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Jaq, A Top Boy Story

Yazan: Ronan Bennett
Seslendiren: Saffron Coomber
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AN IRISH TIMES FICTION BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR

I’m going to tell you everything. I’m gonna tell you the whole story.

Sometimes all it takes is a single message. Maybe it’s bad, like a rival top boy’s been switched off. Or maybe it’s good, like an opportunity you never thought you’d get. But opportunities mean risks, and debts, and you never want to owe anyone anything.

Jaq’s worked hard on the road since she was fourteen, bringing in money to keep her broken family afloat. Now she’s built a good life near the top of the Summerhouse crew, with a beautiful home she shares with her girlfriend Becks and her heavily pregnant older sister Lauryn.

But messages are coming in — good and bad — and Jaq has to make a choice: step back from the road and start a life she’s never even considered. Or seize her opportunities and risk everything for life-changing money. Either way, Jaq will make enemies. And those enemies aren’t going to let her go easily . . .

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I am an avid fan of the top boy series and this was another side of the story I really enjoyed listening and it showed a vulnerable side of jacks that maybe didn’t come across in the tv series it’s a realistic portrayal of the dark side of gang life and it’s set in my local area so I was able to relate to many aspects. This life does exist obviously it’s dramatised for the purpose of storytelling but it’s not a completely made up scenario hopefully there will be more of these stories coming out

Insight into another world

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I’m a big fan of TopBoy and Jaq was my favourite character. I was hoping to see how her life moved on after the Netflix shows.
Most of the this book is what we already know and the highlights of the stuff so far from her side.
Just chucks in a couple of new characters the TopBoy stuff didn’t show but nothing interesting..
Just left me not feeling I learned much

Wishing I learned more

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I rarely leave reviews but have to say that Saffron Coomber does a brilliant job here - perfectly suited to the main character so that she takes you right back into the Top Boy world from Jaq’s perspective, but also she brings the other characters to life, giving each one their own distinctiveness. The story isn’t new but it’s strong and fleshes out some of the major events from the later series. Really good.

Fantastic narration

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I loved it. as per my title it both were a near perfect reflection of each other. would have liked to have seen some of the characters named in the book in the series such as Indian Jimmy, Violet and the girls father. I feel like this could be a series of books for all of the characters and their lives pre and post SummerHouse ... please do it

True to the series or was the series true to the book?

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Enough storyline and dialogue outside of the canon tv show to warrant a good listen.

You can visualise a lot of the tv scenes and fit most of the additional story in, very well. As well as appreciate extra context between the two tv shows: summerhouse and the Netflix continuation.

The additional context regarding characters meeting and jaq’s emotions are elaborated well.

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