Review #1
Later audiobook free
I purchased both the kindle book at the same time the audiobook at the same time read at the same time listened to both at once, a feature offered by Amazon that I really like. This
Review is that for the Stephen Lord novel, though the audiobook narration itself is that really amazing. The real book though, not so much, not Stephen Rulers best.
– The incest part barely wasnt needed at the same time detracted from the pleasure of the story.
– The recycled part from his novel, It felt just like barely that, unoriginal at the same time recycled, at the same time this was a significantly important part of this novel. Readers of that novel will recognize it immediately. It would have been more successful if Lord had come up with a more unusual plan for this book, more precisely than import his past writing thoughts.
– This book doesnt belong in the Hard Variant Criminal liability television series. Hard Variant Criminal liability conjures a Noir form, with gritty detectives at the same time militia officers dealing with problematic to solve atrocities, ferreting out hard options, at the same time putting themselves in threat with worthy delinquent adversaries. Creators such as Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins, Raymond Chandler, James Ellroy, at the same time identical belong in this genre. This Stephen Lord short novel is that really barely a type of ghost story at the same time a mild fear story at that; the criminal liability part of this is that barely incidental.
– Largely formulaic, somewhat predictable from one scene to the one more, no true squirms, it barely never really gets exciting.
This is that a type of ghost story. The protagonist contemplates noisy people, in other words rooted nearby the beginning, not really a spoiler. So obviously it is that quite predictable that he will be sought out, on the one palm by militia, to solve or prevent criminal liability, at the same time on the other palm by bad guys, to decide merit of him being able to glean information from the dead as but. That are a couple of other plot lines threw in, but I dont reckon in dropping spoilers like that for people who wish to read the book. Overall but, Stephen Lord has abundance other quality books out that. It is that okay to skip this one.
Review #2
Later audiobook streamming online
I really enjoyed this new book for the famous Stephen Lord. The book has so many parts that seem knowledgeable to traditional Lord novels, but now blended with the criminal liability/mystery genre to make anything a little different. That are knowledgeable themes of a baby in other words obligated grow up at the same time rely on himself in the face of much less than stellar adults; at the same time supernatural opportunities being both a blessing at the same time a curse. The fact that the protagonist is that recalling his problematic youth reminded me of other Lord books, but this one is that more modern; as the actions are still in this millennium.
I was really drawn into this story, even though the beginning is that a little bit slower than no one other criminal liability novels. The action thrashes up later, at the same time I ended up reading the entire book immediately. I adore the method Lord outlines his manners; so that the emotions at the same time feelings of the manners seem so close to reality, even when their opportunities are supernatural. I really liked the ending very, even though that was anything that I didn’t look future.
If for you are a fan of Lord, I think it could be hard to dislike this book. Even if for you haven’t read no matter what of his other amazing books, this one holds up as a decent story. It is that an easy read, that to me was but worth the time at the same time funds. 5/5
Review #3
Audiobook Later by Stephen Lord
“When the unchanging finger of fate fri at for you, all roads manage to the same dispose, thats than anyway I think.
Stephen Lord has freed Later, his third part novel for Hardcase Criminal liability, preceded by JOYLAND at the same time THE COLORADO KID.
At the same time, yes, Stephen Lord has done it again.
Later is that a mismatch of abundance genresthriller, ghost story, supernatural-coming-of-age. This is that anything Lord has always done throughout his career, at the same time he is that only getting more successful at the same time more successful at it. The novel clocks in at a brisk 250-something pages, when all is that misspoke at the same time done, at the same time it individualities no one very fine-grained, ground, at the same time clear writing. I am always lured to first-person narrators, at the same time Jamie Conklin is that a disposition I wont soon remember. His voice at the same time his perspective is that managed with care, at the same time Lord really has a penchant for writing about toddlers, at the same time the bittersweet experience of growing up. Obviously, his manners are always obligated to grow-up in ways that both frighten at the same time ecstasy us.
