I bought this because it was on sale. I thought it was going to be kinda silly. It actually wasn't bad at all. It was a nice little thriller that kept my interest. A nice in between listen.

So, we have a main character that is lazy, self centered and mooching off her husband while she ignored her kid by having a baby sitter daily. And people found this woman likable? By the end of the third chapter, I was wishing she'd get eaten alive and let her husband and child have a new decent person in their lives. Ben, if you can't write female protagonists that aren't needy and useless, perhaps you shouldn't try.

I was sure that she didn't really have bedbugs. I was sure she was just crazy. I had a bedbug scare a few years ago that turned out to be eczema.
Boy was I wrong about her situation. DAYUM!

The hammer

She had very distinctive changes in voice for each character, including accents.

Not until the end. At first I was too stressed to listen for very long; feeling Sue's anxiety and stress. Then I got to the point where I had to listen to find out if she'd be okay

A nice, judging book by it's cover, find.

It is so difficult to find a good, original, scary story. For those of us who have exhausted the Audible collection of Stephen King and Joe Hill and cannot tolerate Dean Koontz, this is a great book. It has actually been a while since I read this, but I remember it fondly. The people to whom I have recommended this book agree that it is a great,frightening book that is especially eerie to the urban dweller.

If you're sick of Stephen King's books which now seem long on the characterization and short on the chills (or it always ends up being aliens!) this is a great alternative. It's not overly long and weaves a good tale that nicely creepy for Halloween. I really enjoyed this!

It's difficult to scare me with a book. In fact, there's just one that's kept me awake nights and made me wonder what might be hiding in the dark space under my bed. This one didn't even come close, though it turned into a decent thriller in the last couple of hours.

Inspired by recent troubles in New York City, Bedbugs is just too familiar. An ordinary family moves into a too-good-to-be-true apartment and one of them--in this case, the wife, Susan--begins to suspect something is not quite right about their new home. Strange facts about the place's history come to light. Worry turns to paranoia and then to apparent insanity. I can think of a half dozen similar stories. The ending offers some excitement, though; I admit I didn't guess correctly who/what was behind it all, and the family's fate seemed in doubt at several points.

Technically, the recording is perfect: no awkward cuts, missing words or sentences, etc. And the narrator does an excellent job. It just wasn't scary or original enough for me.

Sadly, Bedbugs is a great idea that never quite takes off, in my opinion. This is the stuff low budget Sci-Fi Channel movies are made of...wholly cliche and predictable. Just when I would think the story was about to take some mind-boggling, Lovecraftian turn, the author would abandon ship and slide back into the same dog-eared script shows like the X-Files, the Outer Limits, and the Twilight Zone made so predictable. Don't get me wrong, Bedbugs is well written and narrated with equal polish. There is even a moment or two of brilliance. However, in the end,Bedbug falls way short of its mark.

If you're really starving for an excellent non-cliche story about rampaging killer bugs, Check out "Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson.

Ultimately, a great idea executed poorly. The story drags too long in the beginning, builds to a fair boil by the middle and, just when you think you're in store for supernatural greatness, our protagonist goes from a compost heap to a hospital room. By the end,I swear I could hear the Sci-Fi Channel director yell, "Cut! That's a wrap!"

This is a very today version of Night Gallery, Amityville Horror, Rosemary's Baby and The Tell Tell Heart.

It is more then just about a bug infestation. At times you will wonder if there are bugs, what is in the basement, is the main character going crazy, why does the husband not like the landlady, how far is the main character going to go? It is a scary story with several twists that you will not see coming. I found it very entertaining and scary.

I am surprised no reviewers have mentioned the main character. I guess because it is politically incorrect. The main character is a woman, who is married and has a baby girl. She talks her husband into letting her quit her well paid job at a law firm, so she can paint. Then months go buy and she never paints a stroke. They continue to pay $400 a week in child care for the little girl. The husband does the cooking and he is very understanding and never lays a guilt trip on her. She insists that they need a bigger a apartment, even though it will be more expensive then what they already are renting. The only have sex about every other week and the husband is loyal. This guy needs to grow some balls.

Even though I did not like the main character, I still loved the story. This is story has enough elements in it that some well known writers would have stretched it out into a lot longer book, I appreciate the brevity.

I almost knocked off a star on the narrator, as I thought maybe she played the child too irritating. The kid sounds pretty spoiled the way she reads it and I am not sure that is how it was written, but considering the wife, maybe so.

I think I wanted this story to be something it wasn't. The narration was quite good, which made it easy to finish, despite not enjoying the story. I think I wanted the story to be more gripping, about 'something'. I was very disappointed in the ending.

....just creepy-crawly.....Being a fan of horror books I decided to give this one a try.....it wasn't scary but when the bugs were biting and doing the creepy-crawly stuff they do.......it did kinda get under my skin. It wasn't hard to figure out the bad guy in the story and it was a fairly straight forward 'seen it before' horror story. Would I recommend it to others.....if you can deal with hearing the word 'bedbugs' at least 5,453 times and enjoy listening to someone go mad from being tormented by nasty little bugs......then SURE....go for it and ENJOY!!!