{"id":20863,"date":"2022-10-09T19:23:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T23:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=20863"},"modified":"2024-01-22T19:07:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T00:07:23","slug":"what-abigail-did-that-summer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/20863","title":{"rendered":"What Abigail Did That Summer, Audio Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Abigail Did That Summer<\/a><\/em> (2021) Ben Aaronovitch<\/a> narrated by Shvorne Marks and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Rivers of London)<\/p>\n

\"What<\/a>First, this is Abigail’s story. Peter doesn’t make an appearance (although we see Nightingale and hear from Postmartin).<\/p>\n

Second, this story jumps back and forth in time, opening with Abigail at a police station, and then jumping back to how she got there. I definitely picked up more the second time around.<\/p>\n

Also, I appreciated the footnotes more this time.<\/p>\n

He smiles and he\u2019s got this peng(1) smile which lights up his whole face and shows perfect white teeth. You can\u2019t fight a smile like that. You can only hope that its owner has sworn an oath to only use it for good.<\/p>\n

1 According to my great niece\u2014\u201c Handsome, good looking you know\u2014 attractive!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The fact that the were “written” by Postmartin is a delight.<\/p>\n

I admit Abigail can be a bit overwhelming, but we slowly–in tiny pieces–learn about her brother, and that explains so very much of Abigail. Plus, it’s only a novella, rather than a longer story.<\/p>\n

But mostly I adore the fact that his characters get away from him, and take on lives of their own, as obviously Abigail was supposed to be a passing character in a single book, but then she immediately became more.<\/p>\n

You always watch scary movies and laugh at the white girls that go inside when they should be hopping a bus to the next postcode. But, real talk\u2014 most of the time you\u2019re not in a film and the music doesn\u2019t go all minor key to clue you in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Publisher: Tantor Audio<\/p>\n

Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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