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The Whispers

By: Heidi Perks
Narrated by: Karen Cass, Nneka Okoye, Helen Keeley
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About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

The gripping thriller from the best-selling author of Now You See Her.

In a small town, gossip spreads like wildfire....

Anna Robinson has it all. A loving husband. A son she adores. A close circle of friends. When Anna disappears overnight, everyone is desperate to uncover what happened. Why would Anna leave her perfect life behind? Is she the victim of something more sinister?

At the playground gates, it's not long before rumours start to circulate. Someone must know the truth. And as the pressure mounts, it won't be long before they crack....

©2021 Heidi Perks (P)2021 Penguin Audio Crime Thrillers Psychological Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction

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The narration was like someone reading the news and the story was quite average. I think it was a wasted credit

A little boring

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This was a fantastic story to read. I loved this and would highly reccomend it

Fantastic story

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The story is slow to start but gets interesting 2/3rds of the way through.

I didn’t enjoy the narration, the character of Grace in particular. She kept making sentences sound like questions and her accent was slipping which made it hard to focus on the story. I think she may have recorded her section remotely as there was a vast difference in quality compared to the other voices.

Unfortunately this book is not the usual high quality Audible audiobook.

Narration let’s it down

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Halfway through, started to be boring and predictable🤦🏻‍♀️ easy to guess what end was. Was bored half way through.

Easy to guess what ending would be

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A bit disappointed by Heidi Parks, her books are usually much better. Narrators perform well though.

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Story was really good and well thought out. A little bit different to the crime thrillers I normally end up reading but it was good. The characters were easy to slip into the minds of.
I feel like some of the narrators were a little robotic at times and sometimes read sentences in tones that turned them into questions when they weren’t meant to be, it made it quite distracting from the the story initially but you do get used it.

Good story, enjoyed it!

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Okay- I’m going to be doing a list of positives and negative’s. A positive would be that it was a good story and good plot- however a negative would be that it was drawn out with unpleasant characters who are hard to relate to. A positive would be it kept me listening to the end which is more than I can say for some stories.

Positives and negative’s

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A good story, kept me in suspense. Found the narrator a little annoying. One was a little robotic sounding and the recording quite tinny and the other a weird thing where she dragged lots of words and went up at the end of the sentence. Think would be better to read the book rather than listen to audio in this case but good!!

Great story line

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I found it slow and repetitive, I imagine it was being dragged out to build suspense but it didn’t work for me.
The characters were a bit immature as if still at school rather than in their late 30s. I hoped for an exciting twist at the end.
Narrator seemed to forget the accents being used for some characters - the therapist and Graham in particular! Sometimes the narration was so robotic I wondered if it was actually a human or not, other times it was breathy and panicky like someone anxiously narrating an M&S Food advert.

Slow burn fizzles out

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I don’t understand when they use actors, mainly to read stories, why it’s so hard for them to ‘act’ them.

Only just started this but sending it back as the poor narration is spoiling the story

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