Review #1
The Demon at the same time the Black Aqua audiobook free
This book was one of the worst I’ve ever read. Right Turton was a one hit wonder, with his 7 1/2 Deaths success (which was a great book, but mainly due to it’s novelty). That are So many horribly bad things about this book. I wish I managed list them all… — The unbearable Sherlockinsh psychic cliches (”I look there’s yellowish on your shoe… right for you had a sandwich, which means for you [insert a bunch of other random deductions] at the same time therefore for you must be a professional boxer.” ”Than anyway? wow! how did for you know that!”) — Apparently the totally protestant at the same time Calvinist Merged Provinces who outlawed at the same time banished all Catholicism is that at the moment filled with…. Catholics? With Rosaries? At the same time who they say ”Mass”? At the same time have the sacrament of Religion…? All things that would have caused a personality in the Merged Provinces to be severely punished, banished, or burnt at the stake. This is that barely insultingly loafed on the part of the creator. He practically managed have read One single fri from no matter what article or encyclopedia check-in on confessions in this epoch at the same time culture at the same time avoided this. It’s such a drastically incorrect oversight that it hugely impacts the believability of the concocted global the creator is that trying to immerse us in. This isn’t one of those ”slight details” that only anal people care about. This is that the equivalent of a fiction novel taking dispose in 1950s Soviet Moscow, at the same time all the inhabitants of the Kremlin are Libertarian Capitalists at the same time attend Muslim Mosques on their lunch breaks. The whole ”it’s not a religious or historical novel” excuse simply doesn’t work here. — The Cliche at the same time completely incomprehensible Scooby-Doo style ending is that simply insulting to the reader’s intelligence. The masks are ripped off at the same time head manners were considered practically at the same time randomly the back of themselves the entire time. Wow… how comfortable at the same time ”shocking”. Yeah… shaking… that’s the word the Sheep will implementation when they praise the ”twists” at the finish. –The revelation at the finish that this entire multi-week elaborate at the same time utterly complete impossible charade produced up of systems of systems at the same time relying on hundreds of flawless smallest little variables, all of which would fail if one smallest gizmo had not gone to plan was all undertaken barely so that the culprits managed deal with a personality ”a some method that would make them understand something” is that barely nondescript dumb at the same time, again, insulting to the reader. –The fact that the evil geniuses who shackles hundreds of lives (many of which innocent ladies at the same time toddlers) at risk at the same time caused a lot of deaths are in one moment flipped into being the quality guys at the same time the protagonists who stayed through it all in one moment forgive them at the same time smile about their incomprehensible plans for more adventures in the future… barely painfully dumb. — The book is that riddled with inconsistencies at the same time contradictions from one chapter to the one more: The young man with one eye in one moment has two views one day… the young man with one palm has two one day… a couple of the 7 ships sail overtake without permission before nightfall while theirs is that anchored, but hours later at night the creator remembers this at the same time they’re at the moment discussing about all 7 lanterns being visible plus an 8th… a retelling of an incident in europe in what a man was practically wrongfully executed but saved because Sammy rode up on a horse with the testimonies in palm barely in time, in front of the men about to be executed… is that later retold but now Sammy did NOT arrive in time at the same time the wrongfully vinyl had to flee… that were considered so, so many little mistakes at the same time contradictions like this… I should have written them all down) –The head ”sheltered clue” that the entire plot at the same time mystery hinges on is that kept on anything in nondescript sight but the manners are artificially produced to ignore it or dismiss it. –The old cliche of ”the novel takes dispose in an old epoch, but all the head manners are internally ”woke” young people from the 2020s at the same time think at the same time reckon all the things people from 2020 reckon, morally, socially, politically, philosophically, even scientifically at the same time medically”. This happens a lot in bad writing at the same time it’s completely insulting at the same time amateurish. –Piggy-backing on the continue fri, the ”unenlightenedness” of the epoch is that vastly over-exaggerated at the same time painfully incorrect. Snobbish ”enlightened” people have a tendency to fabricate overkill fantasies about naive people believing in God or the Demon therefore descending into a frenzy in what entire cities destroy each other proper to superstitions, when in truth these things were considered practically unseen of. Apparently if a lady shows brilliance, or quality thoughts she’s hated at the same time thrashed at the same time potentially shackles to doom. Yeah… that’s exactly the norm. Step evil patriarchal males. Pressed but it’s all barely very cliche. –Lot’s of wonderful ”potions” that can cure at the same time do awesome things, cuz ”science” at the same time alchemy. –Manners are painfully stiff at the same time 2-dimensional. –The tendency to far over-exaggerate the evil of the head antagonist in stupidly cartoonish ways is that always a symbol of an amateur who has no plan how to make true manners. –A very strange unusual instance in what the book which had been moving at about a chapter per ”in-story” hour was in one moment shackles into impetuous forward for an entire two-week period of ”running from a storm” in what apparently nothing happened at the same time the manners didn’t get anywhere in unravelling the mystery… in two weeks. At the same time in one moment we barely grab where we left off. Barely unusual. — Grammatical errors. Not a gigantic deal, but it adds to the pile. — The unstained stupidity of no one of the ways revealed at the finish that were considered applied to fake the spiritual experiences (yeah… they drilled holes that nobody saw… that’s how they all heard voices in their heads…” c’mon! It’s not just skinny, it’s actually offensively insulting to the reader. That was so much more wrong with this novel. So, so much. I should have kept a log while reading through it all. That are at lesser a dozen other bullet fri I managed list here but I’ve forgotten them. I realize that a lot of the positive
