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Title: The Dive from Clausen's Pier

Author: Ann Packer

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-15

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 48 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A riveting novel about loyalty and self-knowledge and the conflict between who we want to be to others and who we must be for ourselves.

Carrie Bell has lived in Wisconsin all her life. She's had the same best friend, the same good relationship with her mother, the same boyfriend - Mike, now her fiancé - for as long as anyone can remember. It's with real surprise she finds that, at age 23, her life has begun to feel suffocating. She longs for a change, an upheaval, a chance to begin again.

That chance is granted to her, terribly, when Mike is injured in an accident. Now Carrie has to question everything she thought she knew about herself and the meaning of home. She must ask: How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strength or of weakness to walk away from someone in need?

The Dive from Clausen's Pier reminds us how precarious our lives are and how quickly they can be divided into before and after, whether by random accident or by the forces of our own desires. It begins with a disaster that could happen out of the blue in anybody's life, and it forces us to ask how we would bear up in the face of tragedy and what we know, or think we know, about our deepest allegiances. Elegantly written and ferociously paced, emotionally nuanced and morally complex, The Dive from Clausen's Pier marks the emergence of a prodigiously gifted new novelist.

Critic Reviews:

"The novels it calls most to mind...are Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls and Sue Miller's The Good Mother...its most admirable trait - and surely the one that will define Packer's future work - is its moral authenticity." (Gail Caldwell, Boston Globe)

Members Reviews:

Must read!

Such a great story and the way it was told definitely helped with understanding all the events that were going on.

Disappointing on many levels

First, I found myself disliking the main character which made the first person narration difficult to take.

Second, Cassandra Campbell is one of my favorite narrators, but she took a whiny tone for the main character that was highly annoying.

Finally, the story itself evolved into something so terribly disappointing that I feel like I've just wasted the past many hours listening.

Narrators voice depresses me

I think the story was ok, but the narrator makes every sentence sound sad. Too depressing

I'm not really sure what I just listened to.

This book was incredibly, I mean incredibly, slow moving. It was not captivating in the slightest. At the end I kind of feel like I just listened to a 15 hour boring story from a coworker.

loved it!

couldn't put it down. very realistic. a great beach read but with substance. I will read more.

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Title: Villa on the Riviera

Author: Elizabeth Edmondson

Narrator: Nicolette McKenzie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-17-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 160 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Absorbing and escapist, The Villa on the Riviera is perfect summer listening for fans of Rachel Hore and Santa Montefiore.

Polly Smith is struggling to make a living as an artist when her friend and patron, Oliver, invites her to the south of France. But her world is unexpectedly turned upside down when she digs out her birth certificate to apply for a passport. Her parents are not who she believed them to be - even her name is different.

Fleeing to the Riviera, Polly finds that the serenity and sunshine brings her art to life as never before. But all is not well in the grand house. Oliver's father was forced to leave England in a cloud of scandal and his past is about to catch up with him. And Polly's own future begins to take on a new and fascinating shape....

The perfect listen for fans of The Villa and Summer's Child, this is a beguiling and evocative tale that will transport you away to the Riviera itself.

Members Reviews:

Too many characters for so thin a plot

The reader was excellent, giving each of the (far too) many characters a separate voice. The characterizations were very good, even the minor characters were described with perhaps more detail than they deserved. The plot was thin and the book went on too long.

Good, too many characters not completely developed

There were far too many characters who were interesting in the beginning, but lost steam towards the end of the book. Still a listenable book for a beach or a car ride.

Pornographic

Story was fine until introduction of pornography. I did not finish book because of this.

A Good Storyline

This book has a good storyline that is easy to follow. It is well read.

Meandering and boring

I was hoping this would be a cozy and entertaining mystery/romance story. No such luck.

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Title: Orhan's Inheritance

Author: Aline Ohanesian

Narrator: Assaf Cohen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-15

Publisher: HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 813 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When Orhan's brilliant and eccentric grandfather - a man who built a dynasty out of making kilim rugs - is found dead, submerged in a vat of dye, Orhan inherits the decades-old business. But his grandfather's will raises more questions than answers.

