Not for this narrator

Whilst I have listened to several books by this narrator I don’t think she suits the ‘Crime and Thriller’ genre. This is a good story but the narrator just didn’t make it come alive and I found myself drifting off and losing concentration many times. Unfortunately it has put me off reading the rest of the series

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Rambling story

It takes about 50 chapters for all the characters and story to become clear. Then it takes off and remains interesting. Won’t pay to hear another from this author.

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Narrator

Oi really loved the narration of this book found it a great listen , I loved the accent Went wirth the area of the story and suited the characters. Will be getting the rest in the series

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What I didn't like...

Unusually, I never got into this book, finding it tedious at best, and yet I still read to the rather than rather than returning. I think this was because I didn't really understand why I disliked it so much... so, here's my guesswork.

*Narration*: the accent wasn't geordie, and occasionally twanged posh. However, she never pronounces her letter t. It didn't sound right, and felt like a London accent trying to be geordie. I strongly recommend listening to the audio sample, in case, as it was to me, this is deeply irritating to you.

*Character development*: the author tries to develop character, but the style seems to be very short sentences and equally short developments. Perhaps that's "punchy", but I just felt it didn't work. It ended up being a long series of statements, but nothing especially probing.

*Plot interest*; In the last chapters, motive is revealed. Then it was interesting. But, like the rest of the book, it was a punchy series of this was the start, this was the next, now we're the end. Without timing it, I think that must have been 5 minutes total.

*So many pointless descriptions:* There were so many pointless details, which had no bearing whatsoever on the scene, story, character or anything. It sounded more like a child recounting an exciting day with their friends at a theme park, highlighting the bits they found fun regardless of whether it contributed to the overall readers' understanding of their day, rather than an author creating a novel with every word designed to feed the finale.

*SO... who might like this?*

It's a pretty basic story. It's pretty locally interesting to Newcastle, UK. It doesn't say much about UK police. It doesn't say much about misogyny. It doesn't reveal much about psychopathy. And it jumps about enough to be difficult for people who want a book on in the background.

I really don't know who'd like this.

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Murder Wall

I hope we have many more Kate Daniels stories. It would be good to have one with a lot of perspective on Jo too

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Couldn’t finish the book

It might just be me or possibly the narration, but I found the story very hard to follow. The perspective switches back and forth a lot and I found it hard to follow and keep up with the over all story. I gave up about half way through

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Enjoyable but confusing

A good story that kept my interest. However there were a lot of character names to remember and the narration jumped from one to another, sometimes with hardly a pause, making it difficult to follow.

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Great start to a series.

I really enjoyed this book and have already bought the next one in the series. I loved the characters and getting to know more about them. The reasons for the murders kept me guessing to the end.

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A great find!

I was delighted to discover this Kate Daniels series and have listened to every one so far.
The characters are well formed and believable and the stories interesting and a little unusual.
Personally, I have really enjoyed the narration...the geordie accent is excellent!
Definitely recommend!

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Kept my mind occupied

I agree with other reviewers about it being confusing at times and a lot of names and connections to try and follow. Loved the narrator’s accent but irritated that Daniels was replaced by Daniel frequently, I kept questioning whether there was another character!

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