A Miss For Me

2 out of 5 stars

It’s been quite a while since I’ve had a hard time getting into a book.  Eavesdrop just felt like it was kind of all over the place in its execution.  I had a real hard time figuring out why things were happening and things just felt like they were thrown in here for the sake of having them – not to add to the story.

The narration itself (and production/post) also bugged me more than it usually does.  It wasn’t bad, but when an author jumps around between characters, plot points, and places – pausing and the ability to switch tones, voices, and feeling when it’s not there it really takes away from the book.

The plot itself was interesting but hard to follow.  I wanted to like this more than I did and I even put it down for a while hoping that I was just in a funk instead of it being a problem with the book.  I don’t like being the only review of a book when I’m talking negative about it, but I had to write what I thought about it so that others could make up their own choices.

I thought this was going to be more of a technothriller but it actually reads more like a spy thriller than anything.  I like those as well – but going into it with one thought and getting another definitely hurt my thought on the book a bit.

Overall, a miss from me, but others might enjoy it.

Book Description:

Eavesdrop by Ian Coates
Narrator: Simon Darwen
Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
on November 29th 2018
Genres: Spy Thriller, Thriller

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