Kemal has left the family estate to a stranger, thousands of miles away, an aging woman in an Armenian retirement home in Los Angeles. Her existence and secrecy about her past only deepen the mystery of why Orhan's grandfather would have willed their home in Turkey to an unknown woman rather than to his own son or grandson.

Left with only Kemal's ancient sketchbook and intent on righting this injustice, Orhan boards a plane to Los Angeles. There, over many meetings, he will not only unearth the story that 87-year-old Seda so closely guards, but discover that Seda's past now threatens to unravel his future. It's a story that, if told, has the power to undo the legacy upon which his family is built.

Moving back and forth in time, between the last years of the Ottoman Empire and the 1990s, Orhan's Inheritance is a story of passionate love, unspeakable horrors, incredible resilience, and the hidden stories that haunt a family.

Members Reviews:

Beautiful and Haunting

Beautifully written story crossing decades of history and heartbreak. It begins with a curious twist in Orhan's grandfathers will which sends him on a journey revealing not only a family's history but an understanding of why we should not always try to forget the past.

I have to admit to not knowing much about the Armenian involvement in the war and the atrocities they suffered. After listening to this book I can understand why so many people suffer mental trauma throughout their lives as a legacy of war - how could anyone possibly forget such horrors.

Assaf Cohen's excellent narration only adds to the enjoyment of this book.

This is a beautiful, haunting book that will stay with you long after you have finished it.

Short and powerful

This is a quick read, but packs a big message. It's multi generational, spanning the Armenian genocide to the early 1990s. It conveys a lot of themes-war, love, fathers/sons, family, and the notion of the oft mentioned 'past'. While it sometimes gets a little preachy and self righteous, it's an important book that captures a period of history that is often forgotten as part of the larger narrative of World War One. The narration was pretty good, but the cheesy Turkish accents were laughable.

Lovely and sad

Any additional comments?

This story was so lovely and sad. For me it underlined how cruel humans can be to their neighbors and how damaging ignoring history is to a people. I'm of African-American descent and we struggle with many of the same types of issues the characters in this novel face. Our history, too, remains rewritten, ignoring or whitewashing the horrors our ancestors faced. The relationships between the characters in this novel also mirror the complicated relationships between African-Americans and other Americans. The issue of reparations remains an issue in both contexts.And the blatant disregard for the impact to the communities in the modern era is also common in both situations.

I closed this book with a sense of the universality of the character's experiences. No people is without horrors and tragedies in their collective history.

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Title: The Second Sister

Author: Marie Bostwick

Narrator: Angela Brazil

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-15

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 202 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

From New York Times best-selling author Marie Bostwick comes an emotionally rich, inspiring new novel about family, second chances, and the connections that bring women together in hope and healing.

Years of long workdays and little sleep as a political campaigner are about to pay off now that Lucy Toomey's boss is entering the White House. But when her estranged older sister, Alice, unexpectedly dies, Lucy is drawn back to Nilson's Bay, her small, close-knit Wisconsin hometown.

An accident in her teens left Alice mentally impaired, and she was content to stay in Nilson's Bay. Lucy, meanwhile, got out and never looked back. But now, to meet the terms of Alice's eccentric will, Lucy has taken up temporary residence in her sister's cottage - and begins to see the town, and Alice's life, anew. Alice's diverse group of friends appears to have little in common besides an interest in quilting. Yet deep affection for Alice united them, and soon Lucy, too, is brought into the fold as they share problems and stories. And as she finds warmth and support in this new circle, Lucy begins to understand this will be her sister's enduring gift: a chance to move beyond her difficult past and find what she has long been missing.

Members Reviews:

Good Story, But ...

The story is very good. I do hope it becomes a series as the characters were interesting and all have more life in them.

My only complaint is the reader. I found her voice irritating and the way she emphasized every few words in a sentence was annoying and unnecessary. It got in the way of m enjoying the book as much as I would have with a better narrator.

Honestly, I wish I'd read the book instead of listening to it.

Ho-Hum

I found it strange that the main character didn't seem very affected by her sister's death. Ok story overall, would be good to read around Christmas time. imagery and setting were well done.

