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Strange Practice

Dr. Greta Helsing, Book 1

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 'This book is a joy to read, unlocking every bit of delicious promise in the premise' B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog

Meet Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead.

After inheriting a highly specialised, and highly peculiar, medical practice, Dr Helsing spends her days treating London's undead for a host of ills: vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights and entropy in mummies. Although barely making ends meet, this is just the quiet, supernatural-adjacent life Greta's dreamed of since childhood.

But when a sect of murderous monks emerges, killing human undead and alike, Greta must use all her unusual skills to keep her supernatural clients - and the rest of London - safe.

There are . . . few heroines as well-written and compelling as Greta Helsing'
BookPage

'Shaw balances an agile mystery with a pitch-perfect, droll narrative and cast of loveable misfit characters'
Shelf Awareness

'An imaginative, delightfully droll debut'
Kirkus©2017 Vivian Shaw (P)2017 Little Brown Book Group Action & Adventure Dragons & Mythical Creatures Fantasy Fiction Classics Paranormal Mythology Scary Zombie
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Loved this, great story and narration. Only small niggle, the lack of a pause between a change of some scenes and character viewpoints made for slight disorientation but loved the story and the narrator is excellent.

Loved this!

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Good world building, but the story is rushed. hope there is more books that continues the story. other wise the world building was wasted

Feels like the first part of a 3 part story

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I quite enjoyed this book as, unlike in most supernatural novels, the monsters get sick. & not just 'oh no, I've been poisoned by silver because everyone knows that's a werewolf's cryptonite' sick. I mean 'I need to get a refill on my inhaler for COPD' sick. Exploring this world & how the monster hospital would work was a good change of pace.

I think I would have given this book 5 stars for story if it had been centered more in the hospital & not elsewhere as for me the medical aspect of treating supernatural creatures is this book's strength. As it is I give it a 4.

Alas, the narration was kind of a let down. The narrator's story telling voice is excellent, but I couldn't differentiate between the different characters at all. Additionally, not a long enough pause was given between scenes so I often didn't realise another one had started until a character popped up that hadn't been there a second ago & I had to backup a few times to make sense of it. Therefore 3 stars only for performance.

Overall, I enjoyed this book & would recommend it to others, but better to read instead of listen.

An enjoyable twist

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I’m Really pleased I found this series, easy listening but could do with a slight pause between switching scenes

Good listen

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interesting and clever plot. Main character is engaging and fully realised. Ending felt a bit contrived.

Novel idea

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