Marchaan

Mediocre at best.

Revisado: 12-20-22

The narrator sounds like a news anchor. This makes for a very comical listening experience. I cackled and found this audiobook to be very amusing mostly because the narrator simply missed the mark.

This is not a serious read.

The story is simple and reads like a Hallmark movie. I’d recommend the book versus audiobook.

I will not read/listen to anything else from this author or narrator. But I can see many readers enjoying the book.

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When the past haunts you

Revisado: 08-21-21

“When the past comes back to haunt you”—is the theme of this story.

“Disclaimer” is a book about revenge and regret, but most importantly, deceit. Renee Knight’s debut psychological thriller is intriguing.

Imagine realizing the fiction book you’ve discovered on your nightstand entitled, “The Perfect Stranger” is actually an in-depth story about you! Specifically, a secret you’ve hidden for 20 years. Catherine Ravenscroft, a documentary filmmaker experiences this very thing.

The language was precise and very clever. All the fat was trimmed off the words, leaving only the meat of the story to devour. It’s an intriguing concept to have a story within a story. A book within a book.

It’s even more captivating that this book is narrated by two people from two different perspectives. How are they connected?

Catherine Ravenscroft and Steven Briggstock, are the two main characters in this book. Read by Laura Paton (in 3rd person POV) and Michael Pennington (in 1st person POV as Steven Briggstock).

The character of Steven becomes increasingly more disturbing and unsettling as he reveals himself as the spiteful retired English teacher who stalks Catherine and others and who has been accused of inappropriate interactions with male students.

The characters in this book are layered and complex and at times I found myself sympathizing with all of them, a testament to Renee’s clever writing.

There are moments, however, where the reader must use their suspension of disbelief because events would simply never unfold as described, in reality.

There’s two ways to understand the ending. Most reviews didn’t seem to suspect that Catherine, the main character, was lying. Without this particular revelation, I would have assumed—I almost did, that the ending was a gimmick just to satisfy the reader…to make us believe that this book just needed an extra oompfh. An “ah-ha”! But I did a double take.

Catherine was the most clever of them all. Think about it. Those who read/listened to the book/audiobook and are deep thinkers will recognize this as the psychological part, at its core.

That when something so regretful happens, a person may be compelled to reimagine and convince themself that the events that took place may not have happened at all.

Which begs the question, “What do you do when the past comes back to haunt you?”

The answer is, you provide a disclaimer.

This book was a masterpiece.

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Sweet and Simple Story

Revisado: 05-29-21 El oyente recibió este título gratis

Enjoyable. The plot is pretty straight forward: this is a feel-good story. An easy read. The performance by the narrator was consistent and at times humorous. She narrated at a good pace and I really enjoyed her voice. The recording was decent. No background noise or static.

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