Summary

New to the job and with everything to prove, Crown Prosecution Service lawyer Eve Wren is working on the biggest UK trial in decades. The first book in the thrilling Eve Wren series.

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7.20.2025

More Intrigue, Levi?

Chapters 7 thru 10

Still just ok. I switched to a different book the past few nights as I just wasn’t that interested in diving back into this one. It’s not bad, it’s just not holding my attention as much of some others even with Moira doing the epic job she always does. As I mentioned previously, legal/courtroom books are just not that interesting to me and this one barely hasn’t gotten into the courtroom stuff. It’s just giving you a lot of back and forth perspectives of the survivors and only. Out of 10 chapters, our main characte Eve Wren has only been featured in 5.

The motivations of psychopaths are the least interesting subject for me as you know if you’ve been following my Jekyll and Hyde video series or podcast, so the fact that this cult leader just hates celebrities and movie stars so wants to kill them is just … so boring. “I hate rich people and I hate media that celebrates them so let’s blow them up.” Really?

What will keep me really interested is how “intriguing” the story becomes, that meaning, how much the story will surprise me or entice me to care about how things all turn out.

Story this session: 3.0 out of 5.0 stars3.0
Narration: 5.0 out of 5.0 stars5.0

7.17.2025

New Author and New Series

Chapters 1 thru 7

I am new to books in the legal/lawyer genre. I primarily read police procedurals and sometimes enjoy psychological thrillers. I have never read any John Grisham books – though I have seen movies that were adapted from his books. What’s weird is I like movies focused on legal mysteries and courtroom dramas. Speaking of Grisham, two of my absolute favorite films are The Client and Runaway Jury which I only just now realized are based on books by him.

I think I was always of the thought that reading a book about legal proceedings or legal mysteries wouldn’t be as interesting as watching movies about them given how dramatic and exciting a well films court scene can be. I couldn’t imagine (well I can’t anyway, thanks aphantasia) reading 12 Angry Men or The Pelican Brief or A Few Good Men, I just think I’d be missing a lot of what makes these kinds of stories so amazing; being a witness to them. Aphantasia makes it hard to connect to just words on a page as I have no internal dialogue and no ability to picture anything I haven’t seen before.

When I picked The Seven it was based – as almost every book decision I make is – solely on who was narrating it. I’ve been listening to several books narrated by Moira Quirk and I am absolutely in love with her voice and the characters she creates.

I don’t read descriptions or plot summaries when I buy a book, I only care about who is reading it. Imagine my surprise to find out The Seven is in a genre I usually skip.

I’m not a fan of books that jump between different characters and perspectives. Like one chapter is from one characters POV, the next chapter is from the villians POV, the next is from someone elses etc. This book does that and also goes back and forth from the past to the present to give you an understanding of how the crime took place and the aftermath that leads to the courtroom drama. It’s not difficult to follow it’s just not my preferred storytelling technique. The main character in the story, and whom all the subsequent books in the series will focus on, is Crown Prosecution Service lawyer Eve Wren, and so far I really like her as a character. I absolutely won’t mind reading other books where she is driving the story. I think it will come down to what each case is that she’s working on.

The Seven is about a bombing by a notorious cult leader that killed 43 people and injured dozens of high profile celebrities. I really don’t care too much about “the rich and famous” or the dramas and nonsense of overpaid actors in real life so I can’t say I’m all that interested in what is going on so far in the book. It starts AT the bombing and goes back and forth between all the people involved or who suvived it and also Eve working the case that has already gone to trial.

I can’t say I’m finding it “unputdownable” … and I feel like this is the kind of story that is better seen than read but I’ll stick with it for now because Moira is amazing.

Story this session: 3.0 out of 5.0 stars3.0
Narration: 5.0 out of 5.0 stars5.0