Not my favorite

A nice story but a bit predictable. Seems like it is written for a young audience and the narrator who is supposed to be in her 30's talks like a teenager. A bit disappointing.

so so story. ..annoying narration

Story starts off with promise - if you can get past the narrator's emphasis on every single word. The story becomes overly burdened with what I imagine the author feels is the fabric of the narrative - but it weighs down the plot and keeps it from moving forward. As for the reading, it was frustrating in that every single word is read with equal weight. not worth 14 hours of your time...

Can't bear to listen to this for one more minute!

This book wasnt for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

Anyone who doesn't mind the way the narrator reads in a singsong, over emphasized, talking to a toddler tone of voice. Harsh, but I had to abandon this book for that reason.

What could Marie Bostwick have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

I have loved Marie Bostwick's books and this one has been on my wish list for a long time. I thought the main character was not a likeable person. She said her mentally challenged sister was her priority, but she hadn't been home for Christmas for 8 years?! Her feelings and reactions to situations were shallow and superficial.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

I thought she would settle down once she got into the rhythm of the story, but she did not.

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Title: Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers

Subtitle: A 44 Scotland Street Novel

Author: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrator: Robert Ian Mackenzie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-17-15

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 507 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

As summer blooms in Edinburgh's gardens, and Bertie Pollock's birthday appears on the horizon, all at 44 Scotland Street is not cake and sunshine. Newlywed Angus Lordie has been booked by his bride into what he must not call the loony bin; Bruces first encounter with hot wax brings more anguish than he bargained for; and Bertie's birthday dreams of scout camp and a penknife look set to be replaced by a game of Royal Weddings and a gender-neutral doll. But fate, an amorous Bedouin, and the Dubai Tourist Authority conspire to transport Bertie's mother, Irene, to a warmer--if not a better--place, and once again on Scotland Street the triumph of human kindness over adversity gives cause for celebration.

Members Reviews:

Bertie turns seven!!!!

Oh the joy of visiting Edinburgh with McCall Smith as he observes the absurd, the kind, the lonely, the ridiculous and the obnoxious all appropriate adjectives for the various characters who reside at, or are former residents of, 44 Scotland Street and its environs. If you have not read this series I strongly recommend that you begin at the beginning and learn to know and, at times, love the various personalities. Bertie seems to be trapped in amber as it has taken him much longer than the average child to reach the lofty age of seven .. he has been six for years! Get out your Spode china, set a tray for tea (this will make sense as you read the book) and relax as you enter the other worldliness that exists in McCall Smith's Edinburgh be prepared for laugh out loud moments, poignant moments, and the pure bliss of Cyril getting drunk!

Bertie turns (spoiler)

As Dr McGregor says "even the most dull story can be fascinating". That is Alexander McCall Smith gift to us to make the ordinary extraordinary. Once again I am inspired and saddened by Angus Lordy poetry because that puts an end to another chapter at 44 Scotland St. This time the party is a birthday party for a young man who has wanted to be 7 for a long time. Due to strange and hilarious circumstances he was able to have a little boys party without Irene's interference. Elsewhere: Pat may have found love. Bruce met his match. Matt and Elspeth learns it takes a village (cottage). Even Big Lou may have found unconditional love. Every story was enjoyable.

Nothing much ever happens. Not my cup of tea!

I saw that readers gave this the most favorable rating of any in this series, so I thought I'd give it a shot. What a disappointment! It seemed more like a collection of character vignettes than a well-formulated novel. Each character seems to be an extreme of some type of personality-a kind of cartoonish caricature. Smith is a good writer, and there are spots of humor, but mostly they take the form of literary slapstick, which gets tiresome very fast. For me, the journey was not rewarding. I probably would not have finished had the narrator (Mackenzie) not been excellent. I won't be trying others in this series.

BOOOOORRRRRIIIIINNNGGGGG!!!!!

Warning: Nothing happens in this book!

For those of you who love McCall Smith's Mma Ramotswe series, this series is not a guarantee. I grant that I jumped in at the end of a series. Even still, it was less eventful than a 1980s sutcom. It is very well written, and the narration was great, but it was SO boring!

