Booklog 66/2025: Nick Jones: The Observer Effect – Joseph Bridgeman #3 - Audiobook

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Audiobook narrated by Ray Porter

Joseph Bridgeman is drawn back into time travel via the Continuum, together with time-traveller Gabrielle, American, punky acerbic – and she hates Joe’s guts. They travel back to Paris 1873, the burning of the Opera House (a real event) in order to save a talented musician from life-changing injury, and to rescue another time-traveller, Nils, who is stuck in a kind of time-traveller-limbo courtesy of Scarlet (the mysterious antagonist from the second book in the series). Joe is still trying to fit into his new life and regain the trust of Alexia (his love in the first book) but he readily accepts the role of observer on Gabrielle’s mission to Paris and gets drawn into subsequent jumps. One thing leads to another as the pair acclimate to each other and work out how they can succeed. There are hair-raising moments of intrigue and danger. The burning opera house sequence is tense and exciting. Ray Porter does his usual good job of narration, and after three books I’ve stopped asking why an American narrator was chosen to read an English protagonist. It works. Happy to move on to the next book.