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sireno8 's review for:
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
This is my first experience with an audiobook and I think this was a good one to start with b/c I'm not sure how far I would haven't gotten with this book if I just sat down to read it. It's read by Sir Derek Jacobi so it's pretty hard to go wrong there. He does very well, of course, particularly w/ all the various characters and the subsequent brit dialects. (His American's a little stereotypical and inconsistant, but I have to admit I'm a bit of a snob.) As for the book itself, it's a fascinating idea well executed. I love the things you learned about history incorrectly recorded or how an event gets completely changed (or in this case invented) to suit someone else's ends. The author creates charming solid characters that anchor the mystery at the book's center nicely. My problem was I'm not a huge Brit history buff so I had trouble keeping names and sides straight. Since it was an audio book I was tempted to go back and replay sections of info that rushed by quickly just to put the pieces together as I would if I were reading a book. Ultimately I opted to listen to it as read since b/c realistically I'm not sure I would have gone forward if it wasn't being read to me. Also, since it's an historical and therefore theoretical problem, the resolution couldn't help but feel a bit anticlimactic (to me at least).