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  • Breaking the Dark

  • A Jessica Jones Marvel Crime Novel
  • By: Lisa Jewell
  • Narrated by: Helen Laser
  • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (70 ratings)

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Breaking the Dark

By: Lisa Jewell
Narrated by: Helen Laser
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Summary

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Breaking the Dark, the first book in the brand-new Marvel Crime series, introduces fans to a grittier, street-level side of the Marvel Universe, and will continue with original novels featuring fan-favourite characters like Luke Cage, written by S.A. Cosby, and Daredevil, written by Alex Segura.

Meet Jessica Jones: a private investigator and retired super hero based out of Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, who goes from job to job as a hard living, rough talking, loner.

And then a wealthy Upper East Side woman pays her a visit. Amber Randall is concerned about her twin sixteen-year-olds, Lark and Fox, who have acted and looked very different since they returned from spending the summer with their British father in the UK. She tells Jessica that her children have unnaturally perfect skin for teenagers and have lost all the tics and habits that made them who they were. They are not Lark and Fox, she tells Jessica. Something has happened to them.

To find out more, Jessica travels to Essex to talk to their father and once there meets Belle who is living a curiously isolated existence in a run-down farmhouse with her guardian Debra. Jessica knows that Lark and Fox had spent the summer with Belle—but can this unworldly teenager really be responsible for Lark and Fox's new personas?

Jessica soon discovers that, behind Belle and Debra, evil geniuses are playing a dangerous game with technology in order to make the world a "better place", not caring who gets hurt, maimed or even killed in the process. Can Jessica stop them from wreaking destruction on a whole generation of young people?

Nothing is certain in Lisa Jewell's gripping and most imaginative novel yet.

The pace doesn’t let up, the characters never once slip. Tricksy, endlessly interesting and pure entertainment, don’t miss this one.' Gillian McAllister
‘Fresh, lively, insightful—and the action scenes hit like a chop. A really cracking story.' AJ Finn
Classic Lisa Jewell with an amazing twist!’ Jenny Colgan
'Reveals the depth and complexity of one of the most fascinating and indomitable characters in the Marvel canon.' S. A. Cosby

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Bizarre

Jewell is a brilliant author - usually delivering high drama in domestic situations. So this is a real departure - great concept but trying to hang part of the story on a very famous film franchise was unnecessary. Story would still have worked without it. A real suspension of belief story but largely enjoyable.
Afraid the narrator clinched the average ratings. Some spectacular mispronunciations and cliched attempts at English accents. Looks like first in a series. Last for me

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it was ok

I didn't realise because I didn't look that it was a marvel story. the narrator needs to brush up on her British accents.

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Very different style

I wasn’t so keen on this book. I’m not really into marvel characters I prefer Lisa’s other books

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True to character

I loved the way it stayed true to the character of Jessica Jones, whilst applying its own twist on the story of Jessica and Luke

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Fairly good

Not as good as Lisa Jewells other books, not as many twists as usual, and a little dull in comparison with her other work.

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Gripping

It’s a little slow to start, but once the mystery fully develops you find yourself hooked on every word

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Great fun

A highly entertaining listen. Jessica Jones is a wonderful lead. Don’t be put off by the Marvel’ tag. I know very little, but I still enjoyed the downbeat superhero jaunt. Even more entertaining were mispronunciations by the narrator. Otherwise, it was a very smooth listen.

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Jessica is back!

I loved the TV series of Jessica Jones, so I enjoyed having more in this book. I see it has mixed reviews. It’s true that it isn’t Lisa’s usual fare, but it’s a really good listen. The characters are well drawn and the story well written as we’d expect from her.

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Enjoyable in the main

My fourth Lisa Jewell book, really enjoy her as a storyteller. This book was enjoyable enough but my least favourite of the four.
I didn’t find the reader easy on the ear to begin with, British accents were iffy.
I wasn’t expecting a far fetched supernatural element from the author. Not my thing but still sort of liked it

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Entertaining listen

I really enjoyed this. Although there is a departure into super hero territory, there isn’t actually much super heroing going on and it has all the author’s usual page turning style. If you can get past the narrators inability to do anything other than somewhat shaky posh, British accents that are completely inappropriate for most of the characters then it’s a fun listen.

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