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A review by book_concierge
The Longest Night by Andria Williams
4.0
Digital audiobook performed by Rebecca Lowman, Hillary Huber and MacLeod Andrews
In June 1959, a young military couple moves to Idaho Falls when the husband is assigned to work at one of the country’s first nuclear power plants. Natalie and Paul Collier have two girls, but Nat can’t seem to form any friendships among the other Army wives and she’s lonely and restless. Paul notices some issues with the reactor and feels that his superiors are doing nothing to correct the problems. Tensions build, and it’s a question of what will blow first – the reactor, Paul’s career, or Nat and Paul’s marriage.
I love character-based novels like this. The way in which Williams writes these characters gives great insight into what is going on. The reader is privy to their secret thoughts, their emotions, fears, disappointments, joys, and expectations. Williams gives us three narrators; in addition to Paul and Nat, we also have Jeannie, the wife of Paul’s supervisor, Master Sergeant Richards. Where Paul and Nat are young, in love, with their future ahead of them, Jeannie and her husband have settled into a sort of truce. She puts up with his womanizing and drinking, trying her best to ensure he doesn’t mess up enough to jeopardize his retirement pension. He closes his eyes to Jeannie’s mean-spiritedness, her gossiping and efforts to numb her disappointments with a drink – or a dalliance - of her own.
Add a handsome local cowboy into the mix and things get interesting quickly.
I was interested and engaged from beginning to end and could hardly put it down.
The audiobook is performed by three talented voice artists: Rebecca Lowman, Hillary Huber and MacLeod Andrews. They do a marvelous job. Each takes a different narrator, making it easy to follow the changes in point of view.
In June 1959, a young military couple moves to Idaho Falls when the husband is assigned to work at one of the country’s first nuclear power plants. Natalie and Paul Collier have two girls, but Nat can’t seem to form any friendships among the other Army wives and she’s lonely and restless. Paul notices some issues with the reactor and feels that his superiors are doing nothing to correct the problems. Tensions build, and it’s a question of what will blow first – the reactor, Paul’s career, or Nat and Paul’s marriage.
I love character-based novels like this. The way in which Williams writes these characters gives great insight into what is going on. The reader is privy to their secret thoughts, their emotions, fears, disappointments, joys, and expectations. Williams gives us three narrators; in addition to Paul and Nat, we also have Jeannie, the wife of Paul’s supervisor, Master Sergeant Richards. Where Paul and Nat are young, in love, with their future ahead of them, Jeannie and her husband have settled into a sort of truce. She puts up with his womanizing and drinking, trying her best to ensure he doesn’t mess up enough to jeopardize his retirement pension. He closes his eyes to Jeannie’s mean-spiritedness, her gossiping and efforts to numb her disappointments with a drink – or a dalliance - of her own.
Add a handsome local cowboy into the mix and things get interesting quickly.
I was interested and engaged from beginning to end and could hardly put it down.
The audiobook is performed by three talented voice artists: Rebecca Lowman, Hillary Huber and MacLeod Andrews. They do a marvelous job. Each takes a different narrator, making it easy to follow the changes in point of view.