![]() ![]() ![]() But these characters are, for the most part, rather unpleasant and ornery types that you would never spend 5 seconds with in person, so why would we want to spend hours listening about them? The "resolution" is underwhelming and anyone with half a brain could have figured out the fate of the missing character - anyone with law enforcement experience could have told you after the first chapter what was going down. There are descriptions of idyllic scenery up the yin-yang, so much so that one appears right before the ending of the book! Who cares what the sunset looks like - can you please tie up the loose ends and give us SOME satisfaction for having invested 14-plus hours of listening to this tome? Sometimes a slow-listening novel has payback at the very end, or at least something to justify its glacial pace and keep you interested. ![]() At one point I had listened to 2 hours and nothing of note had transpired. It's a pseudo-"Western" plot that could have come out of a John Ford movie, transplanted to the west of Ireland. Don't pick up this book expecting to listen to a thriller, or a whodoneit, or anything similar to French's murder mysteries. ![]()
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