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readsipsnuggle's review
4.0
I always find Mary Higgins Clark books really intriguing and this was no exception.
apostrophen's review
3.0
Y'know how sometimes you pick up a book and you think, "Wow, that's an interesting cover," and you flip it over and read the back and think, "Wow, that's an interesting plot set-up," and then you check out the author and you think, "Crap. That's an author I can't stand."
There's the sitch.
Thing is, I participated in an audiobookbox trade thingy on bookcrossing.com, and a whole box of audiobooks arrived, and this was in it. I have a thing for paranormal stories, and this title involves, at least tangentally, a lady who is somewhat psychic. She's pretty cool, lives a good life, and then boom, up in flames goeth the husband's boat while he and many business folk are on it. She's got this whole "I'm going to be in politics," thing going on, and she's entirely independent, and in a slight way you're quite quickly aware that she realizes the blow-uppance of her husband wasn't exactly a bad thing to her happiness and well-being. But still, it was her (at least hypothetically) life-mate, and so she when things don't add up, and she gets funny vibes about the deaths, she goes investigating - could it be that her husband was murdered? Not a boating accident, but a murder? No!
Yes.
So, four CDs later, and I'm done. It was pretty good - except that I couldn't stand most of the characters, and even the heroine was a bit... wishy-washy? Anyway, the paranormal part was paranormal enough that I liked that sub-plot, and as such, the CD audiobook gets a passing grade. Also, the reader, Jan Maxwell, did a decent job at letting her voice display the characters - I wasn't often lost in multiple-character conversations, as so often happens in audiobooks.
Onward to another tape...
There's the sitch.
Thing is, I participated in an audiobookbox trade thingy on bookcrossing.com, and a whole box of audiobooks arrived, and this was in it. I have a thing for paranormal stories, and this title involves, at least tangentally, a lady who is somewhat psychic. She's pretty cool, lives a good life, and then boom, up in flames goeth the husband's boat while he and many business folk are on it. She's got this whole "I'm going to be in politics," thing going on, and she's entirely independent, and in a slight way you're quite quickly aware that she realizes the blow-uppance of her husband wasn't exactly a bad thing to her happiness and well-being. But still, it was her (at least hypothetically) life-mate, and so she when things don't add up, and she gets funny vibes about the deaths, she goes investigating - could it be that her husband was murdered? Not a boating accident, but a murder? No!
Yes.
So, four CDs later, and I'm done. It was pretty good - except that I couldn't stand most of the characters, and even the heroine was a bit... wishy-washy? Anyway, the paranormal part was paranormal enough that I liked that sub-plot, and as such, the CD audiobook gets a passing grade. Also, the reader, Jan Maxwell, did a decent job at letting her voice display the characters - I wasn't often lost in multiple-character conversations, as so often happens in audiobooks.
Onward to another tape...
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