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Winter Dawn

Winter, Book 3

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Meet Winter: she’s the audacious, hyper-intelligent GCHQ agent with more notches on her bedpost than James Bond and more hacking cred than Lisbeth Salander.

Winter Dawn is the third instalment in the Winter series, journeying back to the beginning of her story. This time, she’s grappling with Colosseum: a sinister online phenomenon that has gripped the world. It promises a massive cash prize to the successful hunter of its victims, unleashing an unstoppable tide of violence - and the world’s authorities are powerless to prevent it.

When a New York senator is targeted, Winter is called in to protect her. But with all the world watching, there’s nowhere to hide. No one has ever survived Colosseum. It’s the winter solstice and as they journey together into the dark heart of the longest night, they soon discover that nothing about Colosseum is what it seems.

There are rules and there is a purpose, if only they can solve the riddle in time. Colosseum is more than a hunt: it’s a challenge. Targets must face their darkest fear or die at dawn.

Winter Dawn is the third instalment in the Winter series - the first of which was Audible’s Thriller of the Year in 2019 - and journeys back to the beginning of her story.

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I’ve been looking forward to Winter’s next adventure and this more than lived up to expectations. It’s another tense, fast paced instalment, which I couldn’t put down. Winter Dawn fills in more of Winter’s back story as she is called to protect a US senator in New York from swarms of killers, while uncovering the riddle of Colosseum. This is an online mega hit which singles out public figures - including the senator - for execution and handsomely rewards the successful hunter. Winter is on top form and I really grew to like her initially clueless and helpless charge, who turns out to have some steeliness at her core. Another storming instalment in the Winter series!

Another storming Winter tale!

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But not quite. Brilliantly written and performed, the story was excellent and had me trawling back through the previous stories in my mind to try to guess the end. Nearly but not quite .... well done to writer and performers, I can’t wait till the next one.

I thought I’d guessed it....

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A bit of hunger games and a bit of west world, spies and sad bits. I liked the others in this series but, honestly, this wasn’t even derivative in a good way and only one character was engaging. Winter herself was 2D.

This is a mash up

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I was a little concerned given the number of people that wrote negative reviews, presumably as they wanted a new Winter story that carried on from the first two. This isn't that. Without giving too much away (possible spoilers), this a prequel and about 45% of the story is ready by Lorelei King, and the remaining 55% by the wonderful Ell Porter, the voice of Winter so to speak. The story itself is the reason for this split. It is told from two perspectives, hence dual narrators which is definitely different to most audiobooks. The voice of Lorelei when you are expecting Ell is probably what unfortunately, put a lot of off the book a bit, because it is the majority of the first 50% of the book, and the reader is wondering 'Why isn't this from Winter's perspective?', and 'Where is Ell?'

Personally I was happy with Lorelei and what that part of the narration and story was trying to achieve, I thought she did a good job of what was asked of her. it is arguably a tough job given the circumstances and she shouldn't receive any discredit.. Ell, is as ever, excellent as ever. I enjoyed the story, and there are a number of parallel's to the earlier books, (not trying to spoil anything)

I would advise giving it a chance and a large chance, until you get to the familiar territory of Ell narrating Winter. If you do you are likely to finish the book. If you don't you might be asking for your credit back.

Hopefully we will be seeing more of Winter in the future.

Better than expected.

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Great sequel. Didn’t expect it. Very good. Might go back and listen to the others again.

Best one yet!!!

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