I struggled to enjoy this.

I found this book an ordeal. I really wanted to like it, and it held promise. The story is highly complex, multiple characters with bizarre names, and no effort from the reader to differentiate voices.
The reader sounds as if he’s reading a railway timetable. Measured, with suboptimal vocalisation of emotion or differentiation between characters.

In the end, after a few hours of perseverance, I could not endure.

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Thoroughly enjoyable

What a weird and wonderful mystery this is!! Brilliantly narrated. Such a unique story, will definitely return to this author.

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loved it

lots of mind bending weirdness, especially the characters. looking forward to more mystery and weirdness

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Fantastic whimsical story

I loved this trilogy - it was clever, engrossing and an interesting piece of political satire. beautifully written with colourful characters and disturbing and complex story line. Hope the author will write some more novels in this vein as he has a real skill.

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Not the worst book I've read.

I've just finished Rotherweird and now I am sat here ruminating over the story and find I still have questions and am more than a little confused.
I listened to it on "audible" and was constantly having to rewind and check on the meanderings of the story.
I think it was a good concept but I was forever trying to place in my mind what era it was set in and who all the characters were.
If it hadn't been for the brilliant narration and character voices I would have surely lost track.
The description of the town could have been fantastic with it's unusual architecture and yet somehow it just didn't paint a vivid picture in my mind. I was continually left - wanting.
Maybe it's just me but I feel that this book could have been so much more. That being said , it's not the worst book I've read and one of the few I have ever felt the need to write a review.
Maybe I need to read the other books in the series to make sense of it all.

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Intriguing

This is an interesting story and as it went along I became far more intrigued with it than I thought I would be when I started it.
A community seperate from the rest of the country by royal decree. No study of their history is allowed, but what a tangled history it turns out to be.
A new history teacher and the renovation of the town’s Manor house appear to be the catalyst for some extraordinary revelations and suspicious deaths.
The characters have rather unique names and I will admit that I found it hard to keep the names in my head to begin with. The story wove in directions I hadn’t anticipated. I did feel as if not all loose ends we tied up at the end. Maybe I just need to go back and check.

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Didn't live up to expectations

The narration was Very annoyingly S l o w....... the gaps and pauses were long enough to fit in a nap. The story was a little confusing and characters hard to follow in the audible format but that may have been because I sped up the pace.

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Twisted and unpredictable!

This is an excellent story, really well read. Part mystery, part alternate history, it kept me interested and entertained right to the end.

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bit slow

Just a little slow at times. But great ideas, characters, and stories. give it a listen!

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A slog

I finished it, but it didn’t feel satisfying. The character names were kinda off putting because they gave it a YA vibe but the story isn’t YA. And the mention of the illegality of looking into this town’s history, so repetitively, was overdone.

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