Creative and interesting Story.

Good characters and Story. You need to listen carefully to follow the complex story - its worth it.

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Perfect!

"The Rook" is one of my favourite books, I've read it multiple times and have now listened to the audiobook twice. The story's great: full of imagination and original characters, suspenseful and oh so funny! The narrator did a great job, her voice and accent are perfect for Myfanwy. Highly recommended - urban fantasy at its very best!

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Tolles Buch und Hörbuch!

Die Geschichte war unglaublich fesselnd und gut geschrieben, und die Sprecherin hat mir auch super gefallen. Eines meiner Lieblingshörbücher!

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Absolutely excellent!

A leading official of a secret paranormal organisation in today's London is robbed of her memory and must find her way in her new old job while trying to uncover who stole her life and why.

There is not one dull moment in this story, the heroine is likeable, witty, and fun to root for. The characters are nuanced and interesting, the dialogues are natural and often really funny. And the supernatural world building is new and well thought out.

And Katy Carmichael does an excellent job as narrator as well. I like her voice and pronunciation style in itself, but here she also finds a unique voice for every character that fits like a glove.

I was looking for an entertaining, fun, involving, and inspiring story in the supernatural world and I got it here, plus more! Highly recommended!

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A funny little story buried in a million details

Daniel O'Malley is an exceptional storyteller. I give the man credit for that. His creativity carried me through 18 hours of audiobook listening (this and the enjoyable voice of the narrator) and I felt wonderfully entertained for the most part of it. But that's it. If you expect an adventure from a novel containing a multitude of charcters with extra-special-superpowers then "The Rook" is not for you. It is a succession of anecdotes. If you peel away the layers of (albeit well told) details, there's not much of a plot left. "The Rook" tells the story of a conspiracy in the ranks of a secret goverment agency and that's it. To do so it draws on a huge personal of very special characters, which is entertaining if you happen to enjoy the audiobook version (the narrator is able to produce a million voices, just lovely!). But I really couldn't picture myself reading the actual printed book. Because it is quite a volume and it has this awful lot of information that doesn't add to the progress of the story at all. I expected adventure, suspense and a larger than life secret to be discovered - only to be let down at the end. Because the end is a 1 1/2 hour giant snooze-fest that doesn't make any sense, but instead makes you wonder why you endured * ALL THOSE FUCKING DETAILS * if they haven't got anything to do with it.

The "purple" binder the heroine receives from the previous owner of her body at the beginning is the most shameless excuse for blatant info-dropping I EVER came across in a book. O'Malley just doesn't know the difference between necessary details and senseless blabbering. There are parts where things keep happening and these parts are actually suspenseful, but as it turns out they, too, are not important at all for the outcome of the book. They are just entertaining. You could omit any of those passages without damaging the story.

There's no epic showdown, no big ass revelation, just plain old telling what happend sometime in the past and let to this. And for whatever reason this makes the ultimate threat we have been promised for umpteen pages go away... Really? Does that little chit chat at the end make up for the piles of dead bodies the story produced? Hell no! Did anyone grab the bad guys by the nuts and nailed them to the Tower walls as they deserved? NO! We're not given the least bit of satisfaction, we're just being told how some of them got caught and trialed.

Well, needless to say I feel cheated. This story severely lacks DEPTH. Read this for the fun of it, but do not expect it to make much sense.

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