Barking
Written by Tom Holt
Narrated by Ray Sawyer
4/5
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About this audiobook
Monsters are roaming the streets of London. Of course, some monsters are scarier than others:
Unicorns? No bother.
Vampires? Big deal.
Werewolves? Ho hum.
Lawyers? ... Aaargh!
Duncan's boss doesn't think that he's cut out to be a lawyer. He isn't a pack animal. He lacks the killer instinct. But when his best friend from school barges his way back into Duncan's life, with a full supporting cast of lawyers, ex-wives, zombies and snow-white unicorns, it's not long before things become distinctly unsettling.
Hairy, even.
Tom Holt
Tom Holt was born in 1961 in London, England. His first book, ‘Poems By Tom Holt’, was published when he was twelve years old. While he was still a student at Oxford he wrote two sequels to E F Benson’s Lucia series. After an undistinguished seven-year stint as a lawyer, he became a full-time writer in 1995 and has published over thirty novels. Tom lives with his wife and daughter in the west of England. As well as writing, he raises pigs and pedigree Dexter cattle.
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Reviews for Barking
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Humdrum "death and taxes" lawyer Duncan Hughes, divorced, very settled in a lonely and boring life, gets involved with werewolves, vampires, and even a shape-shifting unicorn. At first I was very enthousiastic about this book: good writing, nice characters, original plot, lots of suspense, not too silly and formulaic, not too highbrow. After finishing it, my enthousiasm is a bit less: while this is a very nice fantasy/thriller, the plot is not really good enough for 400+ pages. The tension dips, and the reader starts thinking "what is the use of all this" - and I for one did not find a satisfying answer. So: a very nice read, but spun out a bit too long.”
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Barking is a clever approach to the werewolf genre - werewolf lawyers. It's strictly comedy with frequent insightful wit along the way. However, at times Holt does tend to pad out chapters with unnecessary internal monologue. The story itself weaves a line which occasionally slips in to confusion rather than the intended chaos, although there are plenty of recaps to keep the fast paced story in focus. Barking has plenty of magic moments, some very well though out narrative and some top quality originality. Barking is a recommended, if lengthy, read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everybody knows that lawyers are all ambulance chasers or bloodsuckers. Since this is Tom Holt and the story involves 2 law firms, one of vampires and one of werewolves, it isn't hard to figure out which one is which. Holt is a little less subtle in the jokes but not much. Barking is a nice change from the setting of J W Wells, but the overall plot isn't that different. Innocent naif winds up in the middle of the supernatural running as more-or-less normal business in London. Finds girl. Loses girl. Gets girl back. Lives happily ever after, often in America. Why is it that America is some idealized land to various supernatural Londoners? In Vintage Holt style it gets a little slow in the middle while it transitions from the puns, jokes, and innuendo to setting up the hero, heroine, and bad guy for the inevitable fight, non-traditional victory and happy ending with more jokes, innuendo and puns. Holt really likes a pun, especially when he can sneak it up on you, and he can be snarky with some fairly purple prose. If lawyer-werewolf jokes and lines like "Obviously, she must have hidden depths, like the Atlantic (dark, murky, inhabited by pale creepy things with huge eyes and rows of needle-sharp teeth)." are your thing, you'll enjoy Barking.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A terrific return to form for Holt after the disappointing 'Paul Carpenter' series of novels.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Duncan is a lonely lawyer in a dead end job until his luck changes. He's reunited with his school mates and gets himself a partnership, but things are never simple. There are werewolves, vampires, zombies and a shape-shifting unicorn. It's hard to work out which side he's on. As well as being laugh-out-loud funny there are deeper themes of individuality, friendship and love which make this a well rounded tale. Definitely worth the read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Holt finished this up in lovely style, and I enjoy his witty, clean, crisp narration. His characters were not likeable, yet I found myself wanting them to succeed- violently, badly, and it kept me reading. The contrast between the "real" life he'd been living before and his "new" life as a werewolf was at times hilarious, at times delightful.