The Torment of Rachel Ames
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The Torment of Rachel Ames
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Narrateur(s):
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Lisa Stathoplos
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Auteur(s):
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Jeff Gunhus
À propos de cet audio
Suffering from writer's block, novelist Rachel Ames escapes to a lake cabin to calm her mind and regain a sense of herself. The location is perfect. Isolated. Beautiful. Inspiring. It even comes with a good-looking landlord who shows an interest in her. But she can't shake the sense that something terrible has followed her to the lake, something just beyond her consciousness, something out on the edge where the sounds of a raging fire and sirens linger whenever she slows down to listen. Determined to make the cabin work, she tries to settle in and give her new life a chance. But when strange things begin to happen around her, she wonders if she's made a terrible mistake. As the darkness that's followed her manifests itself in inexplicable ways, her concept of reality is stretched thin and she realizes nothing at the lake is what it seems. As she fights to survive with her sanity intact, she understands too late that the location she's chosen for herself is far from perfect.
©2015 Jeff Gunhus (P)2016 Audible, Inc.Author Jeff Gunhus throws bizarre instance after bizarre instance at his broken protagonist (a semi-imagined lover killed in her arms, giant wolves and giant flesh-eating crows with human faces stalking her, a ghostly child leading her into black woods, a lake filled with writhing corpses, a stranger waxing philosophical, etc). We eventually experience the event that destroyed her.. but most of the story is a series of odd tangentially-connected occurrences. I found the story confusing (the ending, I must say however, is brilliantly revelatory).
As to presentation: Lisa Stathoplos is an effective narrator - reading far too slowly to be sure, but with impressive emotiveness. The performance is solidly "above-average". Setting playback speed at 1.20X improved pacing but rendered the narrator's performance less emotionally affecting.
Altogether, 'The Torment Of Rachel Ames' merits 7 stars out of 10. A number of the protagonist's imagined conversations with ethereal individuals are somewhat nonsensical and Stathplos's glacial reading pace made the book a moderately unsatisfying read. The ending makes the book worth a listen if you can get it for "free".. but you should spend your Credit on something else when they ask for one.
Clever and Imagery-heavy
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