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A review by marilynw
Broadchurch by Erin Kelly
4.0
My husband and I watched the series Broadchurch and had to use closed caption because we could barely understand a word anyone was saying, especially the character that David Tennant played. I'm a Texan and don't seem to handle Irish accents well or very fast speaking speed. (Correction: David Tennant is Scottish, another accent I need to work on. Thanks for the correction Alison). Even with the closed caption, I felt like I missed a lot of what the characters were saying, because the closed caption apparently didn't understand some of the dialogue either. :-)
For this reason I borrowed the book from the library. It served the purpose of allowing me to know what was being said in the TV program and allowing me to catch things I had missed by watching the show. The book basically was the same as the program and I can't really say how I would have felt about it if I hadn't already seen the program but I wonder if I would have liked it less. I could picture the people and the places because I'd seen them on TV and I'm not sure there was enough description to allow me to picture everything adequately without having seen the series. I may look into more Erin Kelly books that aren't based on a TV series, to see how I like her writing style, just based on the book.
Published September 16th 2014 by Minotaur Books
For this reason I borrowed the book from the library. It served the purpose of allowing me to know what was being said in the TV program and allowing me to catch things I had missed by watching the show. The book basically was the same as the program and I can't really say how I would have felt about it if I hadn't already seen the program but I wonder if I would have liked it less. I could picture the people and the places because I'd seen them on TV and I'm not sure there was enough description to allow me to picture everything adequately without having seen the series. I may look into more Erin Kelly books that aren't based on a TV series, to see how I like her writing style, just based on the book.
Published September 16th 2014 by Minotaur Books