Don't Kiss Them Good-Bye

By: Allison DuBois

Narrated by: Allison DuBois

Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins

Publisher's summary

Her visions have helped solve crimes; her instincts have helped find missing people; she can predict future events and sense your thoughts. These are some of the extraordinary gifts that define the remarkable Allison DuBois, the real-life medium, wife, and mother whose life is the inspiration for the hit NBC television series Medium.

When she was six years old, Allison's deceased great-grandfather came to her with a message for her mother: "I am okay, I am still with you. Tell your mom there's no pain." Allison shared his comforting words with her mother and thus began a lifetime of creating connections between loved ones and those they have lost. The purpose of her gifts became clear when Allison worked as an intern in the homicide bureau of the district attorney's office and found that she visualized the crime as she handled the evidence. Allison now works as a profiler on criminal investigations.

In this stunning audiobook, Allison shares fascinating stories of her encounters with people who have passed and her adventures as a profiler for various law enforcement organizations. With wit and compassion, Allison shows us what it is like to live with these special gifts and talents and also tells about her struggle to live a normal life as a devoted wife and mother.

If you have ever questioned whether there is an afterlife, this audiobook will help you see that there is a living energy beyond death.

©2004 Allison DuBois (P)2005 Simon & Schuster Inc. AUDIOWORKS is an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster, Inc.

No Emotion

I wanted to like this audio book but couldn't even get halfway through. The author read in such a monotone voice I could hardly stand it. Some emotion and inflection would be appreciated.

IT STINKS

The worst audiobook EVER produced. A good reader might have at least made the pedantic and boring storyline listenable, but this is total garbage even as fiction. 🤢

not good

Would you try another book from Allison DuBois and/or Allison DuBois?

maybe

Would you be willing to try another one of Allison DuBois’s performances?

no

Any additional comments?

this narrator has no personality. she gives the impression she is only reading words not hearing them or knowing what the book is about - and she is THE AUTHOR. I've put more warmth and excitement into reading a spelling test list for my kids!

Don't Kiss Them Good-Bye

It's time someone thought to discourage some authors from reading their own books. There is a reason there are professional readers. I didn't buy this book because, listening to the sample, I knew I would not be able to listen to the reader's voice for a long period of time. The material itself sounded interesting. Please re-issue it with a different reader!

Not recommended.. at all.

"Don't Kiss Them Good-Bye" was more of a "how to" book and less of a true memoir than I expected. I was irritated by her suggestions about how to make it easier for the psychic kids in my life. I understand her desire to help other people who have "the gift", but her intentions might have been better served as a post-script or introduction -- something separate from the memoir itself. Intertwining the two made it impossible to get lost in the narrative.

The narrative itself was also problematic. It actually sounded too much like somone writing a high school English class essay for my taste. The flow was stilted, the voice was prosaic, and the descriptions were often repetitive and obvious.

Like other reviewers, I was bothered by the author/narrator's monotone, but I could have gotten through it if her writing were better. As it is, Ms. Dubois' writing style is sophomoric at best. She could use a good editor or perhaps a good ghost writer.

If you're looking for a really well written memoir, I'd suggest David Sedaris or Sarah Vowell. Allison Dubois may have an interesting story, but she doesn't have a clue how to tell it.

meh

Well, Allison may have a gift.....but it isn't writing. Or reading for that matter. I am only 2/3 of the way through this one and I'm not sure if I'll be able to finish it. I am going to listen to something else and maybe I'll come back to it. Her voice drives me nuts. And the material is so repetetive. Ugh.

Made me lose interest in psychics

Any additional comments?

I managed to overcome the negative vibes associated with the reviews of this audiobook written and (unfortunately) narrated by Allison DuBois - the real person on whom the TV series Medium was based. I have always had a thing for psychics but this book may have succeeded in killing that interest at least for the time being. The critics were correct she is a god awful narrator with a flat and whiny voice, who sounds like she's never seen the material before, let alone written it. But I could probably get passed that if the book were better. It is just a series of chapters either about her or about mediums/psychics in general. A few of these were mildly interesting but for starters I am way more interested in psychics than mediums and mediums are more her thing. But even for someone interested enough to explore the topic, this stretched the thing too far. She had chapters about what parents should do if they think their child is a medium (really, we need a handbook on that?) I have always wanted an interesting book of criminal cases in which psychics had valuable involvement. I have never found this book. And rather than encourage my belief is these things, this author has made me doubt that such a thing could even exist. It was a disappointing experience.

Disappointing

I was looking forward to this book and have been reading up on the topic lately. Unfortunately the writing style is extremely poor and the narration is one of the worst audible's I've heard -Allison should not have read her own book. Several parts of the book were interesting when Allison explains her gift and experiences helping people however these gems are few and far between. Allison jumps around a lot and spend much of the book offering random advice on a multitude of everyday topics.

She should have splurged on a Narrator.

I couldn't even finish it. I read the book and it was ok but that was after I tried to listen to it. All I could hear when I read it was Allison DuBois' nasally voice haunting me.