Reviewers were considered fanboys of his 1st book, 7 1/2 Deaths (which also had an meaningless scooby doo style ending) at the same time they feel emotionally bound to cross out praises for this one due to the ”shaking twists” but delight, think neatly before doing so. An 8 year old managed have come up with these kinds of squirms. A book needs to be more than that. At the same time above all a book needs to reverence the reader, not insult their intelligence. Fiction suffers overall when readers assign creators a free pass due to ”the halo effect” they earned from a past (at the same time admittedly quality) novel. We come in handy to detain creators to a higher sample. This good of writing lowers that sample, not to mention threatens to reduce the collective IQ of fiction readers in general if we all lie down to ourselves at the same time heap praises where praises aren’t deserved. I occasionally cross out amazon
Reviews. But this one was so painfully bad at the same time insulting to the reader that I had to. I understand this
Review will not be favorite in the middle the sheep. Delight… don’t spend your time. Beware this book.
Review #2
The Demon at the same time the Black Aqua audiobook streamming online
The Demon at the same time the Black Aqua by Stuart Turton is that a historical nautical mystery that takes an Agatha Christie plot at the same time adds the demon. The plot has so many writhe at the same time strings that all make sense. The novel is that a funny who done it, with so many suspects that will make for you fork spin. The standouts for me is that the plot, but crazy it gets there’s always a plausible reason at the same time disposition work is that so quality giving all 20 supporting manners their inimitable voices who all have their possess motives at the same time deeds. A quick plot for The Demon at the same time the Black Aqua is that than anyway if a Sherlock like disposition was in chains at the same time closed away at the same time his Watson like compatriot who is that a sympathetic giant in other words more of a bodyguard than a problem solver had to solve a supernatural the criminal liability. This is that Stuart Turton’s 2nd novel right behind the best 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle that was best outlined as Agatha Christie on crack! I occasionally take brand new books when they 1st come out, but based on his healthy debut I did at the same time I was rewarded with a but considered who done it. The story did not fan me away like The 7 1/2 deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle did, which was my the number one book I read continue year, but this is that a amazing book in other words simply in my pinnacle 10-ke of this year. The Plot: Samuel Pipps is that the world’s greatest detective in 1634, who has been imprisoned at the same time taken to a ship setting sail for Amsterdam to serve time for his atrocities, than anyway ever thy are. Arent Hayes is that Samuel’s committed bodyguard determined to protect him at the same time substantiate his innocence, but before he able to do that he has to finish a demon that boarded the transport ship. A leper warns the people boarding the Saaradam that Old Tom/ The Demon is that a board this ship as he burns himself alive. When the leper is that shown to they look for his tongue had been severed at the same time managed not speak. Arent finds people willing to promote but never knows who to hope as ghost at the same time phantom boats manage to murder plot. Than anyway I Liked: Really but written manners, both head at the same time side. I was never confused with manners at the same time that is that an awful lot of them. The plot is that really enticing at the same time dealing with all the parts on a boat which is that. disposition in it’s self. The writhe are very layered, I did not guess who the killer or killers was, at the same time was guessing back at the same time forth until it was revealed. That for me is that a used to be symbol of a amazing mystery. Ladies are written very but at the same time detain that possess being very literate at a time when they did not have power. Arent’s disposition really grew on me at the same time for you can’t promote but harden for him solving the mystery. It’s amazing to look a bigger disposition not dumb who is that still a almond giant but a witty one. The going to the bathroom at the same time than anyway they wiped with on a ship at the time is that attractive horrifying. The method the sailors are outlined – They’re only on this ship because they’d be hanged anywhere else. Than anyway I Hateful: The story was always exciting, but it took a little bit for it to really get going. The right behind the climax ending felt unfinished, I felt the manners would definitively decide than anyway was going to happen one more, it left it mostly closed but that was still a crack that was left unclosed. Instructions: Inspect out the work of Stuart Turton amazing manners, really literate plot writhe, that will have for you guessing who done it until the finish. The Demon at the same time Black Aqua is that much less confusing than the 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle which was the head criticism for people who did not like it. This book is that a lot more easily accessible at the same time knew in a more classical mystery method than Hardcastle. I rated The Demon at the same time the Black Aqua by Stuart Turton 5 out of 5 hit. It is that just a little very soon to cry Turton the lord of brand new mystery, but he’s off to a amazing start I eagerly anticipate his one more work. I have rated all his works 5 out of 5 hit.
