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Black River
- A Jess Bridges Mystery, Book 1
- Narrated by: Claire Wyatt, James Lailey
- Series: A Jess Bridges Mystery, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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- incubroz
- 28-08-21
An ‘acerbic’ review of this relationship drama
I’ve never reviewed a book without finishing it before (bear that in mind when considering my review), however; there’s no way I’m going to make it through this one.
Narration is split been a male and female, the latter I found slightly nauseating, not unlike she’s reading to young school children, only the occasional profanity or mention of adult theme breaking the illusion.
You would hope that a proof reader or even friend of the author might have picked up on the overuse of the word ‘acerbic’ and offered an alternative to use now and then, thinning it’s use out a bit. Instead, it’s the authors word of choice for anything spoken with a hint of negativity and I’ve ditched the book with it already used, I think six times and beginning to grate on me.
Reading like a relationship drama, the fact that somebody has lost their life is almost incidental.
Perhaps there’s a brilliant twist and change of tone later in the book and this is why I came across the high review score that lead me to give it a shot but, I’m not prepared to suffer any longer, waiting for it.
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- Chris
- 28-08-21
Awful
Nothing like a detective novel. More like a diary of relationships and suchlike. Slow rambling
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- Lulu M
- 06-11-20
Enjoyable
I enjoyed this book on the whole. Interesting characters and a good mystery, however I would say it was more for the 30-something audience. I’m 50-something and found some of it a little immature. It’s also billed as Book 1 in a new series but one of the main characters refers to past situations which I believe must be in the earlier book ‘Don’t Trust Me’ by the same author.
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- John
- 02-08-21
Absolutely LOVE this series…!!!!!
This series is fabulous..!!
It’s a perfect combination of mystery,
Mayhem and laughs..
Superb writing with the perfect narrator,.. spot on timing and inflection.
On my way to buy her next one..
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- Mark D
- 10-04-21
The Worst Accent
Story itself was fine, but that is the worst Polish accent ever. Had to skip over it.