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A review by donasbooks
Locust Lane by Stephen Amidon
4.0
Thank you to author Stephen Amidon, publishers MacMillanAudio, and as always NetGalley, for a advance audio copy of LOCUST LANE, narrated by Cassandra Campbell.
I went into this book with very little information (other than it was a domestic thriller with a large cast) and very few expectations (as it has gotten wildly mixed reviews). Normally I'm not a fan of large casts in an audiobook, but I have been often pleased with MacMillan Audio's productions.
Cassandra Campbell narrates the cast really well. Some of her ability to do this is because of Amidon's writing. He doesn't try to generate artificial static by having the characters fight for page time. Each one comes on the page, shows the reader their hand, and steps off. Then, importantly, they stay off until they have more to show, and not before.
I loved how the information comes together, as a result of how Amidon writes each character's section. Suspense is thick and the story felt compelling to me the entire way through.
My only complaint is about the very last scene!! I listened to it multiple times and couldn't figure out how it connected back to the main conflict, which I felt had been resolved already. I couldn't even figure out what was really happening in the scene. Perhaps Amidon intends this bit of obscurity, since this book is in part about the nature of small town justice being subject to the imperfect gaze of the spying neighbor.
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I went into this book with very little information (other than it was a domestic thriller with a large cast) and very few expectations (as it has gotten wildly mixed reviews). Normally I'm not a fan of large casts in an audiobook, but I have been often pleased with MacMillan Audio's productions.
Cassandra Campbell narrates the cast really well. Some of her ability to do this is because of Amidon's writing. He doesn't try to generate artificial static by having the characters fight for page time. Each one comes on the page, shows the reader their hand, and steps off. Then, importantly, they stay off until they have more to show, and not before.
I loved how the information comes together, as a result of how Amidon writes each character's section. Suspense is thick and the story felt compelling to me the entire way through.
My only complaint is about the very last scene!! I listened to it multiple times and couldn't figure out how it connected back to the main conflict, which I felt had been resolved already. I couldn't even figure out what was really happening in the scene. Perhaps Amidon intends this bit of obscurity, since this book is in part about the nature of small town justice being subject to the imperfect gaze of the spying neighbor.
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