Orientation
A Borealis Investigations, Book 1
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Orientation
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Gregory Ashe
About this listen
Shaw and North are best friends, private detectives, and in danger of losing their agency. A single bad case, followed by crippling lawsuits, has put them on the brink of closing shop. Until, that is, a client walks into their Benton Park office.
Matty Fennmore is young, blond, and beautiful, and he’s in danger. When he asks for Shaw and North’s help foiling a blackmail scheme, the detectives are quick to accept.
The conspiracy surrounding Matty runs deeper than Shaw and North expect. As they dig into the identity of Matty’s blackmailer, they are caught in a web that touches politicians, the local LGBT community, and the city’s police.
An attack on Matty drives home the rising stakes of the case, and Shaw and North must race to find the blackmailer before he can silence Matty. But a budding romance lays bare long-buried feelings between Shaw and North, and as their relationship splinters, solving the case may come at the cost of their friendship.
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Great story
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What I did like about this book is that the characters of Shaw and North are nothing like those of Hazard and Somerset and there is much more humour within the storyline.
However, personally, I do feel the choice of narrator did not do the audiobook any justice. Whilst Charlie David is a very good narrator, I don’t think he carries off crime/mysteries off very well.
I can see why Gregory Ashe May have wanted to differentiate between the different series by using separate narrators, but Tristan James or another comparable narrator would have been preferable to me.
Intriguing
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Good story
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Great new series and accomplished narration
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***Book Review May 2019***
5 outstanding stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Gregory Ashe...you've done it again. Another fantastic series in the offing, and you're already making the MC's work very hard to a) stay alive and b) actually see each other instead of looking straight through and dismissing everything as 'just friends'. A Gay Fiction whodunit at it's finest, with wonderful banter, this is NOT a friends to lovers romance...yet...she says hopefully 🤞🤞🤞.
Yes, Shaw and North will do anything for each other but North won't admit that (view spoiler) [heads up for domestic abuse] and Shaw certainly won't admit that he's been love with North since college...and that the awful attack he suffered at college, which killed his then boyfriend and left him badly scarred, has also understandably left him with intimacy, trust and flashback issues.
Blackmail, drag queens, hustlers and violence...this story had it all. I liked Pari too, and yes North said some pretty dreadful stuff to Shaw that he wished he could've taken back the second they left his mouth and which he now sincerely regrets, but I think he's mainly ashamed of how much he feels for Shaw, given the fact that he's married to Tucker. As for Shaw...well, we'll see what happens as the series progresses. He clearly deserves some happiness.
Great start to this series....
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After the Hazard and Somerset series, I wasn't sure if Gregory Ashe could create another set of characters I could come to care for. Plus, there is the added bonus of having Charlie David's narration. However, with the introduction of Shaw and North, private detectives I am hooked.
Their complex friendship is an important thread running through the story and their inate need to protect one another informs their decision making but this does not stand in the way of good crime story where there are a number of untrustworthy and downright unpleasant people who you have working at guessing their motives and level of guilt. (This includes the cops).
Charlie David keeps a natural rhythm and the characters are distinct. He helps the characters unfold and you can't help rooting for the lead protagonIsts to obtain the things they deserve.
I already have the next two ebooks in my library as some threads are ongoing. I hope that the audible narrations are not too far behind.
Ashe has another winner with this new series
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"Orientation", no1 of a new series, had a messy drawn-out start and North and Shaw come out fighting as the most ridiculous 'investigators' I've ever heard. Their back and forth banter while questioning a client isn't cute. It's annoying as hell.
The story arc for "Orientation" was a copy of another Gregory Ashe book "They told me I was everything" - two broken men sleuthing to find a flash drive that contains compromising material that is being used for blackmail and leads to murders. Any other author who wrote the same storyline for two books and just changed the character names/jobs/backstories would be pulled over the coals, but not Gregory Ashe who seems to do no wrong in the eyes of his fans. I disagree.
The narrative was all over the place. It was hard to keep up with the flow of information in backstories and the anything-but-linear investigation. The messy, convoluted start to "Orientation" meant I didn't fall for these characters, in fact, I found them both really irritating, and as the book continued I became more and more confused about what was going on. There were some really poorly constructed scenes and unnatural dialogue, not something I expected from Gregory Ashe. I also noticed that Gregory Ashe has never written a nice female character. The few women in his books are always horrible high maintenance bitches.
Sadly, what really put me off the most was the poor narration. I cannot believe that a professional narrator doesn't know where to take a breath during a sentence. Charlie David doesn't do accents or individual voices for characters. His lack of performance skills and finesse meant that many of the nuances of the writing were lost. I don't believe he was the right choice for this book.
I'm not a fan of the trend of dragging a scene out and giving pages and pages of internal monologues that are, in the end, irrelevant. It feels like this book was speed-written and lacked the editing to make it into a shorter, tighter, better story.
Possibly the worst 'Investigators' I've ever heard
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