Ebook Shrill Dusk City of Magic Series Book 1 Audible Audio Edition Helen Harper Ruth Urquhart Tantor Audio Books

Product details Audible Audiobook Listening Length 7 hours and 18 minutes Program Type Audiobook Version Unabridged Publisher Tantor Audio Audible.com Release Date March 5, 2019 Whispersync for Voice Ready Language English, English ASIN B07NWXKN7X

Shrill Dusk City of Magic Series Book 1 Audible Audio Edition Helen Harper Ruth Urquhart Tantor Audio Books Reviews

• I really like the heroine and felt that she had a very strong beginning.
  
  The middle of the story was a chaotic mess with dozens of secondary characters popping up and deciding to live in Charley’s house.
  
  Most seem interesting but with so many we never get a real chance to learn about them.
  
  The book summary might need some tweaking as well because I was expecting a slightly different type of book. This is on a much smaller scale- both the enemies and the heroes.
  
  Some spoilers
  
  She’s also a different type of hero- not one to save the world, but one to pick up the pieces after the world was saved...I think that she would’ve worked better if the entire world was effected and not just one city that they could’ve left at anytime.
  
  The ending was decent.
  
  However I would point out that she really doesn’t save the world or anything like that- someone else does. Also she decides to stay in a city with less than 10% population remaining that was abandoned by government. Also there is no way they would be able to effectively survive long term. They might survive a few years, but Food would run out eventually and a city wouldn’t have any place for hunting and farming.
  
  Since the government will no longer let them leave the city limits—-they cannot hunt or farm.
  
  A few plot holes in my opinion.
  
  Overall- I like her writing and will continue to read her other books, but will give this series a pass.
• This Helen Harper, while another fabulous and funny story with witty characters and fascinating plot that kept me reading the entire book in one day, is more of a Slice-of-Life type. It has lots of surprising and horrifying terrors from the view of a human in Manchester during the magical chaos of her last trilogy (and I’m so glad she’s continuing that story in this slim-off), rather than a long-term quest style of story. A fun dystopia with magic, sarcasm and morals... and a touch of romantic tension, and I’m intrigued to read the next book!
• One of my biggest complaints about the series focussing on Madrona was that it left so many dangling plotlines. What happened to Charley and her shifter roommate? What about the werewolves? And the vampire? And the dude who ran the motel? This series is apparently going to focus on what happens after Madrona returns to her proper world. And it's awesome. Charley is really a fully formed character. The way she behaves is clearly tied to her background. It makes sense. Max was a little one-dimensional, and Julie and Jodie were walk-ons, but I'm really looking forward to the next installment in this series!
• Sorry but I did not like this book. Charley the main character was so incredibly annoying that I found myself skimming the book just to finish it. Most of the time I wanted to slap her for being so naive. I will not be reading the second book.
• I did finish the book, but I put it down and very nearly returned it after the prologue. The idea of a magical ‘contamination’ of a modern city is quite interesting, and while I loathe the flaw of the main character, being compulsively impulsive in a very particular way, I can see how something like the prologue is required to support such extreme behavior. That said, I recommend to the author to find another way to do it, so you traumatize your reader a bit less.
• This book starts after Madrona the faery, and what happened after she saved the world. Read that first. Then this. I enjoyed it very much and look forward to the sequel.
• Unfortunately, I could not finish reading this book as it has something terrible happening to a child in it. Too bad, hopefully the story got better.
• After being disappointed by the previous series, a wonderful new series begins. Magical apocalypse indeed. A theme that is quite new