Confessions of the Fox

A Novel

By: Jordy Rosenberg

Narrated by: Aden Hakimi

Recently jilted and increasingly unhinged, Dr. Voth throws himself into his work, obsessively researching the life of Jack Sheppard, a legendary 18th-century thief. No one knows Jack's true story - his confessions have never been found. That is, until Dr. Voth discovers a mysterious stack of papers titled "Confessions of the Fox".

Dated 1724, the manuscript tells the story of an orphan named P. Sold into servitude at 12, P struggles for years with her desire to live as "Jack". When P falls dizzyingly in love with Bess, a sex worker looking for freedom of her own, P begins to imagine a different life. Bess brings P into the London underworld where scamps and rogues clash with London's newly established police force, queer subcultures thrive, and ominous threats of an oncoming plague abound. At last, P becomes Jack Sheppard, one of the most notorious - and most wanted - thieves in history.

Back in the present, Dr. Voth works feverishly day and night to authenticate the manuscript. But he's not the only one who wants Jack's story - and some people will do whatever it takes to get it. As both Jack and Voth are drawn into corruption and conspiracy, it becomes clear that their fates are intertwined - and only a miracle will save them both.

©2018 Jordy Rosenberg (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Dumb Audible Format

Don’t waste your money on audible. Books like these, you need to be able to see the pages as well. Audible takes your money and you still don’t get the book, just a disorganized person talking it out loud.

Beautiful, a bit distracted

I really really love this, and I actually quite enjoy the interjections of the narrator; however, his talking about his ex at very important parts of the story bothered me somewhat.
Loved it so much I listened to it over the course of just two days (sped up, but still incredibly long) while cooking, cleaning, and playing games

Superb!!!

Superb book. Loved it. Highly recommend for those looking for books with LGBTQ themes and the early Atlantic World.

Simply stunning!

Nothing short of a literary tour-de-force. A major novel. I literally sobbed at the end. Beautiful, engaging writing throughout. An absolute must-read for any lover of literature.

Strong story with distracting sidebars

Captivating story. I found the author's frequent sidebars about a parallel modern day story distracting and not nearly as interesting as the main story.

BLOWN AWAY

Every trans person should read this. Every queer person should read this. Genuinely. Reading this book did more to heal the wounds within me than a year of sessions with my cisgender therapist EVER could. Blew me out of the water at every turn, and the way the author inserted himself made everything come together perfectly. By the end, it’s just you and your community, collectively mourning our heroes and hoping for a future that treats them better.

it's okay

Not great, not bad. The plot had some interesting ideas, but they weren't very well executed (and some things brought on big eye rolls). The narration was fine, but all the footnotes were hard to follow in an auditory format. This one might just be better to read than listen to.

Too long!

another queer book that drags on and on and on... struggled to finish indeed!

Pretentious in need of a good story

I rarely don’t finish a book but this was impossible to tolerate after the first few chapters. The pseudo-academic pretentiousness was tedious. The narrator was pretty awful and monotonous too with a few lame attempts at a British accent.

I just thought it was a little hard to follow.

I liked a lot of the concepts or stories but the chapters all blend into each other a little bit. Maybe the YouTube video I watch abt it will enlighten me to its prose but I doubt that.