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Title: Lion Heart

Author: Justin Cartwright

Narrator: Robin Bowerman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-30-14

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Richie Cathars father, Alaric, was a renaissance man: an intellectual, explorer, archaeologist, and historian. He was also a fantasist, absentee parent, and drug abuser.

Alaric named his son after Richard, Coeur de Lion, but left him only conflicting memories when he died. Now Richie is in search of his own role.... Following his fathers trail to the Holy Land to research the Art of the Medieval Latin Kingdom, Richies quest is to uncover the fate of Christianitys most sacred relic and the truth about his father.

Critic Reviews:

"The range of this book is astonishing." (Daily Mail)

"The best of Cartwright's prose is as smoothly enjoyable as ever." (Jonathan Barnes, Literary Review)

"Anybody who wonders whether novelists can keep up with an accelerating world should read Justin Cartwright." (Independent on Sunday)

Members Reviews:

A difficult plot and a boring book.

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

Making the history and its links with the current time plots easier to understand.

What was most disappointing about Justin Cartwrights story?

I was bored by the history and the plots didn't grip me.

What does Robin Bowerman bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you had only read the book?

I'm not sure, though he read it well.

What character would you cut from Lion Heart?

Maybe Emily, not totally sure.

Any additional comments?

I found this one long ramble and the only bits that gripped me was the subplot that had 2 lovers who didn't know each other being related to each other in blood which in the end cost one her life. I didn't want to know all the sexual details either. In short, this book wasn't enjoyable for me.

The desciption can lead you astray

The description of the book, supported with where I found it in the search engine of Audible, led me to believe this was a book about the time of Richard I. Some mention of its modern setting would have steered me away. Given that, I gave it a try but couldn't get past the 1st person "I am walking up the Banbury Road to the FedEx depot in Summertown" ...

Ryan Williams wrote a encapsulating review at http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17978235-lion-heart ... his "There's a simple test regarding how likely you are to enjoy the fiction of Justin Cartwright. It goes like this." hits the mark.

Check out Lucy Daniel's review in the Telegraph ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/fictionreviews/hardbackfictionreviews/10339453/Lion-Heart-by-Justin-Cartwright-review.html ... from the above you will be able to gauge if it is one to give a go, or one to let pass.

I found the narrator just didn't help. The little gasps of breath, the short, bland delivery ...