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petra_reads's review against another edition
5.0
My original Collecting Cooper audiobook review and many others can be found at Audiobook Reviewer.
So I rated [b:Cemetery Lake|16130626|Cemetery Lake (Theodore Tate, #1)|Paul Cleave|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1364805547s/16130626.jpg|3275292], the first Theodore Tate book, 5-stars. Collecting Cooper was even better; I need a 6-star rating!
Paul Cleave’s black humor is back in the second installment of the Theodore Tate series and I love it. This one starts with Tate’s release from prison several months after the events of Cemetery Lake. Tate’s lawyer Donovan Green is asking him for help to find his daughter Emma who has disappeared. Yeah, this is the girl Tate nearly killed in Cemetery Lake, so her father thinks Tate owes him a favor. At the same time, Detective Schroder asks Tate to take a look at the Melissa X file. That’s the rather sadistic girl who featured in [b:The Cleaner|13547335|The Cleaner (Cleaner, #1)|Paul Cleave|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1342123867s/13547335.jpg|1680584].
So while all of Cleave’s books can be read as standalones, the same characters keep turning up in different books. The more of his books I read, the more I appreciate how clever the entire Christchurch Noir Crime series is. But you are definitely left with the feeling that Christchurch is the world’s serial killer city and pretty bleak.
There are several story lines to follow that are skillfully connected and lead to a very satisfying end. There was one major continuity issue though where Tate actually mentioned the name of the person they were after before he could have possibly known it.
Written from multiple perspectives, the listener/reader spends a lot of time inside the mind of a young man with mental health issues. Cleave never preaches but very cleverly raises awareness of a mental health system with serious faults that leaves former patients with a lack of suitable support. Cleave is brilliant at creating characters that are impossible to typify as purely evil, totally innocent or 100% good. They all have little layers of everything in them and you end up feeling sorry for them one minute and then hating them the next.
Collecting Cooper is a fantastic, fast-paced psychological thriller that is dark and in parts shocking. Cat lovers beware, there’s some unpleasant stuff I wish I could have avoided listening to.
The narration by Paul Ansdell was very good again. He was excellent at portraying Adrian, a young man of simple mind, and his normal narration voice is very pleasant to listen to as well. A great fit for Tate’s first person perspective. There were no issues with the quality of the production.
I’m looking forward to the next in the series when it becomes available on audio and hope we’ll see more of Emma as she could turn into quite a kickass heroine.
Highly recommended for fans of witty and dark psychological thrillers!
Audiobook provided for review by the audiobookreviewer.com
So I rated [b:Cemetery Lake|16130626|Cemetery Lake (Theodore Tate, #1)|Paul Cleave|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1364805547s/16130626.jpg|3275292], the first Theodore Tate book, 5-stars. Collecting Cooper was even better; I need a 6-star rating!
Paul Cleave’s black humor is back in the second installment of the Theodore Tate series and I love it. This one starts with Tate’s release from prison several months after the events of Cemetery Lake. Tate’s lawyer Donovan Green is asking him for help to find his daughter Emma who has disappeared. Yeah, this is the girl Tate nearly killed in Cemetery Lake, so her father thinks Tate owes him a favor. At the same time, Detective Schroder asks Tate to take a look at the Melissa X file. That’s the rather sadistic girl who featured in [b:The Cleaner|13547335|The Cleaner (Cleaner, #1)|Paul Cleave|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1342123867s/13547335.jpg|1680584].
So while all of Cleave’s books can be read as standalones, the same characters keep turning up in different books. The more of his books I read, the more I appreciate how clever the entire Christchurch Noir Crime series is. But you are definitely left with the feeling that Christchurch is the world’s serial killer city and pretty bleak.
There are several story lines to follow that are skillfully connected and lead to a very satisfying end. There was one major continuity issue though where Tate actually mentioned the name of the person they were after before he could have possibly known it.
Written from multiple perspectives, the listener/reader spends a lot of time inside the mind of a young man with mental health issues. Cleave never preaches but very cleverly raises awareness of a mental health system with serious faults that leaves former patients with a lack of suitable support. Cleave is brilliant at creating characters that are impossible to typify as purely evil, totally innocent or 100% good. They all have little layers of everything in them and you end up feeling sorry for them one minute and then hating them the next.
Collecting Cooper is a fantastic, fast-paced psychological thriller that is dark and in parts shocking. Cat lovers beware, there’s some unpleasant stuff I wish I could have avoided listening to.
The narration by Paul Ansdell was very good again. He was excellent at portraying Adrian, a young man of simple mind, and his normal narration voice is very pleasant to listen to as well. A great fit for Tate’s first person perspective. There were no issues with the quality of the production.
I’m looking forward to the next in the series when it becomes available on audio and hope we’ll see more of Emma as she could turn into quite a kickass heroine.
Highly recommended for fans of witty and dark psychological thrillers!
Audiobook provided for review by the audiobookreviewer.com
strong_extraordinary_dreams's review against another edition
2.0
A simple thriller-whodunnit that would be ok if consumed in a couple of days. Unfortunately I read it translated into a foreign language that I am learning ... so I had to ponder over it for TWO MONTHS. AAaaaarrgggh.
A throw-away, ok if you've got nothing else to read.
A throw-away, ok if you've got nothing else to read.
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