magnificent trilogy of morals, pigeons and death

Loved this trilogy of books and the narration from Aubrey Parsons was magnificent (as usual) So many characters which I loved and the storyline running through kept me hooked until the end. The morals, pigeons and death were very memorable and I look forward to listening to more of Tony's books in the future.

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Fantastically Funny And A Lot For The Money

This is a brilliant series and an absolute steal as a set of three for one credit. Tony Moyle's style of writing will make you laugh out loud and leave you wanting more. There are so many unique characters that on their own would make good stories, but combined make you wonder what the author has been smoking. Aubrey Parsons narration adds personality to the characters and really brings them to life. Books you can listen to again and again, and hear something new each time.

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Get this, now!

An absolute joy. Cleverly constructed and brilliantly delivered. Fast-paced and entertaining, throughout. The plot is the most believably, fantastically absurd, fun-filled frolic. Funny always and, at times, laugh-out-loud. Perfectly narrated with versatility and an obvious knowledge of the books.

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Terrible story, terrible narration.

The story is tedious, with no original ideas, just badly rehashed old ones. The protagonist is unlikeable, as are most of the other characters. The narrator seems to be of the "the more silly voices the better" school of readers.

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Disappointment

After reading the other reviews I was really looking forward to these stories. I persisted and got through the first book and started on second before giving up. I didn't find it funny, only slightly depressing. Neither did I like most of the characters so found it hard to care what happened to them.

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very different

this was a complete difference to the books i normally listen to in the fantasy fiction range.
the overall story over the 3 books was very good but found some parts long winded but great story and well narrated

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most bizarre book I've ever listened to

This book was mental in the best possible way. If you liked The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy or if you are a Terry Pratchett fan then this is for you. This is not the kind of story I'm normally drawn to but this was soooooo querky I totally enjoyed it. The voice acting was all over the place but I think that might even have been intentional. Agent 15 sounds like they hired Billy Connolly to impersonate Sean Connery doing James Bond 😂😂😂 and half of the other characters sound like a very drunk and very old Jack Sparrow. This box set was hilarious. I would absolutely recommend it.

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Long Imaginative Weird Adventures

Three books as one makes for a very long audible listen. Especially as traversing different hellish, earthly, and heavenly universes gets very descriptive and imaginative throughout. You really get your imagination twisted, expanded, at at times stretched with this trilogy.

There’s an audio error in book 2 Soul Catchers Chapter 17. The dialogue of the Mr Noir character is missing from a conversation 18:05-07:56 - 19:49-06:12.

Spoilers may follow.

The bit where Grace explains what grace is had me tearing up.

The giving birth scene when Nash becomes a bunny, was unbelievably crazy weird.

The thing about describing hellscapes is it’s often difficult for readers to envision what the author has in his mind.

When Grace the neutral explains her love near the end I absolutely burst into tears of emotion, such simple yet profound words of explaining what love is.

The way each chapter cuts off at random cliffhangers and then starts up again in someone else’s storyline, is confusing. Even when it goes back to the other storyline eventually at random.

Very preachy at the end with Jon’s speech.

Overall a wild and weird book with characters of many species on Earth. My favourite characters were Sandy and Ian in book 1, and Scrumpy in books 2 and 3.

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Hard to follow the story

First the good. Aubrey Parsons was brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Giving different accents helped separate the characters, and his accents were great, Scottish, Welsh, English, Geordie... all great. Then there was Sean Connery, grandad from Only fools and horses... Add that to some of the characters in the book, especially Sandy and Ian, who had me literally in tears of laughter, and you had what should have been the perfect audible listen.
Now the bad. Maybe it was me, but I couldn't follow what was happening half of the time. Even putting aside my distaste for religion and accepting the book is just fiction, all the stuff about the soul catcher just left me confused.
However, that said, it was free, and worth listening to just for the Sandy and Ian parts and the performance of Aubrey Parsons. I am now going to look up anything else he may have read, he really was that good.

A bit all over the place

Listening to this was hard work. The narration was a major feat of acting, with so many voices used. At times I felt the voices were more important than what was being said and I was listening to a celebrity impersonator.

Too many characters and a little hard to follow and keep up with, both in the writing and the reading of this messy story. One continuous book of about half the length would have been better than three sort of books that were intrinsically linked but trying to be, and not to be, the same story. I ended up listening to some of it a few times and a little of it - not at all, particularly near the end.

Overall: Too long, too meandering, a bit confusing, all with overacted narration.