Such a pity!

Würden Sie The Rook noch mal anhören? Warum?

I'd like to listen to the book again, but certainly with somebody else reading it.

Was mochten Sie an der Handlung am liebsten?

Love this quirky story. It's quite absurd, but has wonderful ideas in it: a person consisting of four siblings; a person loosing their memory permanenty prepares by copious letters and notes left for herself after the memory loss; a government institution naming the different positions by chess figures with the exception of king and queen, because these titles are taken in the U.K., the ever present standard operating procedures, just to name a few. It's not quite like "the untied kingdom", but both are full of strange ideas and twists and turns, which makes this book very likeable.

Was mochten Sie nicht am Vortrag von Susan Duerden?

Susan Duerden has a beautiful lilt in her voice and a wealth of different voices for different characters. However, as soon as she is narrating, she has a dull repeating speech pattern within her sentences, which simply doesn't make sense relative to the content she's reading. Isn't there a director telling her to stop this dreadfully dull singsong? At the latest by mid audiobook you'd like to shake her and force her to just read the book already as it is meant to be told.

Was wäre für andere Hörer sonst noch hilfreich zu wissen, um das Hörbuch richtig einschätzen zu können?

This is fine light reading, to me it was a pity that I had to strive reading on with this awful way of narrating.

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Great story after the first half

The most amazing of all was the narrator! No words to explain how good she is! She managed to have tens of different voices and accents in the story! Very impressive!

Otherwise I have kinda mixed feelings about the book. The story itself is quite good if you succeed to go through the first half. My husband and I were getting kinda bored at the beginning and there was way too many details that we found unnecessary. Just when we thought we might never finish the story, it got so exciting that we absorbed the rest of the book quickly. We then understood that the detailed part at the beginning was more or less needed (it could have been slightly reduced though) to make us emerge into the characters' world and fully understand the conflicts.

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Very exciting Story...

...but unfortunately also a bit complecated to get into. Otherwise I liked the supernatural strong female agent aspect, but got confused easily wird all the different people involved...nur maybe that was partout of the authors plan, when I now think of it, this might be one aspect which make the story so exciting. mmh...

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Obwohl in der Geschichte Potenzial steckt, wurde diese nicht genutzt. Die Spannung sinkt nach einem interessanten Einstieg wegen der endlosen Beschreibungen bald gegen Null. Es passiert im ersten Drittel nichts wirklich Spannendes. Da habe ich aufgegeben.

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