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Dark Echo

By: F G Cottam
Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
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About this listen

 Dark Echo is an unlucky boat. Despite this knowledge, Martin Stannard falls under her spell and prepares to sail her across the Atlantic with his father. But his lover, Suzanne, is uneasy and begins exploring the yacht's past.

What she finds is terrifying. Dark Echo isn't just unlucky, it's evil. It was built for Harry Spalding, a soldier and sorcerer who committed suicide yet still casts his malevolent spell nearly a century after his death.

©2009 F.G. Cottam (P)2009 Oakhill Publishing Ltd Thriller & Suspense Exciting Scary

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Critic reviews

"[W]hile F. G. Cottam's complex, tautly atmospheric thriller delivers plenty of chills, its principal characters are pleasingly human." ( Daily Mail)
"It's all ghostly hokum, of course, but jolly good hokum." ( Guardian)
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I have just finished listening this book and thoroughly enjoyed it - so much so that I did not want the book to end. A proper ghost story with good characters and good ghosts!

fantastic listen- a proper ghost book

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Would you consider the audio edition of Dark Echo to be better than the print version?

As I haven't read the print version, I can't say.

What did you like best about this story?

Even though it was obviously a supernatural story, I felt the characters we're believable enough to keep me interested. I wanted to find out how it ended and found it quite gripping.

What does Gareth Armstrong bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

I'm not sure I can answer that because I love reading but at the moment prefer listening. He did a really good job though. I think you always get more from reading a book as you imbue the characters with your own imagination.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Not especially. I just enjoyed the story.

Any additional comments?

Would recommend if you like this sort of story.

Good story

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Great performance and story line that I couldn't stop listening to end. Would highly recommend.

Fantastic storyline and performance

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Another fine tale from FG Cottam. As with his other works, the supernatural elements are set within a normal modern day lives of the protagonists. I particularly liked the way the author places a few hints about the fate of the characters well before the story is concluded.

I liked Gareth Armstrong's narration.

Good solid yarn

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My headline says it all I think. There were times I wanted the pace to quicken and the story to develop. The end was somewhat predictable and felt rushed too me, like the whole book had rewarded you with about 5 minutes of 'ending'. some questions also unanswered which I dislike in storytelling. Narration good.

Frustrating slow pace...but overall rewarding

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I enjoyed this book but I thought the ending came in a bit of a rush at the end

The narrator has a pleasant voice and he does move the story along at a fair old pace. I had no problem with his accents but I do agree with one of the other reviewersthat his delivery could have been better. He seemed to miss pauses that needed to be in a story telling ie when you change tempo or persons. As i said at the beginning the end felt very rushed as if the author was trying to cram everything in at once to tie up all the loose ends I also felt that the author had planned a different ending only to change his mind nearer the end of the story.Having said all that I did enjoy it and had finished listening to it in a couple of days where as I am still going back to other books I have downloaded !

Good but not great

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Love this writer's creepy novels. They revolve around well drawn characters, have a depth of background, and they're atmospheric.

Another great ghost story by F G Cottam (& co)

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Gareth Armstrong is one of those readers that makes you laugh - but doesn't necessarily mean to. He reads at a fair old clip, misjudges the pitch of sentences so that unnatural emphases get added to certain phrases (which he then gamely rescues by suddenly dropping his pitch to 'seamlessly' retrieve the situation) and then exacerbates a relatively poor show by actually misreading words to often comic effect. For example: 'he suffered from a congenial heart disease'. I'm guessing this should have been 'congenital' as I know of no heart diseases which are particularly congenial. Another corker was 'she retrieved the bag that compromised her luggage' - again, I'm thinking that should have been 'comprised'. I'm blaming the reader because I can't believe that an author and numerous subs and editors would let such sloppy prose through. However, F G Cottom is so horribly verbose, maybe they got so far and just thought 'sod it.'

Basically, a fairly bad novel and read by someone who thinks that Yorkshire, Cumbria and Lancashire all have the same, slightly retarded-sounding, accent. Grating - avoid unless you have a great admiration for hammy acting and a fondness for crappy prose.

Not good.

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