Savage Girl By, Jean Zimmerman Narrated by, Edoardo
Ballerini
This book grabbed me from the start and it did keep me
guessing as to who was killing the men, however there were times the story was
disjointed and hard to figure out when in time it was, because it is told in
flashbacks.
I liked it but I didn’t love it. Parts of this story I really
enjoyed and as I said it kept me guessing and I would have never guessed who
the eventual killer ended up being, so that was good, but the way the story was
told I felt hampered the story. I felt at times it was because Hugo, who is
telling the story, was so frenetic and so the story felt that way too.
I also felt I didn’t really get to know Bronwyn (savage
girl) at all even though this story is about her and I also felt like Hugo didn’t
really get to know her either and that his fanatic love for her that was on the
verge of obsession was all in his head from his first meeting with her, so
their “love story” almost felt forced to me because we the reader had no idea
just what her feelings for Hugo may have been. I wanted to know more about Bronwyn
and wish there would have been a little more about how the family was able to
get her from Savage Girl to ladylike Bronwyn.
What I did enjoy was the sense of the time and it also has a
bit of a gothic feel and the edge of your seat I can’t figure out who the real
murderer is, was well done.
I received this book from netgalley and when I started
reading the ARC I realized I was reading it in Edoardo Ballerini’s voice, so I
took to twitter to tell the publisher that he should narrate this audiobook and
my answer came from Edoardo himself saying he had just finished recording it
and it would be out soon. So needless to say I stopped reading the ARC and
waited for the audiobook and I was not disappointed, his narration was perfect
his accents and characters were spot on and I found I was right his was the
perfect voice for this audiobook.
This was a good story but the frenetic way it is told is a
little off-putting.
3 ½ Stars
5 Star Narration
No comments:
Post a Comment