Brilliant

That is an amazing book. The language it just flows the descriptions, the action, the drama and the dialogue totally brilliant. The story captivates I wanted to make it last but couldn’t stop listening,love it.

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Fabulous!

I loved everything about this book. The story was gripping and original, but most importantly well crafted with excellent characterisation which is so often lacking in this genre. It’s a fast paced and suspenseful ride with a great narrator. Enjoy!

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Great story, but...

Awesome story. It's great to follow the twists and turns of what happens to Mia. The hints are there, but the riddles are still hard to solve.

Though the narration could have been a lot better. First of, why would you ever choose a man instead of a woman or a duo to read a book with a female MC? It doesn't make things better that he isn't particularly great at female voices. Second, one of more prominent figures is voiced by a whisper. Having to adjust volume constantly is more than a little annoying. The mentor of the MC had a difficult dialect, I had to rewind several times to figure out what he said. Lastly I always prefer female narrators when there are good sexual scenes in the book...

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Hooked from the start!

When listening to books I always find it important for there to be a hook - something to get me to keep reading... And BOY did THIS have a good hook. I couldn't stop listening to this excellent book. Can't wait to get my next audible credit to purchase book 2!

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

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incredible story and telling

This is a wonderfully dark and funny tale written by the talented Jay Kristoff and I highly recommend listening to this.

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great book

love this book, this story, so so much. great re-read. I'm refreshing myself for the last book.
my only issue?.. how the narrator portrays Mia..
she's this badass, sarcastic assassin.. but he reads her like a pansy. that is my only fault with this audiobook.

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A good story, excellent world building, awful narration/performance

This is a good story with a slow start but worth staying with as develops excellent in its world building. But, the narration is god awful, especially in the narrators attempt to create character voices.

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One of the best books I have listened to this year

Half way through the second book now just looking forward to book 3 in September

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ignore the start

a great book if you ignore the first few chapters , they made me feel like i was having some sort of episode

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One of the best things I've listened to

Nevernight is one of those books that I deleted off my TBR a good while back as I didn’t want another ‘kid goes to school and ends up being the best at whatever he or she trained at’. Essentially, the Harry Potter of assassins wasn’t something I felt too enthusiastic about. As it was, so many people told me I was making a mistake. Far too many for me to ignore, so I decided I’d grab a copy of the audio book seeing as how I had a few free credits.

So glad that I did.

Nevernight is easily one of the best things I have experienced this year. So much better than I could have imagined. It is, essentially, a bit of a ‘Harry Potter of assassins’ story, but it has so much more that I had to admit I was stupidly wrong in not wanting to try this book. The way it is written, for one, would be reason enough to give it a go. It is humorous and told from the point of view of someone who knew the protagonist in a ‘fireside chat’ kind of way. A really interesting and refreshing way of being told a story.

It has a lot going for it. As you’d expect, in a tutoring scenario it has the squabbles between ‘classmates’ but, due to the nature of the ‘school’ they are at, these are squabbles that often end in the darkest of ways.

Nevernight has a healthy dose of mystery and intrigue threaded throughout and it has some seriously epic moments. One of my favourites being the last couple of hours of the book. Just wow. So much wow.

The magic system is pretty good in this. The one that sticks out the most for me being the method of how the assassins travel. I was pleasantly surprised at the originality of that. There is also another sort of magic that I’ll not mention. Gotta leave some unexpected surprises.

Another thing that really adds to Nevernight as a solid opener to a series is the imagery. The author does an excellent job of painting the picture he wants the reader to see, and what dark imagery there can be found within!

It is guilty of having my pet hate in there as well: flashbacks. I do think that, perhaps, there were one too many flashbacks that could have been explained better in other ways, but I suppose I can’t have everything. Some people enjoy flashbacks, others hate them. I find myself closer to the hate side of the scale.

I’m also not much of a romance fan (my black heart has no room for the love of others) and, whilst it does appear in the book, it isn’t to the extent that I find off-putting.

So yea, it literally has something for everyone.

The narration is top notch. An excellent narrator that provides a brilliant array of voices for some pretty diverse characters. I already have the sequel downloaded and will be keeping an eye out for the narrator’s other works in the future. Even the best of books can be made painful by a bad narrator. So it’s always worth keeping your eye on the gems!

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