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  • What Abigail Did That Summer

  • By: Ben Aaronovitch
  • Narrated by: Shvorne Marks
  • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (228 ratings)

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What Abigail Did That Summer

By: Ben Aaronovitch
Narrated by: Shvorne Marks
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Publisher's Summary

The new Rivers of London novella, from Sunday Times number one best-selling author Ben Aaronovitch.

Ghost hunter, fox whisperer, troublemaker.

It is the summer of 2013, and Abigail Kamara has been left to her own devices. This might, by those who know her, be considered a mistake. While her cousin, police constable and apprentice wizard Peter Grant, is off in the sticks, chasing unicorns, Abigail is chasing her own mystery. Teenagers around Hampstead Heath have been going missing but before the police can get fully engaged, the teens return home - unharmed but vague about where they've been.

Aided only by her new friend Simon, her knowledge that magic is real, and a posse of talking foxes that think they're spies, Abigail must venture into the wilds of Hampstead to discover who is luring the teenagers and more importantly - why?

©2021 Ben Aaronovitch (P)2021 Orion Publishing Group

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Not the right performer

It’s possible that I wound have enjoyed the story more if someone more skilled at the character voices was reading. It sounded like the reader had zero familiarity with the way that Abigail and the foxes have been voiced previously, and indeed are described as sounding in other books. There was very little differentiation between characters. Every character was a variation on a high pitched posh, generic British accent. A WORLD away from the way that Abigail and foxes are written as speaking. It was a constant low key irritation.

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Kid's story barely holds the line

There are moments in this novella, but very few. Quite frankly, it is a children's novel. The plot has plenty of Ben's great imagination behind it. However, the read is hard work, as the key characters are all presented as Disney-esque kids animation voices, and as such, get annoying very quickly. Particularly the foxes, who KHS originally presented as streetwise Londoners, but here Shvorne pitches them straight out of 'Frozen'. KBH's short and really unnecessary inserts are hard to decipher (strangely distorting the Professor's original voice) and plot-wise, pointless. Here's to the next serious Peter Grant story with exploding heads and no annoying kids...please!

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Talking Foxes

Great to catch up with Abigail and learn what the deal was with the talking foxes... I always enjoy the Rivers of London novellas and this was no exception. Probably not recommended for someone who hasn't read at least one of the main series, though, because too little is explained. That's fine, because why would Abigail explain what she knows perfectly well? Great fun, as ever.

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Rubbish

Not what I expected from Ben Aaronovitch

Every one of his past books are 100% and can be reread over and over .

This book as I I say, is rubbish.

Not the narration ,but the story .
I would like my money back please Mr Bazos

After struggling through a few of the chapters, it makes me more confident about writing a book myself. 🙄

Lost Me Ben

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A nice side story

A nice novella from Abigail's point of view to fill in some of the gaps eluded to in the main 'Rivers of London' novels. Obviously Peter doesn't know all these details since he was gallivanting in the English countryside while Abigail was solving her own mysteries and developing her own contacts in both the Demi-monde and the mundane world.

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Neat sideline

Cute and quirky sideline story that allows a glimpse into what makes one of the side kicks so cool! I liked it a lot x

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Love the narrative but story was hard to catch

I love the Rivers of London series so thought to try this book. Great concept and narrative but I felt there was some gaps in explaining the house aspect. Audible and Belinda recording have done a wonderful job again.

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Unexpected and wonderful

I wasn’t sure I would like it but I really really like it! Fantastic narration too. I want more!

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Adequate

Not up to his usual standard. Expected a children's book, but was too adult for that but too basic for an adult book. As always, performance was superb. Looking forward to a proper Peter Grant next.

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excellent rivers book and made for audio

this worked very well as an audio book. Ben's first ya book? for all ages.

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