It Ends at Midnight
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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George Weightman
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Lucy Paterson
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Samara MacLaren
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Written by:
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Harriet Tyce
About this listen
It's New Year's Eve and the stage is set for a lavish party in one of Edinburgh's best postcodes. It's a moment for old friends to set the past to rights-and move on.
The night sky is alive with fireworks and the champagne is flowing. But the celebration fails to materialize.
Because someone at this party is going to die tonight.
Midnight approaches and the countdown begins—but it seems one of the guests doesn't want a resolution.
They want revenge.
From the acclaimed author of Blood Orange comes a thriller of a party spiraling into murder, when one guest's plan to right old wrongs ends in blood, told with Tyce's signature dark and propulsive twists.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- pigletbunny
- 2023-02-26
Solid book; good narration o/than “American” accen
Overall, this book has solid plotting, and complicated characters. (No one-dimensional people here! :-) ) There IS one GLARING, really obvious mistake, that I’ll note at the end of this review, since my comment will be a spoiler.
The narrator performs very well overall, with great cadence and range of emotion. However, she appears to be (subconsciously?) getting back at all of the Americans who have performed British accents quite hideously. (E.g. of one of these REALLY bad attempts, an attempt that’s actually LESS horrible than many others, is Keanu Reeves’s there-not-there accent in Dracula.)s
This narrator voices a TEXAN woman as having a mostly Northern-Minnesota accent, that at times turns into an East Coast accent. There is ZERO drawl in her speech!!! Her husband doesn’t fare much better, not at all sounding like a Texan, but at least the narrator doesn’t give HIM a Fargo accent!
SPOILER ALERT!!!
Okay, now on to the glaringly obvious mistake in the plot:
someone is shown nude pictures of themselves, and immediately knows that they’re fake; it’s their head on someone else’s body. The person states this over and over again, with no-one believing them. NEVER ONCE does the person offer to show what their body ACTUALLY looks like IRL!!! They don’t even do this when it’s obvious that ztheir lawyer believes the photos are genuine. W.T.?!?!? Right.
And, even LESS believable (the person IS freaking out inside, after all, owing to the faked photos having been sent to a teenager) , the person’s lawyer doesn’t think of that, or even of the less-humiliating idea that the person show their SAME-GENDER lawyer what they look like naked IRL.
That is a REALLY bad error. Sigh. At least the author doesn’t perpetuate the (often-used in both books and video-based media) myth that the facial expression a person displays immediately prior to their death remains after the person dies. Think about that for a sec.; when someone dies, their muscles relax, to the extent that they poop themselves. Yet their facial muscles don’t relax?!? Oy vey.
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