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A review by jenbsbooks
A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice by Rebecca Connelly
3.0
I liked this fine. I went with the audio version, two narrators (male and female - I appreciated the distinction, even though it could have been a single narrator, all 3rd person/past tense) and I really struggled to stay connected during the Carpathia/Captain Rostron chapters. My mind just kept wandering. I had this in Kindle format too, and had to go back and re-read portions.
Basic chronological chapters - no headers in the Table of Contents, just small ones listing which boat and the date ... I felt like that should have been included in the TOC, for reference, if a reader wanted to go and check, to know immediately which were Titanic chapters, Carpathia chapters, Lifeboat13 chapters, or once back on land.
Between chapters, there were little quotes from various people.
It's fiction, based on some real people/events, researched ... the Author's Notes at the end were good (and included in audio, THANK YOU!) which clarified what events were fact based, what had been altered for effect, etc.
One thing I note, if a song/lyrics are written in the novel, how is this handled in audio? Spoken or sung? Pros and cons to each, but I generally prefer sung. Here ... sung, and sung well. Abide with Me was the first, and then there were a couple more (the female narrator Alana Kerr Collins).
Christian fiction - not overly religious/preachy. Clean. Words I note: route(pronounced "root"), cacophony, bespoke, deign, purloined
Basic chronological chapters - no headers in the Table of Contents, just small ones listing which boat and the date ... I felt like that should have been included in the TOC, for reference, if a reader wanted to go and check, to know immediately which were Titanic chapters, Carpathia chapters, Lifeboat13 chapters, or once back on land.
Between chapters, there were little quotes from various people.
It's fiction, based on some real people/events, researched ... the Author's Notes at the end were good (and included in audio, THANK YOU!) which clarified what events were fact based, what had been altered for effect, etc.
One thing I note, if a song/lyrics are written in the novel, how is this handled in audio? Spoken or sung? Pros and cons to each, but I generally prefer sung. Here ... sung, and sung well. Abide with Me was the first, and then there were a couple more (the female narrator Alana Kerr Collins).
Christian fiction - not overly religious/preachy. Clean. Words I note: route(pronounced "root"), cacophony, bespoke, deign, purloined