audio read by Sandra Burr
Brilliance Audio, 2004
10 cds
384 pgs.
Rating: 1.5
Carolyn Sullivan is a probation officer in Ventura, California. She is also a single mother and part-time law student. Daniel Metroix is being let out of jail after spending over 20 years in jail for a murder, Carolyn discovers, he didn't commit. He is a schizophrenic, a brilliant unschooled physicist, and an innocent. Before long Carolyn is trying to protect her two teenaged kids, Daniel, and herself from people that want them dead. She is befriended by a physicist professor and relies heavily on her physics-loving son. There seems to be a trend going here......
There were two things I didn't enjoy about this book. The protagonist...I just couldn't like her, no matter how hard I tried. And the reader, I couldn't stand the way she read the different voices. She made Daniel sound like a low-IQ'd mental deficient. She made Carolyn sound incredibly goody-goody, which may have exacerbated that attribute even more than it should have in my mind, which may definitely add to the reason I didn't like her.
The story dragged on and on....and on, then the ending was neatly tied up in a few short pages. WHY do some authors do this? When compared to the writers of this genre that I really love, Connelly, Crais, Coben, Grafton, etc., there is simply no comparison. Perhaps if I read the book instead of listening to it I wouldn't feel quite so strongly, but I can't imagine reading it unless I have a true book emergency. It was a long couple of weeks listening to this...but I never gave up. I wish I had.
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