Fellside

90% of this book is great. The story of Jess and why she ends up in prison and everything she goes through along the way is great. The surrounding characters are good, maybe a little shallow, but still colorful and interesting. The story line is really great. I was on the edge of my seat until almost the very end, really fascinated by where the story was going to go--I couldn't even guess as to how it would end or what would be revealed.
Then there was 10% of the book that was so trite, predictable, and simplistic that it distracted from what could have been great. It was the way different parts of the story "wrapped-up" and not just the ending, but a couple times throughout the story as well. The messy craziness of an all female prison with "voices" is the very beauty of the story, so when this author wraps things up in such a cliche, overly-neat way, it distracts from the essence of the story and almost ruins it.
The narration was also not-great. She didn't change her tone of voice ever. The male and female characters all sounded the same, which actually wasn't too much of a problem. What was worse is the "hero" and the villains (and in a female prison you get mean villains) all had the same voice, which was distracting from the action in the story.
I would recommend this book. The reason I read reviews, especially for a 17 hour long audio book is to set my expectations, so that's what I'm doing here, is maybe helping set expectations. It's good, it's entertaining, but not great.

A little fantasy, a heavy amount of realistic action, a suspenseful story and lilting prose captured my imagination and took me on a memorable journey. As always, this author captivated me with unusual situations and prose. The narration was lilting and understated. The story had nice surprises. I loved it. I want more.

I'm a huge fan of police procedurals, Fellside falls into my top 10 for non-police procedurals. Also enjoyed The Girl With Many Gifts.

The main character, Jess, can't really say why. All the characters are well drawn.

I think Finty Williams is great, great sense of timing, emotion, brings vivid images to mind, I also think has a special knack for doing child parts.

MR Carey has an amazing imagination, while both books are a little out of the norm they're perfectly believable.

Great story, great narration.

I found this book extremely disappointing- I did have high expectations since I've been looking forward to this release for months, but even considering that - I found this surprisingly long, boring, and loaded with filler- at least until the last two hours. I couldn't help but fast forward through much of it. What's most baffling to me is that this was written by the same person who produced the masterpiece "The Girl With All The Gifts"-which was probably the best audiobook I've listened to. Interested to see other reviews .

it was a great story with fantastic narration! It's orange is the new black with ghosts.