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Company Town
- Narrated by: Cecelia Kim
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Company Town
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Publisher's Summary
They call it Company Town - a city-size oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd.
Hwa is of the few people in her community (which constitutes the whole rig) to forgo bioengineered enhancements. As such, she's the last truly organic person left on the rig - making her doubly an outsider as well as a neglected daughter and bodyguard extraordinaire. Still, her expertise in the arts of self-defense and her record as a fighter mean that her services are yet in high demand. When the youngest Lynch needs training and protection, the family turns to Hwa. But can even she protect against increasingly intense death threats seemingly coming from another timeline?
Meanwhile, a series of interconnected murders threatens the city's stability and heightens the unease of a rig turning over. All signs point to a nearly invisible serial killer, but all of the murders seem to lead right back to Hwa's front door. Company Town has never been the safest place to be - but now the danger is personal.
A brilliant, twisted mystery, as one woman must evaluate saving the people of a town that can't be saved or saving herself.
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- Brown Guy
- 2019-04-09
Glad I tried this one
Interesting and fast paced. A bit of mystery and a bit of near-future sci-fi kept me entertained. Whatever the audiobook equivalent of a page turner is, this is it.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Sarah
- 2018-07-13
Narrator ruins it
The newfoundland accent that the narrator proports to have is garbage and really takes you out of the book having to hear it
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- Pearl
- 2018-04-16
great!
really loved this book! great character development and a fun fresh story. will be listening to more of this author!
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- Jessica Harris
- 2018-06-13
Enjoyed the story but didn't love the reader
I enjoyed the story itself (and not just because as Canadians we get excited when something is actually set in our cities!), they way it took the 'company town' of history and throwing in an interesting technological future. But I wish the reader had done more to capture the cadence of Newfoundland speech - she didn't even need to do a full accent, just get a sense of the rhythm and flow. Her rather flat reading made the slang or sections written with dialect just sound peculiar, with none of the music of the east coast.
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- Jocelyn Beaudet
- 2018-04-06
Great, but slow pacing at first
It took a while for me to get into it, but I warmed up to it after the first few chapters. Overall really solid.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2018-07-15
Interesting tech, but a bit disorienting
The book had an interesting setting and premise, but I found some of plot elements clumsy and confusing. A body guard who can have stress-induced seizures might be good enough for a sex worker on an oil rig, but how could they be the pick for the son of a wealthy industrialist? Newfie accent was not handled well by the narrator. Still worth a read in my opinion for the world created by the author. Compelling descriptions of how tech has melded with biomechanics. A very human protaganist in a not-quite-human world.
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- clevrgrl
- 2018-05-05
meh
I was engaged at first, but was constantly distracted by the Narrator. The book would announce that Hwa is reverting back to her thick Newfoundlander accent, but then there would be a perfectly annunciated "aye b'y" with no accent. I also feel that there was a jumping of the shark in the story. *shrugs*
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- Leila
- 2018-05-27
Unnecessary language plus hollow dialogues
The story was interesting if a little hard to grasp just what was supposed to be going on, which is a lot: altered humans, time travel, cyborgs and conspiracies within conspiracies, slow to start & I never did finish, just felt like the Author wanted to keep throwing something new in without actually completing the idea or have it support the rest. A lot of unnecessary profanity, at times it just didn't even seem to fit, just thrown in for shock value? What's the point? It didn't add anything to the story or to the characters. Very interesting concept just could have been executed better.
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- Holly
- 2019-06-20
Very poor narration
I'm with the other readers; the narrator really butchers this novel. She doesn't even try to affect the musical cadence of a thick Newfoundland accent. It wouldn't matter so much if the slang and local dialect weren't written in to the dialogue, but it is. It's like listening to Beloved read by a white woman from Minnesota.
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