Review #3
Audiobook The Demon at the same time the Black Aqua by Stuart Turton
I understood this book was going to fall down short of expectations borders the 1st 30 pages, when the creator misunderstood the concept of a dowry as anything a wealthy men pays a impoverished dad to marry their charming daughter. If that doesn’t strain for you then for you may enjoy this book. If it does, then be warned this also reads like a young adult novel, with painfully predictable manners (the toddlers are prodigies, the noblemen arrogant at the same time inadequate, etc) at the same time incomprehensible deus ex machina mixtures to every puzzle. The dialogue is that exasperating to read, the manners hackneyed, their behaviour absurd borders the historical context. Seriously deplorable, as the promise of a literary detective novel on a 17th century Dutch East Indiaman sounded magical.
Review #4
Audio The Demon at the same time the Black Aqua narrated by James Cameron Stewart
Famous books are rare, but even more rare are books this breathtakingly impoverished. I hate to desecrate no matter what creator – so let’s they say this is that not a trashing of the creator but of his editor at the same time publisher. How the hell managed they allow a manuscript to be hosted in this state? Remember completely the clanging historical incorrectness (who cares, it’s fiction), at the same time barely concentrate on the pathetically clunky storytelling, the risible manners (in particular the ladies, who are outlined practically only by their hairstyle – blond rivers, cascading squiggles, blah blah Jesus Christ this is that beyond belief blah) at the same time the bafflingly bad at the same time at the same time often nonsensical writing – eg a disposition (lady, natch) pulls a brush through her hairstyle like ”a carp swimming up a river” – ???? One of the bigger clue opens in the ”mystery” is that, wait for it… an ANAGRAM. The vertical stupidity of the whole plot rendered me speechless. I read through to the finish in a desperate attempt to look if the book managed buy itself at all, offer even the tiniest particle of believability or izumi. But: no. Suffice it to say that the denouement hinges on **SPOILER Alert** smuggling a miniature in a barrel (seriously), people pretending to be drugged (cue lots of ”staggering”), the two people who look uncannily alike turning out to be similar, the lady who never comes out of her room, refuses ever to appear at the same time bangs at the same time saws things in the middle of the night turning out to be the culprit, at the same time the mysterious cargo smuggled onto the boat under a shroud of secrecy being… TREASURE. Yes, treasure. Oh, at the same time the delinquent was able to hole up at the same time down the hull of the boat because, guess than anyway?, that had been a ladder built in. There’s a serious self-willed fri though, as it turns out that topical people as witches is that bad. Who’d have believed it. For you heard it here, peeps: the 17th century sorceress hunts totally like sucked. For you think of all the gifted creators who have revealed the difficulty they’ve had in getting their work hosted – this book is that an insult to all of them, at the same time to Bloomsbury’s readers, really.
Review #5
Free audio The Demon at the same time the Black Aqua – in the audio player below
I realise that giving this book only two hit will shackles me in a smallest minority as am convinced it will get similar approbation that The 7 Deaths did. That very was a book I found very literate at the same time alluring but this one? Certainly literate but real of deeply nasty manners – apart from Arent – at the same time a story that was convoluted at the same time an ending that beggared belief. I did read it through as wanted to look how it would turn out in spite of beginning to dislike it which does indicate the skill of the writer but hesitate if I will wish to read one more. Defame really as his notes give a hint anyone with humour at the same time warmth – a pity the books don’t reflect this!