Now I'm really going to spoil it for you.

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Title: The Time Being

Author: Antonia Honeywell

Narrator: Melody Grove

Format: Unabridged

Length: 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-12-15

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1609 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

At 11 Lalla should be enjoying her childhood in London. But this is not London as we know it. In a collapsed society, Lalla struggles to imagine her future. When a government announcement invites her to enjoy a new life in Regents Park, Lalla sees a glimmer of hope. But what is she willing to risk?

The Time Being is the short-story prequel to The Ship by Antonia Honeywell, if you enjoyed this, youll love the full-length novel sequel.

Members Reviews:

Short and Free

This seemed to me to have the feel of a YA girl story. I did not hate it or love it. It did not encourage me to buy the full length novel. If you are interested it is free and it is short.

I want more from this author!

This story is interesting. How often is that actually true? The characters, the setting, the descriptions, all interesting. I was motivated to go find Honeywell's blog where, as I hoped, she said her (first) book will be released soon. I will absolutely be giving it a try.

Good narration, meh story

A short story free from Audible, consisting mainly of an 11-year-old girl in a dystopian London who decides she knows better than her parents and subsequently putting all of them in great danger. I loathed the girl, Lalla Im not a huge fan of children, and this is a great example of why: I want to go. No. But I want to go! No. But I want to go! No. Repeat ad infinitum. I once worked for CVS, with its bank of candy bars in front of the registers, and will always remember one father and very young daughter who came in. Daddy, I want a candy bar. No, honey. I want a candy bar. No. But I want one! I said no. Daddy, I want a candy bar! No. DADDY, I WANT A CANDY BAR! Fine. Which one? I wanted to punch him in the nose. So Im well aware that its the parents who are at fault in something like this the CVS dad caved, and the parents in the story didnt bother to tell Lalla what was obvious to a listener (The films arent real, youll be shot, well be shot, stop asking). But I still despised the girl.

The story might be meaningful to someone who has read the book it prequels; for me it broke no new ground and provided no enjoyment to counter my irritation with the main character. The narration by Melody Grove was quite good I will keep an eye out for her in the future but otherwise Im glad this was free. And brief.

An interesting little story.

It was an interesting story, obviously a teaser to introduce you to the character and setting. It was free so I won't knock it, but it wasn't bad. A nice little story to peak your interest in the dystopian future for this little girl and the new world where no food grows, life depends on computer updates and the military is feared. I would possibly be interested in listening to the next story but am not chomping at the bit to see what happens next.

Wow

This was a great book I loved how the author really gave Lalla a great personality . I loved how the author put great action wording in the book that really made you visualize the scene. This is a greatly detailed book and really gets you wondering about what will happen next. I can't wait to see what happens in the next book . Also Meledy Grove I love your voice you really give the characters seem like they are alive and talking to me. This is a great book that I give 5 stars.

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Title: First Frost

Author: Sarah Addison Allen

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-20-15

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1305 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Sarah Addison Allen, beloved author of Garden Spells, returns with a luminous story of the trouble with hanging on too long, and the magic that happens when you finally let go.

Autumn has finally arrived in the small town of Bascom, North Carolina, heralded by a strange old man appearing with a beat-up suitcase. He has stories to tell, stories that could change the lives of the Waverley women forever. But the Waverleys have enough trouble on their hands. Quiet Claire Waverley has started a successful new venture, Waverley's Candies, but it's nothing like she thought it would be, and it's slowly taking over her life. Claire's wild sister Sydney, still trying to leave her past behind, is about to combust with her desire for another new beginning. And Sydney's fifteen-year-old daughter Bay has given her heart away to the wrong boy and can't get it back.

From the author of the New York Times bestselling sensation Garden Spells, First Frost is magical and atmospheric, taking readers back into the lives of the gifted Waverley women - back to their strange garden and temperamental apple tree, back to their house with a personality of its own, back to the men who love them fiercely - proving that a happily-ever-after is never the real ending to a story. It's where the real story begins.

