Good read.

I liked this story.
Got to know some of the uncanny in London Coven which I also enjoyed.
Well written, enteraining.
Narrator was the right person to read book alound.

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A whole other world

I really enjoyed this but you have to have listened or read the London Coven series to have any hope of understanding what is going on but luckily it is just as great a series as this book. This is a new series but a lot of names you know and love are also present, also one that is enough to send you into your own lockdown. Wow, what to say about this book? so much is going on and with time jumping it is not always in the right order but somehow this adds to the story's charm because you will get a lot of 'arh, that's way' moments as things unfold and the story catches up. The characters are interesting, very unique and never what you expect, a bit like the story. So I suggest you sit back and try to hold on as you hurtle through a very different London.
Other London is a place born out of desperation. A monster called Mr Trick what's to consume all of the magic in the world by eating all the uncanny's, to save them Other London was built and sealed up tight. But he wants in and without the London Coven of witches to stop him who will stand in his way? Stella Familiar, the only one of the coven to have survived and she is just the witches familiar with no real magic of her own, has suffered to much to care but can she be made too? Because the knocking won't stop. If Mr Trick has tried for two centuries to get in, then somebody is bound to be trying to get out and with the arrival of the human Verity into the world, then somebody might have just found a way to open the door.
Wow the narrator is amazing. She sent chills down my back with some of the voices used and she most definitely brought the book alive. I hope she continues to be the narrator of choice for this series because there is no way anybody could do it justice after this one.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

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Mr Trick is going to find you.

Enjoyed listening and was glad to see characters from previous books . Heathers narration was perfect .

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“Much preferring to gamble with his life”

Amazing!
Probably the darkest of the Uncanny Kingdom so far, and pretty intense throughout.
Such a brilliant story with amazing characters and really well narrated with great character voices.
I can’t wait for more in the series/world!
This is my honest opinion on a free review copy.

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brilliant!

brilliant again!
Great story, great characters,
made even better by the narrator.
would make a really good film!
clever author.

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Mr Trick is coming to town, and he's hungry!

As always, Heather Tracy's narration brings the story to life in a way that draws the reader in and doesn't stop until it's done. Her performance, the voices, the passion with which she delivers the story serve to make her one of my favourite narrators.
So. 'other London' has come into being as a vault, a place of safety for all the uncanny of London, but is it safe? Somebody wants to get in, is insistently rapping at the doors, and somebody wants to get out. Stella Familiar is back again to save the uncanny, but no, she's changed, 200 years of wallowing in her grief has left her battered and unwilling to help anyone but herself. Is everything as it should be? The great wizard Giles Lemerrier seems to think so.
Highly recommend.

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Fantastic

Awesome performance of a great addition to the series. With them all trapped with what’s seemed to be no way out… or is there?

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A great concept

From the blurb on this book I thought I was going to have an interesting take on the fish out of water story of someone without magic being plunged into an all encompassing world of magic. The character of Verity sounded sweet but meek and I was looking forward to seeing her grow into herself after being thrown into Other London.

However what I got was an interesting, twisting story of mainly male egos duking it out. Carlie and the other male wizards were the main focus of the story, Verity seemed l, for the most part a completely pointless addition to the narrative, the story would have functioned just as well without her, possibly even better as the lack of an actual role for her within the story started to grate on me not long after starting.

There were two characters that I adored in this book and they were Stella familiar and David. Stella is the well written, well formed female character I was hoping to see Verity start to grow into. Everything about Stella expresses strength, but not just in the physical sense, or even in this case magical, but in her ability to just keep going, despite all of the pain, all of the guilt, the ghosts chasing her, she just keeps going, showing a remarkable reailliance for a character who considers herself disgrace; and then there's David. Poor David who met a terrible fate and isn't actually in the story much at all but makes a huge impression with his warmth and likeability from the first moment he is introduced, along with his understanding and acceptance of certain things that just have to be, he gave a very human aspect to Stella's character.

I have to say that MR Trick was a brilliantly fun villan, some of the descriptions of him were truly unnerving.

So overall I mostly liked the book, it was good fun in places, in others it felt repetitive, going over the same scenes again and again from different views but not giving anything new from the fresh perspective which was disappointing. The discrepancy between Verity being very meek and then wanting to stand up for herself, then super meek again wore thin quickly, there was no character growth and the end of her story just felt flat, it was so close to "and she woke up and it was all a dream". I was just hoping for better.

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