Harm-ful to Miss

What a little gem this book is. if I had not looked who had wrote this book, I would have thought it had been somebody like Martina Cole. Having Annie Aldington as the narrator was a great move as I have listened to her a few times and and she is great.
A real surprise & glad I chose this book.

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fast paced but poor writing

‘he says’ ‘she says’ ‘I say’ oh lord, not again. Can’t anyone write a decent book any more without constantly repeating what quotes will tell us anyway? apparently not. The book has pace certainly. it’s fast and packed full of action but, how can somebody be pulled to their feet and then stand? Poor writing as I have stated lets the book down. The narration is fairly good but the accents leave something to be desired. I read it, that’s about all there is to add here.

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I wanted to love this but...

I just didn't. The main story was so "choose your own adventure" I couldn't care about what happened next. The gangland flashbacks are so depressing, I couldn't face any more. I'm also perplexed by the fans of the narrator; every time she mispronounced something like carotid (as "caratoid") and corticosteroids, it pulled me right out of the story, her 'american' accents are terrible and the young people's voices are like ripping tin. Sorry Hugh, just not my cup of tea.

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Fast paced thriller

Never a dull moment with this book. The narrator is excellent! Warning! There is violence & sexual abuse but I thoroughly enjoyed this listen.

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Very enjoyable.

I didn’t think I was going to like this book as I’m not keen on a cockney accent but the story was intriguing and so I carried on. I must admit the narration was superb and was quite taken with the main character Rena.

Overall well worth reading.

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Great narration

Great story made better by Annie Aldington, fast pace book couldn’t stop listening. I liked the main character you were given a good background so you felt for her although she wasn’t the most pleasant of character’s.

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Una paloma blanca

This hard little bird flies her way through crimes large and even larger. Her personal revelations and trust issues all cause her to be where she finds herself in 1974. The tale is well narrated, almost mesmeric, but so enjoyable with it's intensity and tension, not knowing exactly what is around each bend in the road. Rina flutters in and out of horrible situations, like a pigeon trying to find her way to a home, not like any home she grew up in, but an ideal HEA.

I am from this era, so knew there would be a couple of errors with inventions and tech from the time, but only found two. 1.
the wrong English police caution is quoted; the police caution changed in 1990s, the new one is the one quoted. 2. Telephony was not as easy as in the story. At my house we did not have our own line until 1975, before that we had a party line, with calls connected by the operator even for local calls. A private phone in a home was still not standard at this time. You had to book an international call, and sometimes wait hours to be connected.

ENJOYABLE TALE

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Good story, but difficult to listen to the narrator.

A good story, but I personally didn’t enjoy the narration. Trying to move from a tough London gangster girl accent to a hard nosed Mexican drug baron….she just couldn’t pull it off and it sounded, well, just weird.

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Enjoyable

Fast moving and absorbing , it’s not great “literature” but a good story and I enjoyed listening to it . I enjoyed the narration and will probably listen to the rest of the series

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Brilliant!!

I loved this audiobook - LOVED!

My God, housework was never so much fun before audiobooks - these days it'd be impossible for me to even contemplate trying do stuff around the house without one on!!

Straight into what will hopefully be a terrific book 2, I mean one can't really go wrong... gangland London (I literally used to live a couple of streets away from the main streets in the book - and that's always fun to read!), a lesbian contract killer with a dysfunctional family life and history, dual time periods of her young self and Rina now through alternate chapters, starting in the 50's and moving forward through time (a really interesting way to have written it) and the hope of a HEA for Rina - whichever way she swings - is all good for me!!

THEN!!! Add ANNIE "The Dog's Bollocks of Narration" ALDINGTON to the mix and OMFG a whole other level of AWESOME is reached *sighs happily* ...it doesn't get much better than this friends!

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