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Dave reviews: The Rook, by Daniel O'Malley, read by Susan Duerden
Posted on 2013-01-16 at 01:44 by Sam
The Rook, by Daniel O’Malley, read by Susan Duerden for Dreamscape
Review by Dave Thompson:
Imagine if J.K. Rowling had decided to do a Ministry of Magic novel and you’ve basically got the set-up for The Rook.
The Rook has a little bit of everything in it: It’s as if O’Malley took some of the best (and worst) tropes from the last 20 years of genre fiction, tossed them into a blender with his own special ingredients, and served up a tasty little cocktail with fruit and an umbrella. It starts off a bit
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Audiobook release day: Daniel O'Malley's The Rook and Gail Carriger's Timeless: The Parasol Protectorate, the Fifth
Posted on 2012-03-02 at 02:58 by Sam
March 1 brings with it two much-anticipated audiobooks, though also sees the print publication of a few books I’d love to see/hear in audio.
First up among those anticipated audiobooks is The Rook: A Novel By Narrated by O’Malley’s debut was published in hardcover and e-book by Little, Brown and Company on January 11, and it was on both my radar and my “where’s the audio?” list, put onto the former by TIME magazine book editor (and author of T
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