i listened for 20 minutes....the story has no innate charm and the beginning is brutal....20 minutes spent with agatha christie or conan doyle has a completely different pleasant clever engaging appealing vibe
Nice job Mr Todd, this is my second book and loved it, thank you, did a Google search for your back stories as I’ve just found you have dozens published, respect. Going to be searching for more of your work, thank you and your superb narrator. fae Bonny Scotland
its a well written book for what it is...not to my taste...too sentimental and self-pitying and morbid...everybody broken men and weeping about the war...i got to the 45 minute mark...good narration if you want a sad depressed story about how everybody is unhappy after the battle of the somme and how the captain had to head the firing party that executed his best friend for x and y and z and much more along that same general morose line.
As someone with ADHD, Elle is very undiagnosed ADHD coded. She obviously has the arrested development stuff going on, but I see myself in how she acts too
I see there are those in the comments section who like to nit pick, or bestow on our uneducated selves their great knowledge of small details they have found wanting in these interesting books. I hope it confirms their apparently very high opinions of themselves being able to find such flaws.
You don't get it. When you're 69 you know when various turns of speech came into common usage because you were there when it happened. It takes no education or scholarship for an older person to know, for example, that people didn't start using the phrase "rip off" to mean theft or robbery until around the 1970's, and it's automatically jarring to hear it put into the mouth of someone from a much earlier decade. All it takes to know that is being older, having been there when it happened. So, I'm not 'bestowing knowledge', I'm fucking complaining because it's jarring.
As soon as I heard the Scottish accent I pressed like! I don’t mind how good the story is I’ll listen to the very end just to hear the narrator speaking 😜
This story has magnificent “ingredients” but was let down from being as brilliant as Marsh, Christie, Conan Doyle et al by one thing - the editing. Like a cake made with only the best ingredients but the method of making it wasn’t done quite rights so the was good but not exquisite as it could have been. A touch more development of the characters, a bit or a bit less here n there in the plot and sub plots to ebb n flow better etc. So very close to being a masterpiece. A great book.
