ENTERTAINING.

From an exciting name in British horror and the author of Hekla’s Children comes a dark, haunting tale of our world and the next After her hand is amputated following a tragic accident, Rachel Cooper suffers vivid nightmares of a woman imprisoned in the trunk of a hollow tree, screaming for help. When she begins to experience phantom sensations of leaves and earth with her missing limb, Rachel is terrified she is going mad . . . but then another hand takes hers,
I liked this book, the story is well written and the pace is good. The plot draws you in with different strands and the narration is okay. But. There is something about the characters and the dialogue that somehow do not run true for me. I felt the relationship between the main character and her husband was a bit flat, yes there is drama and tension, it would be boring with out it, but what we have is so so. The idea is well visualised and if not original, entertaining enough to keep you listening, but again there is something missing and I don't know what it is.

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love it

As I accepted from James Brogden book it was interesting and not like other books. He twisting story in unexpected turns :D

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story was excellent

the reference to places I know living in England. fascinating story as well. otherworldly

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Brilliant

love it, it was a great story, will be reading more of James Brogdens books

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Ruined by the narrator

I chose this book having enjoyed others by the same author. The story was ok, although not as good as the author’s other work. Unfortunately the narrator ruined this for me. They sounded completely unsuitable for the protagonist who was said to be born and bred in Birmingham. I don’t think the narrator can ever have heard a midlands accent! Even allowing for a non-regional narration the voice was strange, with odd tones and pronunciations and I felt it just didn’t fit the main character at all. The other characters were as bad, the ‘Scottish’ one was laughable!
It’s a shame the narration was so poor as I think I would have got a lot more from this story if it had been read differently.

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Brilliant story…less impressive narration

I love James Brogden and this was another wonderful story with an interesting crossover between the here and now, legend, and fantasy. There are a few loose ends that I’m not sure I fully grasped but I really enjoyed it nonetheless.

I wasn’t keen on the narrator - her voice didn’t match the personality of the main character in the slightest - but this didn’t spoil my overall experience.

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Began good ,took a dip in the middle finished well

Narrator struggled a bit maintaining different characters voices. Got a bit confusing. Nice accent

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brilliant story, poorly chosen narration

the story was great, engaging with a good pace but the narration was such a poor choice. It took away from the book. The main character is a witty young woman who is made to sound like an aristocratic old lady. There are some dodgy accents and some of the word pronunciations were truly shocking! Sigils was pronounced 'siggles' and Peugeot was pronounced 'pea jou' just to point out a few! are these things not listened to by an editor or anything???

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Awful narration!

Story was good BUT narrator was terrible and really shouldn't have even bothered trying to do different accents, her "Scottish" accent was a mixture of West country with Irish hints, her German accent was dire and she got muddled with whose accent was which! Made it very hard to continue listening.

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Not nearly as good as The Plague Stones or Hekla’s Children

I don’t know why, but this is much worse than The Plague Stones and Hekla’s Children. Disappointed.

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