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Bernice Summerfield: The Mirror Effect
Oct. 9th, 2024 07:04 amOnto the last in the third series of Big Finish Bernice Summerfield audios. And this is another small cast one, set in a mysterious and unexpected location, featuring strange visions, doppelgängers, and hints at much darker aspects of Braxiatel, Benny's boss.
It's a complicated plot, and you need to pay close attention, but it rewards focused listening. Lisa Bowerman is particularly strong as Benny, though Miles Richardson is in a close second place as the slippery Braxiatel.
Best of all it moves the ongoing saga of Benny, Jason, Adrian and Peter forward, with a clever mix of the real characters and imagined doppelgängers. Which works surprisingly well on audio.
The ending is rather chaotic, and certainly action packed, though in a way that is perhaps a little harder to visualise from the audio alone. But it is a dramatic ending, and overall satisfying.
Though this absolutely isn't a suitable story to listen to in isolation. The listener must know the back story of Benny, Jason, Adrian, and Peter. Explanations in the audio are not enough.
And for readers/listeners who found the circumstances of the conception of Peter to be extremely troubling, this audio may be too much in that respect too. But I enjoyed it.
It's a complicated plot, and you need to pay close attention, but it rewards focused listening. Lisa Bowerman is particularly strong as Benny, though Miles Richardson is in a close second place as the slippery Braxiatel.
Best of all it moves the ongoing saga of Benny, Jason, Adrian and Peter forward, with a clever mix of the real characters and imagined doppelgängers. Which works surprisingly well on audio.
The ending is rather chaotic, and certainly action packed, though in a way that is perhaps a little harder to visualise from the audio alone. But it is a dramatic ending, and overall satisfying.
Though this absolutely isn't a suitable story to listen to in isolation. The listener must know the back story of Benny, Jason, Adrian, and Peter. Explanations in the audio are not enough.
And for readers/listeners who found the circumstances of the conception of Peter to be extremely troubling, this audio may be too much in that respect too. But I enjoyed it.