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OverLondon
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Narrated by:
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Brendan McDonald
About this listen
A rollicking comic-fantasy whodunnit with a Tudor twist!
Priests from OverLondon's Church of Vengeful Acquisition are exploding. Is the cause divine retribution, ballistic undergarments, or something more sinister? If only the city had a professional private investigator…
Luckily, notorious pirate-turned-privateer Captain Alex Reign has just narrowly escaped the hangman’s noose to establish the Reign Agency in Drury Lane. She needs cash fast and will take any job, even if failure means facing an inconveniently messy end. But what's a little danger to a professional swashbuckler?
Armed with nothing but her roguish wit, her reliably unreliable crew, and a rogue artificer experiencing a mortal crisis, Alex is convinced they'll have this crime solved and the reward pocketed by teatime.
To solve their first case, all they must do is survive while navigating rampaging nuns, clockwork horrors, confectionary gangsters, piratical florists, malevolent urchins, military-grade statuary, weaponized blasphemy, and sexual whales. How hard can it possibly be?
©2023 George Penney and Tony Johnson (P)2023 Swashbuckler PressCritic Reviews
"A delightful romp, chock-full of wonderfully bonkers ideas.” (C. K. [Caimh] McDonnell, best-selling author of the Stranger Times and Bunny McGarry series)
"If Spike Milligan and Terry Pratchett had ever got round to a collaboration, it might read like OverLondon.” (Heide Goody, best-selling author of the Sam Applewhite and Oddjobs series)
“The most fun you can have in the safety of a book. A rollicking good read!” (Kaaron Warren, multi-award-winning science fiction and horror author)
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anja Dreyer
- 03-11-2023
So good I got both the print AND the audio book
Every now and then you come across an audiobook so good, you have to buy it in print also, just so you can read it again and capture the initial feeling in a new way. I listen to a LOT of audiobooks and this was certainly one of those.
This was a rollicking good read that had me chortling out loud like I haven't done since I first read Guards! Guards! A nutty twist to comic crime fantasy with a suitably happy ending.
The worldbuilding is a lot of fun being fantasy meets Tudor London and some alternative history. A little bit D&D, a little bit steampunk, and a little bit anime. It’s full of parishes and guilds with their own unique feel; beadles and privateers and penny dreadful hacks.
The characters are unique and kooky. The narration by Brendan McDonald is absolutely spot on with a masterful reveal of the mystery's perpetrator. And the humor is perfect for lovers of British humor complete with snippets of wit that will have you rereading and relistening to pick up every litle piece.
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