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chrissie_whitley 's review for:
The Sentence is Death
by Anthony Horowitz
I think Anthony Horowitz is easily becoming an auto-buy/auto-borrow author for me. His plot devices are fun and entertaining, never overstretched or played out, his writing is wonderful, his characterizations are fantastic, and I just simply have the best time listening to his stories from beginning to end.
The Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery series is just as delightful as his Susan Ryeland series, and the awesome meshing of metafiction and I adore the brilliant level of self-awareness Horowitz injects into the two characters of Hawthorne, as a play on Sherlock Holmes, and Horowitz, where Horowitz ties a fictional version of himself into the part of Dr. John Watson.
Audiobook, as narrated by [a:Rory Kinnear|4503082|Rory Kinnear|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]: Kinnear again handed in a really excellent performance as the narrator here — giving me a wide range of voices, accents, pitches, and all the necessaries of variance that are needed for a superb audiobook performance (especially for an above-average author's work).
Aside from what I noticed in his abilities in this sequel that I'd already noted from the previous book, Kinnear sounds enjoyably and remarkably similar to Hugh Grant, and given that their birth places are in the same general area less than fifteen minutes apart (never mind the 18 years difference in age) — Grant in White City and Kinnear in Hammersmith (both in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London) — I assume it only makes sense, but I found it quite charming, nonetheless.
The Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery series is just as delightful as his Susan Ryeland series, and the awesome meshing of metafiction and I adore the brilliant level of self-awareness Horowitz injects into the two characters of Hawthorne, as a play on Sherlock Holmes, and Horowitz, where Horowitz ties a fictional version of himself into the part of Dr. John Watson.
Audiobook, as narrated by [a:Rory Kinnear|4503082|Rory Kinnear|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]: Kinnear again handed in a really excellent performance as the narrator here — giving me a wide range of voices, accents, pitches, and all the necessaries of variance that are needed for a superb audiobook performance (especially for an above-average author's work).
Aside from what I noticed in his abilities in this sequel that I'd already noted from the previous book, Kinnear sounds enjoyably and remarkably similar to Hugh Grant, and given that their birth places are in the same general area less than fifteen minutes apart (never mind the 18 years difference in age) — Grant in White City and Kinnear in Hammersmith (both in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London) — I assume it only makes sense, but I found it quite charming, nonetheless.