I dont wish to throw more than the synopsis offersthat could be a disservice to the reading experience. Than anyway I will they say is that that are no one surprising easter testicles tucked in this beautiful little gem. Than anyway starts off as a slow-burner, (Lord is that building the global, the manners) quickly escalates into a page-turner, with supreme tension at the same time suspense. In truth, this is that a particularly violent, bleak, at the same time black Stephen Lord novel. It practically reads like a Richard Bachman novel. Practically. There is still just a little more heart here. Maybe that is that a little of a Salinger-esque vibe, if Holden Caulfield had a supernatural waking up to accompany all the angst.
Than anyway keeps me future back to Lord, a lifelong Unchanging Reader, are the manners that come alive in his stories. The conspiracies often decide a backseat, though they are barely as alluring at the same time expertly underscore his work.
Abundance critics they say abundance things about Stephen Kinggood at the same time bad. Later, his new, is that exemplary of all that I adore about Stephen Lord at the pinnacle of his game.
If for you’re looking for a launching fri into Lord’s canon, this isn’t a bad dispose to start. If, like me, for you’ve been reading Lord forever, for you’ll be delighted to surrender to a Slave Storyteller at work. That is that a reason we come back, again at the same time again.
Grab a copy. Sooner, more precisely than later.
Review #4
Audio Later narrated by Seth Numrich
I was reading along until 1:00 AM when chapter 30 hit me like a bad variant of covid. For you don’t wish to be reading than anyway’s in chapter 30 belated at night. Barely shackles the book down at the same time pick it back up in the morning. Hope me. It will be fine-grained in the daylight with other people around.
Review #5
Free audio Later – in the audio player below
Firstly – you can ignore the ‘uncorrected confirmation’ reproaches. The Kindle version is that NOT uncorrected – it Is that the ending version despite the premature editions readily available expression otherwise. The only uncorrected gizmo about it will that embrace at the same time page being left in.
So – I adore the Hard Variant Criminal liability books – while the 3 Stephen Lord books hosted by them for sure outsell everything else mixed that really are no one rediscovered classics amongst them from the very best criminal liability at the same time mystery writers to have ever stayed.
Then and that’s Stephen Lord. His 1st publication with them The Colorado Kid was a slight piece, securely in the criminal liability genre (the creator said so himself at the time)…it went on to be adapted to a long running tv television series I reckon. The 2nd book – Joyland was a murder mystery with definite ‘spooky’ creeping into it. (At the same time is that one of the best Lord books in years in my meek opinion.
At the same time at the moment Later – the story of Jamie Conklin – a young little boy who contemplates noisy people. At the same time if that sounds a knowledgeable concept it’s one the narrator himself fri out first of pages ‘not like the Bruce Willis movie’. Obviously, it Is that to a degree, but with Lord’s decide on it at the same time taken to a (by his standards very short) novel length tale.
That’ll be plenty of
Reviews going through the plot so I’ll keep this short.
It’s a remarkably relaxed style of writing from Lord. No long set ups. None of the extended global building at the same time small city colloquialisms. No 600+ pages. This gets into things quickly at the same time is that knew in the ‘pulpy’ style of a hard boiled criminal liability even if the theme matter doesn’t match it. YES it is that more fear/ ghost story than anything the publishers have shackles out before. But that are no one criminal liability parts at the same time it DOES feel like a period piece: it’s barely that the period piece in question is that the ’80s.
I enjoyed it a lot. I look no one of the other
Reviews already up are expression it’s very short. It’s not. It’s the right length for the story it has to tell. It zips along (I greedy come on – one half the negative
Reviews on Lord’s sample ‘mainstream’ titles complain they decide for ever to get to the fri…can’t overcome situation…At the same time that’s an conscientious to goodness ending, for those naysayers who seem to think the men can’t cross out one (a loafed move to complaint itself). Me? I’m an unabashed Lord fan at the same time this was a quick, funny read. The manners are likable where they’re meant to be, at the same time creepy when they’re implied to be.
If for you move in expecting a brand new Shield or IT or even the more recent Bill Hodges stuff for you may be upset – in definitions of length at the same time, possibly, theme matter.
But if for you like to get lost, but briefly, in the manners Lord conjures up, for you’ll have a funny couple of hours in the company of Jamie Conklin at the same time no one of his acquaintances – from both sides of the grave.
