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  • Malevolent

  • Shaye Archer Series, Book 1
  • Written by: Jana DeLeon
  • Narrated by: Julie McKay
  • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (102 ratings)

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Malevolent

Written by: Jana DeLeon
Narrated by: Julie McKay
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Publisher's Summary

From New York Times best-selling author Jana DeLeon, the first in a new thriller series.

Everyone wondered about Shaye Archer's past. Including Shaye.

Shaye Archer's life effectively began the night police found her in an alley, beaten and abused and with no memory of the previous 15 years, not even her name. Nine years later, she's a licensed private investigator with a single goal - to get answers for her clients when there aren't supposed to be any.

And maybe, someday, answers for herself.

Emma Frederick thought her nightmare was over when she killed her abusive husband, but someone is stalking her and tormenting her with mementos from her past. With no evidence to support her claims, the police dismiss her claims as post-traumatic stress, but Shaye is convinced that someone is deliberately terrorizing Emma...playing a cat and mouse game with only one goal in mind.

To kill Emma.

©2015 Jana DeLeon (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

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Surprise!!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book from the beginning right to the surprising end. It held my attention and was full of twists and turns. I'm looking forward to the next book in the Shaye Archer series and I doubt if this author will disappoint.

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Most awful narrator EVER

Very good story but...
I’ve never listened to such an insipid whiney narrator. The plot was excellent but having to listen to the sniveling made me want to ask for a full refund. Buy the hard copy instead.

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Nancy Drew with a gun and a history of abuse

Good-cop, bad-cop; war crimes; lonely widow attended by faithful family retainer; nosey neighbour; orphan girl with mysterious past; ... this book has it all. Raises the evil-twin stakes to new heights.

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Immediately turned it off

I’m sure the story is wonderful, basing it on Jana’s other work. But not even into the first sentence the narrator made me turn it off. Sorry.

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Very good book.

This was a good read and Julie McKay was excellent.
I would recommend this book or audiobook.

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Good

good story nice twist at the end,never figured it out till it was time too.

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awesome story but did NOT like narrator

great story plots. narrator was very robotic when speaking other then the odd vocal/character change. I hope shes not narrating all this series I'll still listen though but...

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Good villian but bad twist at the end

This being the first book in the series I was expecting some character flushing out and that is what happened. Shay Archer a newly minted Private Investigator with a very traumatic past of which she has no memory, takes on a case of a woman who is being harassed by her dead ex-husband, whom she happened to have killed.

The story moves at a decent pace. The villain is sufficiently sick and cunning to be scary and the search for them progresses well. Unfortunately the author decided the ending needed an unexpected twist that for me ruined the story. I won't spoil the ending here. Also there is a collateral death that goes unexplained which made the story feel unfinished because up to this point even minor events get explained.

I never warmed to the narrator's voice. All her male characters had the same voice, sort of a semi-surfer dude voice and the female characters all sounded in the fits of hysteria, even the ones that were meant to be calm.

I would be willing to try another Shay Archer book, but I don't think I would be willing to sit through it with the same person doing the performance.

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Amazing

Loved it, twists and turns were riveting. I will be downloading this entire 6 audiobook series!

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Foggy god god

Too much religious claptrap was the most off-putting part of this book. Other than that, the narrator sounds like a robot, and the dialogue sounds like the worst of a cancelled police procedural. I would not recommend this book at all.

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