L.B.

Grabbed me from the first chapter

Revisado: 01-09-17

If you could sum up The Body Reader in three words, what would they be?

Devoured it whole.

What other book might you compare The Body Reader to and why?

On the one hand, I could compare it to any in the genre of crime thrillers, but on the other hand, it has an angle that sets it apart from the standards of the genre and made it particularly interesting to me.

Have you listened to any of Emily Sutton-Smith’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I have not heard any of her other performances, but I really enjoyed this one -- mainly because she presented the story with just enough differentiation of character and setting of scene to help me (the "reader") to follow the story easily, but not so much as to interfere with me creating the story world in my own imagination, the way I would if I were reading it myself. In my personal opinion, this is the hallmark of a great performance for an audio book.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

YES, and I just about did! I started this book on Saturday afternoon and could not put it down -- I was listening to the last half hour in bed on Sunday night because I HAD to hear how it ended. It was a fantastic story that kept me guessing and kept me not just interested, but absolutely hooked.

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Great story, but not my favorite performance

Revisado: 01-09-17

Where does Hunting Fear rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Hunting Fear is the seventh Kay Hooper book I have listened to from Audible. The story was just as interesting and compelling as the previous six, but I found the production of this particular book to be less to my taste.

Did Dick Hill do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

The characters were well differentiated - but this was accomplished by giving a lot of characters accents that I personally found very distracting. I just don't think everyone needs an accent. And for a character like Bishop, who has a role in every novel, to suddenly have an accent that he never previously had, is beyond distracting. I don't want to be thinking, "why does he sound like that? what accent is that even supposed to be?" when I should just be enjoying the story.

Details like having the sound change when a character was talking through a phone or listening to a report on the radio were also distracting.

I think I prefer to imagine these things rather than having them explicitly performed for me. I had my own imagined version of Bishop and his team after six books, and this performance clashed with my version to such an extent that I was pulled out of the story by it. I think maybe the reading needs to be a little more neutral, especially when it is part of a series with recurring characters but different readers.

So the performance was a detraction, but even so, I really liked the story and I'm looking forward to the next one in the series.

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