Malevolent
Shaye Archer Series, Book 1
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Malevolent
Narrated by:
Julie McKay
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Julie McKay
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Jana DeLeon
About this listen
Emma Frederick bolts upright in bed, pulse racing. It must be a bad dream.
Except it’s not.
Crrrrrreeeeeeeeaaaaaaakkkkkkk.
The sound of the loose step sends her body into overdrive, and she rushes for the secret room behind the wall. The screech of old hinges echoes through the house as he enters her bedroom.
He starts whistling.
Three blind mice. Three blind mice.
She slaps a hand over her mouth, stifling her scream.
He’s coming for her, but that can’t be.
She killed him last month.
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Brilliant!
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After an intriguing prologue which sets a tense scene for the central story the whole thing moves along briskly and the tension builds nicely. A woman is being stalked after killing her ex-husband for reasons she can't fathom. She hires Archer to investigate!
If Archer is let down by anything though it is the rather wooden supporting cast among the minor characters. They seem rather too easily impressed and just a little bit too accommodating in terms of how they interact with the young PI. The final reveal when it comes appears from way out in left field coming perilously close to a Scooby Doo ending - you'll see what I mean!
The narration by Julie McKay at first jarred to these Anglophile ears, strongly accented and with a strange cadence that emphasised a lot of the last syllables in a sentence. However, I think I'm quite adaptable and once I got into the rhythm of it I found it very enjoyable. Those who perhaps are a bit more selective with their narrators might want to listen to the audio sample first.
Refreshingly there are no or at least virtually no swearwords which made a change. I don't mind them but you can indeed write thrillers without cussing it seems. Don't be fooled though, this is a wolf in sheep's clothing because after about half way it does start to cut up rough and the body count rises rapidly.
In summary this is a relatively short, brisk and enjoyable thriller and Archer is an interesting lead. It's not perfect though with the rather easily impressed and wooden minor characters and that touch of Scooby Doo at the end. I think I'm probably intrigued enough by Archer to maybe go further in the series in the future - for those even more enthusiastic there are another three books already available at the time of writing this review!
Enjoyable Thriller That Turns on the Reader
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Engaging story
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The Narration is acceptable, and whilst the female voices are good if a little similar the male voice work isn't great. Still, it is not distracting from the story and other than all the men sounding like a low growl through a telephone it was a good performance.
Nice easy listen and not predicatble
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