
Strange New World
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Narrated by:
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Catrin Walker-Booth
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By:
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Vivian Shaw
"Vivian Shaw knocks it out of the park yet again. If you aren’t reading Dr. Greta Helsing, you’re missing out." —T. Kingfisher, New York Times bestselling author of What Moves the Dead
"Deeply compassionate and endlessly surprising, this series will steal your heart." —Grace D. Li, New York Times bestselling author of Portrait of a Thief
In this witty conclusion to a delightful fantasy series finds Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, facing the latest and strangest challenge of her career...accompanying an anxious angel and a sullen demon on a road trip across America.
After narrowly avoiding the end of the world, the leaders of Heaven and Hell are struggling to collaborate according to the terms of their new treaty—especially because angels and demons are, quite literally, allergic to each other. Seeking a solution, the powers that be decide to see if the allergy persists on Earth by sending an angel and demon on a research trip, first stop: New York City. And what better chaperone than Dr. Greta Helsing, who happens to owe Hell a few favors of her own?
But there’s unrest in New York’s monster underworld and Greta and her team are about to land in the middle of it. Something is off in Heaven and on Earth, and Greta will have to figure out just what that is if she hopes to protect those she loves most.
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Another delight
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Strange things are happening among the strange and unusual of New York City, and it might have something to do with the new treaty, and the old hostilities between Heaven and Hell.
I love the Greta Helsing books. They are always such a good time, and this one is no exception. I ended up getting the audiobook of this one, and giving it a listen as I loved the three previous audiobooks in the series. Catrin Walker-Booth narrates this one fantastically. I believe she is a different narrator from the first three books in the series, but honestly I didn't really notice. She did a great job!
Greta is such a great character. She handles even the strangest things with ease. I also love her relationship with Varney. There's little to no stress between them when Greta is getting calls from angels or demons, or suddenly needing to triage a whole bunch of nosferatu, or he's needing to go out to take care of his very specific diet.
All told, I liked this one. I didn't love it as much as the first three, however just having more of this world and these characters was exciting, so I give this one 4.5/5 stars!
Glad to have a new volume to listen to
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Meanwhile, the author, Vivian Shaw, what a gift to the planet she is. She has been crafting this series for years, and once you have listened to all the books, you'll understand why this isn't a crank-it-out-in-a-hurry series. These stories carry the characters forward, so you can feel your relationship with all of them growing, as you fall in love with their little quirks. But, the background of this series is world-wide. And the issues that are thrown at Greta range from conspiracies, to pieces of Creation running amuck, to the destruction of the time line, to the end of the earthly plane. There are ghouls, and vampires, and vampyres, and so many interesting, exotic non-human types of beings you've never heard of, and so many of them come to Greta's medical clinic for treatment, on Harley Street, no less! This is such a delightful fantasy world Vivian Shaw has crafted over the years. It is so easy to visualize in your mind and just hang out there as the stories unfold. Mummies needing re-wrapping, teething baby ghouls, a Medusa-snake-haired medical assistant, the delights just do not end in these stories. This series is such a delight. I truly, truly, hope you invest in this series, and make it a part of your read-once-a-year-list, like I have.
A captivating story with exquisite narration
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Just alright; inconsistent
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First of all, it jumps around a LOT, from heaven, to hell, to various locations in NYC and London, and to Transylvania. And we have different characters in each location, with different points of view. And there is a LOT of jumping, which made it hard to follow exactly what was happening, and hard to connect with the characters, because we spent so little time at each location. So it felt like the story moved in fits and starts.
Secondly, we’re still dealing with the repercussions of the war in heaven in book three, and the resultant rapprochement between heaven and hell, which was not my favorite part of book three. It gets a little too esoteric and philosophical for me. I much preferred when the plot focuses on Greta and the supernatural beings she treats as a doctor. Those are much more interesting.
And once again, like in book one, we have a weird Christian cult that is attacking supernatural creatures. It just felt like a retread of plots in previous books, with not a lot of new subject matter. There just wasn’t much NEW ground being covered here. There’s a bit of nice stuff at the end about knowing who you are, and being helped by friends, but that’s really the only thing that is unique to this book.
I also think there’s a gaping plot hole as to who was behind the initial attacks in London. That was never explained and that is a huge question that no one seemed to care about. The author really dropped the ball, there, imo.
So, overall, I’m a bit disappointed in this one. Maybe I’ll feel better about it after a few days, but right now, immediately after finishing it, I’m let down by this book, I’m sorry to say. It’s not BAD, but it’s just not the caliber of her previous books. Fans of the series will want to read it, and it won’t be a waste of time, but I don’t know that this is one I’ll repeatedly read, like the previous books in the series.
The narrator was pretty good, though she read out the initials JHVH instead of saying “Jehovah” or “Yahweh”, and at first I didn’t know what was being referenced that way! But otherwise she was good.
A bit disjointed and rambling
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Worth it
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An awesome addition to this series!
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Fantastic per usual
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Excellent from the start
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I missed the different monsters and the tension in the first few stories between expectation and monstrous reality. This just felt like a few ideas linked by a bunch of "get on with it, already!"
whimpering narrator detracted
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