Members Reviews:

Not as good as Garden Spells

I have read this series because First Frost is this month's selection for my local library book club. The earlier novel, Garden Spells, centered around Waverly sisters Claire and Sidney so I expected the sequel to follow that pattern. However, the main character in this book was Bay, Sidney's daughter.

For me this was a disappointment for two reasons. First, my favorite character is Claire and while her story was certainly continued here, it was not central. Also, while not giving away the plot, I will say that the resolution of the point regarding the stranger and his interaction with Claire was not credible to me.

Second, the prominence of Bay's story moved the series from being a woman's novel in Garden Spells into the YA category with First Frost. There is nothing wrong with YA novels and I have enjoyed a number of them. However, I was surprised at the shift here, especially after the mature themes addressed in the first book.

So after really enjoying the first novel, this one was a slight let down, hence my ratings. Also, the narrator was a bit shrill with some of the voices in this book.

The Magic is Still There!

At first the story began kind of slowly and I was not sure I was going to like it as much as all of Sarah's other books but she snuck up on me and brought the magic through once again! She is one author I always look for Nd hope for more books! We all need a little magic in our life!

Should have known better

What was most disappointing about Sarah Addison Allens story?

This is not a book for Grown ups. It is Teenage Lit. I loved Garden Spells. REALLY loved Garden Spells. I keep buying each new Sarah Addison Allen book thinking I will find another book that lovely, but each one sequentially has gotten worse and worse. I had hope that since she decided to go back to the Waverly's and write a Sequel to Garden Spells she would recover what was so enchanting about that first book. However, this is the worst one yet. I can't even finish it. There is no depth to the characters or the story.

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Title: The Scapegoat

Author: Daphne du Maurier

Narrator: Paul Shelley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-14

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 104 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

By chance, John and Jean - one English, the other French - meet in a provincial railway station. Their resemblance to each other is uncanny, and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking - until at last John falls into a drunken stupor. It's to be his last carefree moment, for when he wakes, Jean has stolen his identity and disappeared. So the Englishman steps into the Frenchman's shoes, and faces a variety of perplexing roles - as owner of a chateau, director of a failing business, head of a fractious family, and master of nothing.

Gripping and complex, The Scapegoat is a masterful exploration of doubling and identity, and of the dark side of the self.

Critic Reviews:

"A dazzlingly clever and immensely entertaining novel." (New York Times)

Members Reviews:

A Fascinating Character-Driven Journey

John is an Englishman who has spent years travelling to France to learn of its history and language, going back to England to teach about his favourite subject at university for his day job. One day while on vacation, he chances to meet a man who looks exactly like him, a Frenchman called Jean. The likeness is uncanny and the other man offers him to share some drinks. After a night of heavy drinking in a hotel room exchanging confidences, John wakes up the next day dressed in the Frenchman's clothes with the man's suitcase there instead of his own, and not a single of his own belongings or identity papers left behind to prove he is anyone else than the Comte Jean de Gué. It becomes amply clear when this man's driver arrives and tells him he's probably had too much to drink after John tries to tell him what has happened, that he won't convince anyone that he is not in fact the Comte. His French is perfect, and for some reason, seeing himself in a mirror wearing the other man's clothes, he discovers the illusion is faultless; he stands a little bit more erect and even finds himself smiling and talking like his doppelgänger, so he decides there is no choice but to go along and play the role he's been stuck with, and lets the driver bring him to Jean de Gué's château to meet the other man's family. Jean had told him he yearned to have a simpler life, with less commitments and fewer belongings, while John felt he'd failed at his own life, and now is a chance to try something else altogether.

Soon John finds himself enmeshed in a complicated web of lies and intrigues, with a grand house full of women and various strangers, most of whom seem angry at him. And then there is a great big beastly woman upstairs he is astounded to find looks like himself but in drag with a huge amount of flesh added on; Jean's mother, which he can't help but call 'maman' and feel real affection for. Nobody takes him seriously when he tells them outright he is not Jean, but an Englishman called John, and that the real Jean has made off with his clothes and his car; they all dismiss his story as yet another one of Jean's pranks, or a consequence of too much drink. Instead a man angrily demands how the trip to Paris went and whether he's gotten the papers signed.

