-order author for me.
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- BookGirl
- 24-09-19
When will Matt recover?
After listening to the first book...I was hoping for a recovered in-charge DCI; not so; and the narrator did not help, work to be done here. While the cast of characters are interesting, not enough to add to my "buy every one in the series list" . I will return this one. Hope they will get better, and that Matt will fully recover.
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- jimfarrell
- 09-09-19
worth it, even with the overdramatic reading
cool story, like the characters, not a fan of the narration (at all) ; but worth it if you need to listen instead of read (like myself) - this is definitely one book i wish i could've read myself
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- LEBla
- 05-10-19
Good story - terrible narration
The characters in this book are from previous storylines but because of the narration i couldn’t recognize them until well into the story. Very disappointing.
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- Carole
- 25-09-19
oops!
It was good, but I suspected the real killer from almost the beginning. Kim was correct!
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- Diana Hart 33
- 10-01-20
book 2
I sorta had this one figured out at the beginning, and it turned out I was right, but I still enjoyed it a lot. other than the narrator getting to quiet at times because the character was whispering or something, he was very good.
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- Garden Womble
- 02-10-20
Another Ellis treat!
I wasn't sure how much I really liked Ballard after the first book in this series, but I'm warming up to him now! I think I was just too spoiled by DI Galena and had trouble easing into a new character set. I love the way that Ellis uses Rory in both series, although it's a bit jarring when the narrators are different and Rory speaks with a different voice! None the less, I like the cross-overs between the series. I also liked the way that this mystery was, albeit tangentially, connected to the last. Interesting twists!
I look forward to the next in series!
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- Mesajazz
- 17-03-22
Read Don’t Listen on This One
This was the worst narration I have ever heard. Cartoonish possibly? Very low level skill and extremely over-acted. I did listen to the whole book, as I am trying to get through the Ballard series, but even the plot was iffy for me. This narrator is top of my list on who to avoid on Audible.
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- cdigo
- 21-11-21
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I liked the 1st book in this series but this one was sooooooooooo slowwwwwww. No character to root for, basically it was boring. I kept listening to see if it would get better but no. I preferred the narrator in the 1st book to this guy.