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The Graveyard of the Hesperides

Falco: The New Generation (Flavia Albia, Book 4)

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The Graveyard of the Hesperides

By: Lindsey Davis
Narrated by: Sarah Feathers
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From the creator of Falco comes Falco: the new generation, featuring her unforgettable heroine Flavia Albia in her fourth novel.

Life is sweet for Flavia Albia and her soon-to-be husband Faustus. But his new job as a building contractor runs into a problem: At the Garden of the Hesperides a barmaid went missing years before; now the workmen start unearthing her bones.

Albia takes on the task of finding out what happened. Five more skeletons are discovered. Despite the fact that nobody seems to know or care who died, violent attempts are made to stop her enquiries.

Soon Albia is exploring the world of Roman streetlife, where bars are brothels, workers lead brutal lives, foreigners are muscling in on the gambling syndicates, and extortion is commonplace. What's more there's little time to solve the mystery before the wedding day when Albia is expected to show Rome that her affair with Manlius is a much more than a casual fling. The gods, however, have other ideas....

©2016 Lindsey Davis (P)2016 Hodder & Stoughton Crime Fiction Detective Fiction Historical Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Rome

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The female narrator was not, in my opinion very good at creating the characterisations. Indeed at times she used pretty much the same accent, tone and inflexions for everyone!
Story line was a bit bland and flat.

Not the usual standard

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Why, oh why fix something that isn't broken! Both Lucy Brown and Jane Collingwood are such amazing narrators for Flavia Albia, so why get someone else yet again? The relative monotonous narration here makes it sleep-invoking and I have to keep going back to where I nodded off, because the story is, of course, great! I'm sure this narrator is good for some books, but not for Flavia. She gets 3 stars because she does get a bit better as she gets into the story, but she never gets really good, like both other ladies are right from the start!

Excellent story, monotonous narration

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I'm firmly in the 'can't beat a Lindsey Davis' camp; here is another layered, twisting plot played out against an evocative, insightful landscape. Hooray for a Roman post-feminist heroine and interesting female characters!
Such a shame the narration was so flat, Sarah Feathers sounding for all the world like a bored and distracted Kirsty Allsop. It meant that I frequently tuned out and had to re-listen to big sections at a time. Audio books are immensely valuable to me as something to listen to whilst doing something else - driving, housework, etc, so the narration as well as plot has to capture me; Lucy Brown and Jane Collingwood both managed it admirably in the previous tales of Flavia Albia. I'd happily cough up for a retake, Audible...?

Great story, shame about the narration

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I love Lyndsey Davis, and have enjoyed all of her publications on audiobook. The graveyard of Hesperides did not disappoint. However, the narration was so difficult to follow. It felt like sentences were being read as as a series of statements rather than having any flow, and it was difficult to distinguish between characters resulting in having to repeat sections. Frustrating as it distracted me from the storyline which was good!

Great story but really difficult to listen to!

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did not enjoy the readers voice.Did not suit Albia,The reader of the previous books was much



better, hope the next readers is better

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Quite a good story although no surprise when the murders named. I am afraid Ms Feathers is a little too laid back and fails to express any of the humour that is in the writing.

Still not as good as Falco

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No idea whether the story is as good as the previous 3 in the series as the performance is so low energy, undirected and sloppy.
The wrong narrator for Flavia Alba with none of the twinkle and wit which the previous narrators have brought out.

Carry on up the Forum!

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Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Sarah Feathers?

Lucy Brown, who did the first 2 Flavia Albia stories

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I struggled to get past the poor narration. The different voices sounded like someone fresh from drama school, the mens' voices particularly poor. Need to listen to the book again to pick up the fine details of the story. Or maybe just read it in book format.
What a shame, because Lindsey Davies really gives us a taste of Roman life for women and the lower orders, which is where I would have been!

Poor narrator distracted from the story

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I couldn't really concentrate on or enjoy this because I found Sarah Feathers' voice so grating. Sorry, Sarah! When I wasn't gnashing my teeth, the story seemed OK ...

No to the New Narrator

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In an audio book the narrator can make or break even the best book, out of the narrators chosen so far Lucy Brown has been the best, though she still sounds a bit too posh for Flavia in my mind. The story brings Flavia's love life and mixes it with murder, these book are getting better and the Flavia / Falco world are developing nicely, please settle on a narrator.

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