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Dark Harbour

By: Abi Hynes, Victoria Rigby, Somalia Nonye Seaton, Helen Simmons
Narrated by: full cast
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1812. In Bath and London, Jane Austen's characters are attending balls, and the Bridgerton family are making waves in Regency high society. But these are the grimy streets of Liverpool: a city where the extreme wealth of international commerce meets brothels and brawls, smugglers and secrecy; where both high and low society operate amidst revolutionary rumblings from France and the shadow of the recently abolished slave trade.

When the city’s most powerful shipping dynasty is ripped apart by the sudden death of its patriarch, a fierce battle for power ensues between the remaining members of the Hanley family. Backstabbing, betrayal, long-buried secrets—the Hanleys will use every underhand trick in the book to compete for control of the business and their inheritance. But, as they make and break alliances with each other, the city's wolves are circling. There are plenty of people ready and waiting to seize power, and to enact their vengeance on the family of John Hanley, whose past crimes can't stay hidden for much longer....

Succession meets Downton Abbey by way of Peaky Blinders in this gripping family saga.

Starring: Alex Good, Aston Kelly, Bethany Muir, Cherrelle Skeete, Jack Mcmullen, John Thomson, Katy Cavanagh-Jupe, Oliver Alvin-Wilson, Riona O’Connor, Rosie Day, Sabrina Wu, Shaun Dooley, Stacy Abalogun, Sunetra Sarker, Susan Brown and Syrus Lowe.

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I've never written a downer about a book yet, but....the performers and the terribly loud music were what made this a disappointment.
The STORYLINE was actually quite good and did get better as it went along. I would have really enjoyed it read as a book.
The presentation of it was crucially disjointed. I didn't realise that it was going to be an old fashioned play read; actually it reminded me of Murder Night a show my dad listened to on the radio 50yrs ago.
Im glad I didn't pay for the book as then, I would probably have been quite cross.

Sadly disappointing but good storyline...

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I never want to hear that horrid music again. Unnecessary.
Very mediocre story.
Too much crying

not great

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Hated the music, melodramatic and to much. Great actors and well scripted hard to stop listening!

Riveting plot

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A little confusing with characters but if you keep going it works out. Excellent sounds

A little confusing

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This book is recorded like a radio play with background audio accompaniment . Very entertaining this way, with different voice - actors easy to identify characters. However sometimes I felt that I needed visuals to orient myself.

Enjoyable

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The actors did a great job with the script but there were soooo many twists and turns that it felt like there was a lot of filling instead of substance.

Reminds me of a very dramatic radio play or The Archers

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at first I thought wow sounds interesting but no. way too much going on and way too many characters to keep track of i tried my best but i give up i have no idea who is who or what the story is about

very hard to follow

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Gets off to a reasonably promising start. Rapidly devolves into a fairly unbelievable mish mash of rubbish plot twists and unconvincing betrayals. The conclusion isn't worthy of a High School creative writing class failing grade. The acting cast is excellent - especially with such material - and were definitely worth 5 stars. Such a pleasure to listen to, utterly captivating and great production values. The overall production struggles a little with the irritating and excessive overuse of intro and outro music to each chapter. Although in fairness this may be because it was not originally produced as an audiobook. It wasn't my cup of tea, although ... I did listen to the end! Some of you will simply LOVE this no doubt. Good escapist froth along the lines of - but not much like (because it doesn't focus on romance) - a pauper's Bridgerton if that's what you're in the mood for.

Utterly pointless

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