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Brilliant performance to captivating

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 24-03-25

I enjoyed listening to the retelling of Jason and the argonauts from the point of view of Medea and the narrator did an excellent job bringing each character to life.

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Brilliant Trilogy

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4 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 01-01-25

The whole of the three books captures imagination throughout and I would've or could've given it 5 stars across the board but the narrators should've been better prepared.

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Amazing story but better read

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4 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 28-12-24

This sequel was very well crafted and hardly a boring moment. The pleasure of lisening was however very painful again and I wonder why the narrator thought she had the ability to carry it off. It did her no favours as she failed to say anything not English correctly. The story was imaginative and took your minds to scenes and people struggling to live their lives under a tyranny that robs them of their heritage, worship and culture. Then to compound the tale of deprivation it is badly deliberately read,where the language spoken is laughable at best or simply insulting to the listeners. Please let me have a Russian with no understanding of English read Chaucer next then will I believe you respect the listener of African fiction.

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Something miss in pronounciation

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5 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 22-12-24

This has been an informative narrative on the Yoruba People. The context was balanced and certainly worth reading but I would recommend for Yorubas to read the book rather than the audio. The Narrator tried really hard. But as a speaker of Yoruba I found myself playing catchup because I was rephrasing the words in my head, as Yoruba words are very beautiful when said correctly

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Beautiful Story with imagery of Yoruba deities

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4 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 09-12-24

A well crafted book that it must have been beautiful to read as it livens imagination and anyone with the slightest knowledge of Yoruba would recognise the artistry in the writing. This was however ruined by the narrator who for an actor did no research on the pronunciations of the Yoruba names and words, which were murdered. I found her lack of preparation to say the words very distracting and no explanations were written about what she was trying to say at times. She might as well just say nah nah nah nah for all the meaning her words gave.
All that aside Tomi Adeyemi did a great job.

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Unnecessarily long

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2 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-12-24

I found this story interesting but very irritating with the social media tweets which was off putting as it was irritating with sways of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and abbreviations that excludes my generation not into the abbreviations. Chapter 75 with at least 12 minutes of tweets was just torture and because it was such babble, left me wondering how does this help. The narrator did very well to maintain an interest.

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Weird but I like the ending

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 21-06-24

Funnily, it's not often you get a writer that leaves your sense of justice and fairness in tatters. So this was to me a break from fairness that exists in 'real' time. The character description of her OCD with cleaning and her absolutely flakky sister was a good break for me. I listened in one sitting and on reflection she should write a sequel to give our shock a rest. Thoroughly enjoyed the non redeeming factors that it did not save Mohammed's job at the hospital nor the doctor from the unfortunate fate. It was pure simple escapism from my reality and expectation. Therefore, well done to Oyinkan Braithwaithe for being daring.

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Addiction to happy ever after !!!

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-06-24

The surrounding historical facts woven into the story was very interesting and it was of course very well written and read by Hattie Morahan. I am just surprised that given all that was happening around the Joubert family, they were more or less together in the end and wealthier. I guess that I just yearn for that story that leaves you to wonder and hope it MAY? or may not all work out in the end

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Entertaining listening

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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 28-05-24

The story of Bellarion in my opinion was certainly far more than romance as it was describe and which almost prevented me from listening. In fact any romance was suspected by the reader than inferred. It is more of a historical story of events in the 15th century in what we now know as Italy's principalities. I did not much care for the reader and by simply reducing his speed of reading made the words come more alive for me rather than losing myself in his attempt to pronounce Italian names and places.

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Emotionally revealing

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 18-05-24

Just finished this excellent read and the performances were also excellent. It covered the spectrum of awareness of racism on both sides. I very heartily applaud the author for giving time to hear and try to understand the spectrum and the injustices from institutionalised racism and otherwise. I hesitate though at the compulsion for happy endings as that is not the result in the majority of cases. Happy ending in cases like this, I find softens the harsh message that some readers may need to jolt them to really reflect.

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