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Breaking the Dark
- A Jessica Jones Marvel Crime Novel
- Narrated by: Helen Laser
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Breaking the Dark, the first book in the brand-new Marvel Crime series, introduces fans to a grittier, street-level side of the Marvel Universe, and will continue with original novels featuring fan-favourite characters like Luke Cage, written by S.A. Cosby, and Daredevil, written by Alex Segura.
Meet Jessica Jones: a private investigator and retired super hero based out of Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, who goes from job to job as a hard living, rough talking, loner.
And then a wealthy Upper East Side woman pays her a visit. Amber Randall is concerned about her twin sixteen-year-olds, Lark and Fox, who have acted and looked very different since they returned from spending the summer with their British father in the UK. She tells Jessica that her children have unnaturally perfect skin for teenagers and have lost all the tics and habits that made them who they were. They are not Lark and Fox, she tells Jessica. Something has happened to them.
To find out more, Jessica travels to Essex to talk to their father and once there meets Belle who is living a curiously isolated existence in a run-down farmhouse with her guardian Debra. Jessica knows that Lark and Fox had spent the summer with Belle—but can this unworldly teenager really be responsible for Lark and Fox's new personas?
Jessica soon discovers that, behind Belle and Debra, evil geniuses are playing a dangerous game with technology in order to make the world a "better place", not caring who gets hurt, maimed or even killed in the process. Can Jessica stop them from wreaking destruction on a whole generation of young people?
Nothing is certain in Lisa Jewell's gripping and most imaginative novel yet.
‘The pace doesn’t let up, the characters never once slip. Tricksy, endlessly interesting and pure entertainment, don’t miss this one.' Gillian McAllister
‘Fresh, lively, insightful—and the action scenes hit like a chop. A really cracking story.' AJ Finn
‘Classic Lisa Jewell with an amazing twist!’ Jenny Colgan
'Reveals the depth and complexity of one of the most fascinating and indomitable characters in the Marvel canon.' S. A. Cosby
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- R A.
- 08-07-24
Great fun
A highly entertaining listen. Jessica Jones is a wonderful lead. Don’t be put off by the Marvel’ tag. I know very little, but I still enjoyed the downbeat superhero jaunt. Even more entertaining were mispronunciations by the narrator. Otherwise, it was a very smooth listen.
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- Roobee
- 12-07-24
it was ok
I didn't realise because I didn't look that it was a marvel story. the narrator needs to brush up on her British accents.
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- aRough1
- 09-07-24
Decent performance however...
It's an OK story but this feels like a money grab by Marval for the people who were once hooked and captured by the gritty detective on the Netflix screens rather than hardcore comic book fans. As a Noir esque detective story the story is quite basic and simple...
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-07-24
Entertaining listen
I really enjoyed this. Although there is a departure into super hero territory, there isn’t actually much super heroing going on and it has all the author’s usual page turning style. If you can get past the narrators inability to do anything other than somewhat shaky posh, British accents that are completely inappropriate for most of the characters then it’s a fun listen.
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- mark ellis
- 20-07-24
Disappointing
I usually love anything by Lisa Jewell but this was well below par. I was prepared for the superhero theme so was expecting some excitement and interesting character development but experienced neither. With such a premise it was unexpectedly dull, I kept waiting for some suspense, an exciting twist, or revelation but was disappointed.
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- Linda Guest
- 08-07-24
Ripped off
I didn't realise, although it stated clearly enough, that this was an actual Marvel novel. I now feel ripped off as I wasted one of my precious credits on this book. I saw thw author, have listened to all of Lida Jewell's other books and thought this would be similar. Not a happy bunny.
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- B
- 09-07-24
Awful.
Have listened to all of Lisa Jewels books. Strongly disliked this story so much that I returned it. So so disappointed after waiting for her next release. Just a personal opinion, others may love it. Just too far away from her usual so it didn’t work for me.
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- Amie B.
- 18-07-24
This book should come with a disclaimer
I was so excited to see that Lisa Jewell was bringing out a new book, I pre-ordered and waited for it in anticipation. The first shock was the American accent, then several times I had to check if what I’d purchased was in fact a Lisa jewel book. It is nothing like her usual writing, it lacked her usual brilliance. To say the least, I was heavily disappointed
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- Anonymous User
- 10-07-24
So boring
I love Lisa Jewell’s books so much but this was a real disapointment. So sad but I hope she will go back to her usual writing after this.
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