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Title: Do Not Become Alarmed

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Maile Meloy

Narrator: Maile Meloy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-17

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 273 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

From a beloved award-winning writer, the much-anticipated novel about what happens when two families go on a tropical vacation - and the children go missing.

When Liv and Nora decide to take their families on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities seem infinite. The children - two 11-year-olds, an eight-year-old, and a six-year-old - love the nonstop buffet and the independence they have at the Kids' Club. But when they all go ashore in beautiful Central America, a series of minor misfortunes leads the families farther and farther from the ship's safety. One minute the children are there, and the next they're gone.

What follows is a riveting, revealing story told from the perspectives of the adults and the children, as the once-happy parents - now turning on one another and blaming themselves - try to recover their children and their lives.

Celebrated for her ability to write vivid, spare, moving fiction, Maile Meloy shows how quickly the life we count on can fall away and how a crisis changes everyone's priorities. The fast-paced, gripping plot of Do Not Become Alarmed carries with it an insightful, provocative examination of privilege, race, guilt, envy, the dilemmas of modern parenthood, and the challenge of living up to our own expectations.

Members Reviews:

Good book

I didn't care for the narrator, she didn't do well with different voices. Honestly, I almost didn't finish after the first few chapters. However, I was already interested and wanted to know what happened, so I endured. I'm glad I did, as I enjoyed the story. Some areas were a short on detail (for me) and in others too much, but overall it was good. I would have enjoyed it more had I read it rather than listened to the audible version.

Holds nothing back.

This novel goes every single place you are afraid it will go and more. Brava!

Better to read the book

The story was really good but the narration is awful. Its narrated by the author, authors should stick to writing and find a great narrator to tell the story.

The bad narration really made it hard to stick with this book and really over shadowed the overall story telling.

Read the book, don't listen

interesting story line, ok characters - no real development but moments of personal truth. but the narrator- not good! nasally and whiny and same terrible South American accents! the narrator is the author and that was a mistake. for so much of the book being spoken from Spanish speaking characters you would think they could get someone who could do an accent properly. the author's accent is almost racist, just slurry English. shame.

Kept my interest

Did not realize the author was the reader. She did a good job with the Spanish pronunciations and the accents of Spanish speakers speaking English.