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A review by a_h_haga
A Long Day in Lychford by Paul Cornell
2.0
REREAD 2020
Rereading to have a clearer picture of everything happening before listening to the last book in the series.
Like with the two others, I don't have anything new to say that I didn't already say in the original review.
Keeping the rating.
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So this book is by far the weakest in the series so far. It wasn't bad, but it was weak. The irony is that I don't think the story in itself was all that weak. I found it interesting, with the pocket worlds and how the author incorporated Brexit. It was interesting seeing it mentioned in a book like this, and how it affect the lives of people in Britain, and how little some of them thought about things when voting this way or that.
What I think the problem was for me, was the narrator.
This series has changed narrator with each book, and that makes it hard to connect to the series. New narrators have different voices and different ways of portraying the characters, and so I never felt like the characters were set. On top of that, the narrator for this book was bad. She used pretty much the same voice for every character, male or female, and so it was hard to know who was saying what when. It made it easy to zone out.
I have already bought and started listening to the next book in the series - [b:The Lights Go Out in Lychford|44581554|The Lights Go Out in Lychford (Lychford, #4)|Paul Cornell|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1555042190l/44581554._SX50_.jpg|69197749] - as it uses one of the two first narrators that I remember liking, and because it seems a lot of things will be happening. Until the ending of this book, I wasn't actually sure if there was a red-thread running through all the books, or if each was just a random story with these women at the senter. Now, it is clear the series is going somewhere, and so I want to give it another chance.
Just hope the author publish the books a little faster in the future. I mean, they're pretty short, one would think he would be able to publish more than once every second year
Original rating: 2/5 stars
Rereading to have a clearer picture of everything happening before listening to the last book in the series.
Like with the two others, I don't have anything new to say that I didn't already say in the original review.
Keeping the rating.
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So this book is by far the weakest in the series so far. It wasn't bad, but it was weak. The irony is that I don't think the story in itself was all that weak. I found it interesting, with the pocket worlds and how the author incorporated Brexit. It was interesting seeing it mentioned in a book like this, and how it affect the lives of people in Britain, and how little some of them thought about things when voting this way or that.
What I think the problem was for me, was the narrator.
This series has changed narrator with each book, and that makes it hard to connect to the series. New narrators have different voices and different ways of portraying the characters, and so I never felt like the characters were set. On top of that, the narrator for this book was bad. She used pretty much the same voice for every character, male or female, and so it was hard to know who was saying what when. It made it easy to zone out.
I have already bought and started listening to the next book in the series - [b:The Lights Go Out in Lychford|44581554|The Lights Go Out in Lychford (Lychford, #4)|Paul Cornell|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1555042190l/44581554._SX50_.jpg|69197749] - as it uses one of the two first narrators that I remember liking, and because it seems a lot of things will be happening. Until the ending of this book, I wasn't actually sure if there was a red-thread running through all the books, or if each was just a random story with these women at the senter. Now, it is clear the series is going somewhere, and so I want to give it another chance.
Just hope the author publish the books a little faster in the future. I mean, they're pretty short, one would think he would be able to publish more than once every second year
Original rating: 2/5 stars