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Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me an advanced copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.
The man who fell from the sky is about financier Alfred Loewenstein who fell out of an airplane and died at the height (pardon the pun) of his wealth and power. No one saw him fall/stumble/jump out of his private plane, but yet he was gone.
William Norris got a tip about this wild character and thus began an obsession into figuring out everything about Loewenstein himself, and specifically about the circumstances of his death.
I enjoyed how the author inserted himself into the story and into his thought process of what could have happened in that plane. The story was gripping and I was guessing throughout the whole book about what on earth could have happened. I'm majorly impressed with William Norris' ability to make me care so much about something that happened 100 years ago.
All that said, I do have 2 gripes:
1. The narrator for this title did a lot of accents-- Cockney, British posh, old lady, French, Belgian, etc. None of them was particularly good? And they were overall very distracting. I wish he would have just read those in his normal voice.
2. Some of the stock exchanges, business buyouts, and commercial espionage plots were spelled out with really intense and excruciating detail. I think each of these little dramas could have been shortened and simplified in order to keep things from getting too in the weeds. (and boring) I understand that some of this was needed in order for us to know who the major players and suspects were.... but I did start to lose some interest when we had been listening to stock talk for 20 minutes.
Overall, I would recommend this to readers who enjoy a good mystery and maybe specifically those who have a special interest in the time period right before the stock crash of 1929.
The man who fell from the sky is about financier Alfred Loewenstein who fell out of an airplane and died at the height (pardon the pun) of his wealth and power. No one saw him fall/stumble/jump out of his private plane, but yet he was gone.
William Norris got a tip about this wild character and thus began an obsession into figuring out everything about Loewenstein himself, and specifically about the circumstances of his death.
I enjoyed how the author inserted himself into the story and into his thought process of what could have happened in that plane. The story was gripping and I was guessing throughout the whole book about what on earth could have happened. I'm majorly impressed with William Norris' ability to make me care so much about something that happened 100 years ago.
All that said, I do have 2 gripes:
1. The narrator for this title did a lot of accents-- Cockney, British posh, old lady, French, Belgian, etc. None of them was particularly good? And they were overall very distracting. I wish he would have just read those in his normal voice.
2. Some of the stock exchanges, business buyouts, and commercial espionage plots were spelled out with really intense and excruciating detail. I think each of these little dramas could have been shortened and simplified in order to keep things from getting too in the weeds. (and boring) I understand that some of this was needed in order for us to know who the major players and suspects were.... but I did start to lose some interest when we had been listening to stock talk for 20 minutes.
Overall, I would recommend this to readers who enjoy a good mystery and maybe specifically those who have a special interest in the time period right before the stock crash of 1929.