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The Oversight

Yazan: Charlie Fletcher
Seslendiren: Simon Prebble
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Only five still guard the borders between the worlds. Only five hold back what waits on the other side. Once the Oversight, the secret society that polices the lines between the mundane and the magic, counted hundreds of brave souls among its members. Now their number can be tallied on a single hand. When a drunkard brings a screaming girl to the Oversight's London headquarters, it seems their hopes for a new recruit will be fulfilled - but the girl is a trap, her appearance a puzzle the five remaining guardians must solve or lose each other, and their society, for good.

As the borders between the natural and the supernatural begin to break down, brutal murders erupt across the city, the Oversight are torn viciously apart, and their enemies close in for the final blow. This dark Dickensian fantasy spins a tale of witch-hunters, magicians, mirror-walkers, and the unlikeliest of heroes drawn from the depths of British folklore. Meet the Oversight, and remember: when they fall, so do we all.

©2014 Charlie Fletcher (P)2014 Hachette Audio Fantastik Genre Fiction Historical Horror Kurgu Literary Fiction Korkutucu Klasikler Sihir Büyücüler Paranormal Düşündürücü Komik İngiltere Büyücülük
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"Exciting, exhilarating, scary and moving in equal measure, The Oversight is a teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realised. This feels like the start of something amazing" (Mike Carey)
"Fletcher's Victorian London is juicily vivid, and laced with macabre wit. There's a real sense of grim danger, both natural and unnatural, hungrily awaiting the slightest mis-step" (Frances Hardinge)
"A richly atmospheric and intensely readable slice of Victoriana, with a splendidly eerie sense of the way the unearthly lies cheek-by-jowl with the mundane" (Adam Roberts)
"Utterly enthralling: Charles Dickens meets Susanna Clarke" (Lou Morgan)
"Told in a kind of compelling and hypnotic poesie that I just lapped up... I'll certainly be reading the next one” (Cory Doctorow)
“A remarkable combination of British folklore, brisk pacing and wide-ranging imagination” ( Kirkus Reviews)
“Richly atmospheric (the evil lurks in the background of every paragraph), the book should be a big hit with supernatural-fantasy readers ... the second book can't come soon enough” ( Booklist starred review)
“The Oversight is - and let's be clear here - something very special... It's oh so moreish a morsel. I'd read a prequel this evening, a sequel as soon as” (Niall Alexander, Tor.com)
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If you're looking for a beautifully written supernatural Victorian thriller this is pretty much ideal. It's clearly at least partly inspired by Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (amplified by being read by the same superlative reader), but this is more of a genre novel, with suspense and thrills and good guys/bad guys. The supernatural London police force and some horror elements also shares some of the spirit of the Rivers of London series. The entertainingly Dickensian cast of characters is huge and diverse- almost too huge, there must be at least six point-of-view characters-- the piratical Cook, the mysterious amnesiac girl, the other mysterious mad woman, etc etc. The prose is convincingly Victorian and a bit florid if you like that sort of thing, which I do!

It ties up its most burning plot points but is clearly setting up a series, so one more thing to wait impatiently for..

Terrific

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Such a great find. The story is a lovely mix of Dickens, Aaronovitch, and something darker. Narrated beautifully. Good on its own, but sets up a universe fantastically.

Brilliant

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Once again a great book from Charlie Fletcher. Well read and keeps you interested all the way through. I listened to it at every possible opportunity. Brilliant.

Excellent

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Main characters spend most of the story telling each other what their job is, for our benefit. There are better ways of getting history/background across. These characters are, therefore not interesting enough to gain my sympathy or interest. I did find enough in it, though, to want to carry on with series. The supporting characters saved the book.

Then I saw who the narrator was "Oh dear", I though "Better listen to a sample". So I did. Let's say I won't be buying any more in this series.

Vanity is a dangerous thing and some family, friends, whoever, have gone and told Charlie he's got a brilliant voice and would be better off doing it himself. Only he can give the characters life, all that utter drivel. But Charlie went and bought the hype.

Very few writers are gifted freely with the kind of finely honed skills, worked hard for, over a career, by performers like Simon Prebble. Charlie Fletcher is not among this few. Thinking you can simply step up to the mic and shine is a massive piece of arrogance.

Well done Charlie, you wrecked your own audio series.

Not Bad, Not Great.

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I keep coming back to this one again and again. It's like a friend. Well thought out story with interesting characters fool of depth and little quirks which grab your attention. All that read by lovely voice.

My favourite so far.

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