A ripper of a story...! :)

Can't understand the negative reviews about the narration. Both narrators were brilliant, clear and animated without being over the top. Both have lovely voices. Took a few chapters to get into but once I did it was great. It's such an unusual story, I really like the premise of it. It's not overly gory...personally I'd have liked a bit more romping and blood and guts but that's just me :D,
It was a little slow in places...but just a tiny bit.
There's definitely so much that can be expanded on to make other great stories.

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Good take on an old story

There are a lot of negative reviews about the narration on this, however, I found neither narration done badly. I have heard better but definitely heard a lot worse. The Society for Soulless Girls for example. Overall I really enjoyed listened and read together

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Unlikely gem

I am no “ripperologist” but this was a great book. Didn’t expect some of the twists. Enjoyed this .

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Mixed feelings

The story was interesting and I think I may have enjoyed reading it myself more. The voice of Emily just felt not quite right and made me want those parts to be done quickly. I felt no compassion for her character and found her annoying (largely I think down to the voice - sorry). Having the different character viewpoints and seeing how the stories joined was interesting.

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Poor reading marrs a decent storyline

An unusual & worthwhile story spoilt by poor performance.
Neither narrator seems fluent in their part, they sound too much like people reading out loud from a book they don't much like. And why use a narrator who can't do a Welsh accent to read a part that needs one?
Added to this there are lots of mispronunciations, which I find really irritating. This book has numerous examples of why narrators really should look up words they aren't familiar with.
The storyline was enough to keep me listening & the characters were well-formed so I might well read (or with different narrators listen to) another book by this author. I'd like to have given it a better score but I simply couldn't because of the ghastly presentation.

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Great storyline

Great storyline but the narration wasn’t good. Posh accents way too accentuated and cockney accents drifted from posh to cockney every now and then.
That said, the storyline was good and had a good twist on the end .
Maybe Constance and Emily will continue to appear in other books but with better and more believable narration .
After all said and done The Sixth Victim gets a thumbs up from me

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Well paced multi-layered mystery story with gentle ghost element

I thought this was brilliant, and very well narrated. I liked the subtlety of the spiritual element. Highly recommended.

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Intriguing tale well told

Excellent and Clever twist to an old tale. A mix of Supernatual and Suspense set in an atmospheric historical period, with realistic and interesting characters. Well worth the listen, you won't to stop until the end.

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Eery take on Jack the Ripper London

This started slowly but the tension built up as the story developed. I liked the main characters of Emily and Conny and rooted for them throughout.

This book takes you into the underbelly of Victorian society, not just shining a light on the poorer classes but also the privileged. It show the violence, corruption and lack of any respect for those of lower class working people. Life is cheap here if you’re poor whilst the rich can afford to appear respectable whilst using their money and position to take advantage and abuse.

I thought the author captured the atmosphere of fear in Whitechapel at time of the murders very well and the descriptions of Victorian slums are very accurate.

Be warned there are some horrific scenes and only lightly veiled child abuse.

This story kept me riveted waiting to see what would happen. Will I read the next in the series? I’m not sure. I wanted some lightness among all the darkness in this book but there was very little. Would I recommend it yes.

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Unexpected, surprising and enjoyable.

This story started very slowly . Fortunately it took a large leap and speeded up becoming very interesting and surprising so I didn't want to stop listening to it.
I enjoyed this story very much and I thought the narration was very good too.
This is a diffinitely a different take on Jack the Ripper.
worth a listening to = enjoy, I know I did.

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