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A review by jenbsbooks
The Heron by Don Winslow
3.25
I liked this. Super short, only-on-Audible ... unlike the Amazon "collections" of short stories that have a Kindle copy and audio included as part of prime, this Plus program inclusion, Audible Original Stories... is only audio. I'm sure the author wrote it down, that narrator Ed Harris (who I am familiar enough with his acting career to totally picture him the whole time I was listening) read from ... but there's no Kindle/ebook copy. I missed having it. I prefer audio, I like listening while multi-tasking, but I still want to SEE things, make notes/highlights, have the text there for reference. I missed it SO much (I have a print version on hand for 95% of my audio). Here, I was struggling a bit with the names, keeping track of who was who (WHO was The Heron nickname? Ok, Gibson. Then there's the billionaire guy ... started with an O (Osterman... I need print to remember names), then the "agent" and the "killer" (Musgrove, Welsh)? Spelling? I don't know. I had to go back and relisten to a portion a few times because my mind kept wandering and I wasn't sure who was who. There were some other people (one woman) but mainly it's the four fellows.
Told in a basic 3rd person, past tense - our omniscient narrator Ed tells the story.
I've read enough thriller/mysteries that it's really hard to catch me with a twist. I'm always looking, guessing ... and this one was pretty predictable in my opinion. I liked it though. There was an interesting little play on "The Heron" (not only Gibson compared to one, but also Welsh).
Without my Kindle copy, I can't check words ... there was some proFanity. Some sex, murder.
There are quite a few short stories with this author and Ed ... I'll likely give them a try too (but might need to space them out so the stories don't run together in my mind).
Told in a basic 3rd person, past tense - our omniscient narrator Ed tells the story.
I've read enough thriller/mysteries that it's really hard to catch me with a twist. I'm always looking, guessing ... and this one was pretty predictable in my opinion. I liked it though. There was an interesting little play on "The Heron" (not only Gibson compared to one, but also Welsh).
Without my Kindle copy, I can't check words ... there was some proFanity. Some sex, murder.
There are quite a few short stories with this author and Ed ... I'll likely give them a try too (but might need to space them out so the stories don't run together in my mind).