Down but not out..

Excellent little supernatural tale with HP Lovecraft leaning and an unusual protagonist in the lumpen shape of Harry Stubbs, ex boxer, debt collector and now work for, what he thinks is respectable law firm, lucky for us this is not the case.
Hope to hear more of Harry's adventures soon.

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Enjoyable story read by an annoying reader

An enjoyable little romp with the supernatural in the 1920s. Liked the story but the reader have some of the oddest pronunciation I've ever heard. The main character is an ex'boxer from Norwood who at times sounds like Prince Charles. He says Herry instead of Harry amongst other things and it's quite wearing. Would be excruciating for a full length novel.

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Great fun, and lots of influences to explore

It's as good as the other reviews say. Fun characters, and lots of references and ideas from various sources of history, literature, natural history and pulp fiction. These references are a hat-tip to those who are already familiar with them, and interesting things to explore for those who do not.
I like that even casual references and ideas mentioned turn out to be integral to the plot, and are more than nice gloss on a good story.
I look forward to the rest of the series.

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A Curious Tale

This was my first foray into the world of the Lovecraft Genre and I really enjoyed it, the story was engaging and easy to follow. I would read listen to this author again.

The only mar on an otherwise excellent listen was the readers slightly dodgy English regional accents and his mispronunciations of basic words, almost as if he was from New England USA.

Excellent audio book!y

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Easy to follow , nice simple dip into Lovecraftian horror.

The plots very simple and linear, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. it's a good Intro the genre.

Many Lovecraftian stories are overly complicated so would definitely recommend for those new readers.

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A thoroughly enjoyable book

This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.

I was a little unsure of whether I would enjoy this book at first. After starting it I very quickly became enthralled by it.

It is a curious combination of just enough historical accuracy pertaining to Shackleton and the time period, mixed with a nice amount of fiction based on classical stories.

I find myself anticipating the next book in the series. This is a nice introduction with just enough action to keep you wanting to read/listen.

The narration is well done and the accents and language are just right (not too cockney).

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Good story, but too short.

I enjoyed the story and the characters. I felt the story should have been longer. The resolution happened too quickly for my tastes.

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A fun little book, ruined by weird narration.

Mostly fine, but let down by a smattering of really weird mispronunciations, such as:

Coroner - Core-ren-or
Harry - Hairy
Foreign - Four-ren

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weak story/narration, avoid if you are over 12 yrs

The story goes nowhere, the plot and characters are shallow, the book ends before anything has really happened. Perhaps the worst bit was the terrible attempt at some kind of east London accent by the narrator. I think the narrator was not English, perhaps American who has studied the masterly accent of Dick Van Dike in "Mearry Pawpnis, gawwd bliss yer goovenooor"
For example words like "lonn" and "ruff" I think were supposed to mean "lawn" and "roof". The worse one was an attempt at a generalised Welsh accent, I heard Miss Jean Brodie after spending some years in Cork, it was only missing an "ochh aye" and a "begorrahh"...very strange, couldn't detect any area of Wales, North, South, Valleys, West, East, Cardiff ????
Any attempt at a neutral English accent came out as very camp.
At the end it dawned on me that perhaps this is a book for an 11 year old audience, what a waste of a credit, if so why has Audible recommended it to me? My reading has been Le Carre, Len Deigton, George Orwell, Ben MacIntyre, some wartime biographies etc. Seems odd....
Basically avoid this book if you are over 12 years old.

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