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Originally Posted by Tarana
Just starting Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold and read by Gardner Grover (who is GREAT!). This is supposed to be a major turning point book in the series so looking forward to it.
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Yup, Gardner is great, and I can't imaging Miles Vorkosigan with any other voice.
(But it's Grover Gardner, not Gardner Grover.)
I just finished "The Last Dance: The Near-Earth Mysteries, Book 1" by Martin L. Shoemaker, which I apparently bought on Amazon several years ago and totally forgot about.
It was an interesting story, and the audiobook device of having a different narrator for when each character tells their first-hand parts of the story actually worked well. The format involves the main investigator character getting first hand accounts from various people, and the device did make me feel immersed in the investigation.
My one complaint about the writing is that he seemed to have played fast and loose with the ranks of some of the characters, sometimes calling them "Chief" and other times calling them "Lieutenant" or "Ensign." In at least one part of the book, this seems to be because the character's rank changed between the present and the time they were recounting, but it was not clear at the time, and other times there was no such apparent in-world justification. I found it distracting in a story that was grounded in mostly realistic near-future SF.
I will seek out the other books in the series at some point.
I also recently finished the first Harry Hole novel, "The Bat" by Jo Nesbo.
I sought it out because I had just finished the last Harry Bosch novel, and some thread on Goodreads said Harry Hole was "just like Harry Bosch" except he's Norwegian.
Turns out, other than the fact that they are both homicide detectives named Harry, they have nothing in common.
I am more like Harry Bosch than Harry Hole is.
I didn't actually dislike the book, but it's not my cup of tea at all, and I doubt I'll try any more in the series.
If anyone does know of something in the "if you like Harry Bosch, then you'll like..." vein, please let me know.
ApK