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Title: Atonement

Author: Ian McEwan

Narrator: Carole Boyd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-13-14

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 34 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge.

By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.

Members Reviews:

What a rich experience with excellent narration.

Pared back writing that is meaty . Ian McEwan plays with time and memory and meaning to sculpt a nutritious story.

Slow start but beautifully crafted...

The reason I haven't given this five stars is because of the monotonous start. I nearly gave up. But I stuck with it and, what was a relatively minor event, in the scheme of things, was crafted into a huge web of little mysteries that I wanted resolved. The performance was outstanding and, overall, this is a beautifully written book.

Stylish and deep

Narration superb. Eclipses the film. Excellent in its style and delivery. Better than I had expected for my first book.

Amazing!

I had seen the film long before listening to this audiobook and loved it. However, the book is all the film was and much more. We are allowed access to Briony's mind and reasoning and it is not an easy story to hear. She is a character to love and hate and is written beautifully. I think the narrator does a wonderful job with an amazing story. A must read / listen.

Excellent. Really enjoyed it

Would you consider the audio edition of Atonement to be better than the print version?

I have read the book but really enjoyed hearing the story - it bought it to life for me.

What does Carole Boyd bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you had only read the book?

Really great reading; smooth and handles the language of the book brilliantly.

Any additional comments?

Overall an excellent story with great characters; beautifully written and thoroughly absorbing.

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Title: My Prison Without Bars

Subtitle: The Journey of a Damaged Woman to Someplace Normal

Author: Taylor Evan Fulks

Narrator: Em Eldridge

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-14

Publisher: Taylor Fulks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 208 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

My Prison without Bars: The Journey Of A Damaged Woman To Someplace Normal is a novel based on a true story...Taylor's story. My Prison without Bars is a courageous and harrowing journey through the catacombs of hell, from the mind and voice of a little girl, living with her own monster underneath her bed. Written in first person, this novel is not a memoir, but more a psychological thriller based on true events; chronicling one woman's attempt to claw her way out of the darkness of Child Sexual Abuse, while struggling to find normal, in a not-so-normal world. It is poignant, dark and graphic; not for the faint of heart. This novel will make you feel... *Warning* this novel is graphic and disturbing. It may trigger csa victims. It is intended for 18+ readers

Members Reviews:

My life

I am a 45 yr old woman , who to this day has never been able to put pen to paper and write my story , although I have wanted to throughout countless times in my life. This book has brought about my sad and lonely childhood memories, as if it was written from the depths of my soul , I to suffered in much the same way as the Author, our childhood and adult life are mirror images of one another. I praise Taylor for having the strength to push through and become the woman she has! Even though I become a mother of 5 children and have vowed to never let them see the sadness or live the way I had lived , I lost myself completely as I have devoted my life to my children! I still haven't the strength to confront my mother , I am still yearning for her love and acceptance, I struggle daily with my past , and have never had one person to count on throughout my life:(

I would love to one day speak with the author , as she has given me a tiny bit of hope that maybe someday I can do as she has done and move on. I know this is just a review regarding her book , and she will probably never get a chance to read this, however I would like her to know she is not alone , and I too know all to well what she has endured! My best wishes to her and her family ! May she always have the strength and love within to make it in this crazy life .

A letdown

It started off engaging going on horrific. I wanted to hear about her childhood and find out when does someone finally come to the rescue. but instead just like that her tormentor is gone and I found myself listening to her experience with her first boyfriend, blah, blah, blah... Yawn

All in all a waste of credit! Skip! Opt for something else that catches your attention!

hard to hear then boring.

The start of this book is grafic horror, i almost stopped listing to it many times. I have never heard a book that made my body repelle in anguish. Then the majority of the rest of the book was the mundane life of a woman who needed counseling. Written well, but really just stories and accounts that ment nothing to the main idea of the book.

Very sexually graphic and begins feeling contrived

Having worked with damaged children, I enjoy reading others' accounts of their trials and successes.