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Something from the Nightside

Nightside Series, Book 1

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Something from the Nightside

By: Simon R. Green
Narrated by: Dan Calley
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Taylor is the name, John Taylor. My card says I'm a detective, but what I really am is an expert on finding lost things. It's part of the gift I was born with as a child of the Nightside.

I left there a long time ago, with my skin and sanity barely intact. Now I make my living in the sunlit streets of London. But business has been slow lately, so when Joanna Barrett showed up at my door, reeking of wealth, asking me to find her runaway teenage daughter, I didn't say no.

Then I found out exactly where the girl had gone.

The Nightside. That square mile of Hell in the middle of the city, where it's always three a.m. Where you can walk beside myths and drink with monsters. Where nothing is what it seems and everything is possible.

I swore I'd never return. But there's a kid in danger and a woman depending on me. So I have no choice - I'm going home.

©2003 Simon R. Green (P)2022 Tantor Detective Fantasy Fiction Mystery Private Investigators Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Paranormal City

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I listened to this after the Spectral Detective series and was very confused. Narrated in the same style and very similar voice, the only difference being, one's a ghost PI, the other is a not quite sure what PI. I can't find anything in this story which would - 1. keep me awake and 2. make me go through another one.
clichéd, repetitive and just a melange of so many other books, except instead of developing a story the answer to everything is 'the Nightside'.

Blame it on the Nightside.

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This is one of my favourite book series and I was delighted to see that it had been released with a British reader.

Unfortunately Dan Calley is one of the worst readers I have ever heard. His voice rises in the wrong places and he sounds like he's reading a shopping list.

So disappointed. Also annoying that I can't return it as I paid for it instead of using a credit. Apparently books can only be returned if bought with a credit.

The previous recording of the series was by an American pretending to be English and that was horrendous too. I give up.

Utterly dreadful narrator

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I really enjoy these books but this is a pointless re-record by audible, the original narrator was so much better.This seams to be audibles new model, do a new recording with new narrators and sell it as if it is a new book. guess this is what happens when Amazon buy companies.

the old narrator was better.

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This was a decent enough book. The prose was gwnerally good, the characters if a bit two-dimensional were perfectly serviceable, the plot was alright and I'm not disappointed to have spent my time on it.

However, the author insists on repeating the phrase "in the Nightside" incessantly in the earliee chapters. It's not really as egregious later but when another reviewer said it was used 169 times I thought that seems low. The frustrating thing is without "The Nightside" the speech would be so much better and more impactful. Here's a few examples from the book:

"Should we be afraid?"
"Always, in the Nightside."

"Miracles do happen, sometimes, in the Nightside."

"What if she... doesn't want to leave? Stranger things have happened in the Nightside."

"A final warning: remember nothing is ever what it seems in the Nightside."

"Easy Suzie, she's new to the Nightside."

"Like so many times before in the Nightside I'd found the truth at last."

This was by far and away the worst part of the book beyond the slightly dumb main character and the PI/Private Eye pun that overran. The narration was good but I won't be recommending this to anyone... in the Nightside.

Good but glad it was short

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