Sleep No More

Eve Duncan, Book 15

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan knows what it’s like to be haunted by the past. For years after her daughter, Bonnie, was stolen from her, she fought for closure. When her mother, Sandra, asks Eve to find a missing friend named Beth Avery, she wants to help but is sure that Sandra is hiding something. The fact that she adamantly refuses to go to the police reinforces Eve’s suspicions that something is very wrong.

Eve learns that Beth has been locked away in a mental hospital for years, which makes it even harder to understand how she could have disappeared. As Sandra reluctantly reveals small pieces of the truth about Beth’s identity, Eve is shocked to discover that their lives are strangely entwined, and Beth’s disappearance now puts them all in grave danger.

Desperate, Eve enlists a secret weapon to pick up Beth’s trail: rogue profiler Kendra Michaels. With an uncanny ability to detect clues and solve puzzles, Kendra begins to uncover the bizarre circumstances of Beth’s escape from what should have been the safety of her hospital room. Beth is on the run, and as her mind clears - detoxing from the drugs that have held her prisoner - she begins to see the threads of a twisted plot within the powerful Avery family, threatening to destroy her and anyone else who might jeopardize the high-stakes game that is already in play.

©2012 Iris Johansen (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Couldn’t get past the narrator

I know we have gone through a number of narrator switches over time but I’ve liked them all. This new one is awful. She it terrible as doing accents and male voices. Her female voice grates on me. She makes Eve sound like she lacks depth. I was devastated to see that te rest of the books are narrated by her. I have a little one so audiobooks are easier than paperbacks. I’m torn between quitting the series altogether and suffering through the rest. It’s miserable.

Amateurish Writing

I was surprised that such a renown author would produce such amateurish work. Where do I begin?

Conversations between characters were unrealistic: everyone always automatically ‘knew’ what the other person was thinking without any real rationale and the other person would always confirm that they were correct. All of the “good” characters had the same personalities: defensive, rude & exaggerated versions of themselves. They all used the same speech patterns and phrases. All of the “bad” characters were similarly the same: unprovoked demeaning and threatening, all the time, regardless of their level of power in the food chain.

Characters (good and bad) all ‘confessed’ too easily. The ending was weak, stretching credulity.

In short, one would expect this level of work from a junior or senior high school writing class. The narration was nothing to write home about but in her defense, she really didn’t have much to work with.

Don't waste your time

The story line was so horrible and the narrator made the characters even more boring. After following these characters through the series of books it was really hard for me to accept that she made Eve this stupid. I didn't even finish listening to it, by part two I was hoping the killer would get all of them. It was a lot of whining, angry, people doing stupid things. Don't waste your time on this snoozer.