Rick Kohut
I've listened to all 3 of Stuart Turton's novels and the narrator (James Cameron Stewart) is excellent. Yet, I think this novel especially would be better experienced in print. I dig the intricatacy of his mysteries - "The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Harcastle" is amazing. Yet, the details of timelines, character actions and motives in his novels require careful attention for the reader to follow the plot to a satisfying conclusion. Taking this in via even the best narrator - while multitasking - was too much for my aging brain to follow. The universe of the story is an engaging one & the discovery of this would have surely been better for me in a print format - where I can easily go back to earlier in the story - as opposed to the challenge of moving backwards to re-listen to a passage in an audiobook. I admire the boldness of Turton's first forray into a fictional, dystopian, tech-heavy setting, yet I feel he's better at taking a historical place & time in which to create his impressive "puzzle box" mysteries.
I've listened to all 3 of Stuart Turton's novels and the narrator (James Cameron Stewart) is excellent. Yet, I think this novel especially would be better experienced in print. I dig the intricatacy of his mysteries - "The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Harcastle" is amazing. Yet, the details of timelines, character actions and motives in his novels require careful attention for the reader to follow the plot to a satisfying conclusion. Taking this in via even the best narrator - while multitasking - was too much for my aging brain to follow. The universe of the story is an engaging one & the discovery of this would have surely been better for me in a print format - where I can easily go back to earlier in the story - as opposed to the challenge of moving backwards to re-listen to a passage in an audiobook. I admire the boldness of Turton's first forray into a fictional, dystopian, tech-heavy setting, yet I feel he's better at taking a historical place & time in which to create his impressive "puzzle box" mysteries.