A Density of Souls

De: Christopher Rice

Narrado por: James Daniels

Four high-school students in present-day New Orleans are torn apart by envy, passion, and tragedy.

Meredith, Brandon, Greg, and Stephen quickly discover the fragile boundaries between friendship and betrayal as they enter high school and form new alliances. Brandon and Greg gain popularity as football jocks, and Meredith joins the bulimic in-crowd, while Stephen becomes the target of homophobia in a school that viciously mocks him. Then, two violent deaths disrupt the core of what they once shared.

Five years later, the friends are drawn back together as new facts about their mutual history are revealed, and what was held to be a tragic accident is discovered to be murder. As the true story emerges, other secrets begin to unravel and the casual cruelties of high school develop into acts of violence that threaten an entire city.

A Density of Souls is a stunning debut novel that lays bare the darker side of the teenage experience in modern-day America.

©2000 Christopher Rice (P)2004 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

one of my all-time faves

the reader brought this favorite title to life for me yet again just as I remembered

Everyone has their ghosts.

A thoroughly gripping coming of age story, brilliantly laid out across a haunted New Orleans.

Gut wrenching, erotic, soft, terrifying and tragic, sometimes all at once.

Good.

Overall, just as good as in authored book form. Wonderful, really. Fluid narration at 1.25x speed.

Strange and Disturbing

This book is strange, violent, and quite disturbing, with so many different characters it was difficult to keep track of them all. I listened through to the end but, after a point, I was very ready for it to be over! Narrator’s performance ranges from okay to mildly annoying.

Fantastic story! Definitely a re-read!

Loved the book the first time around. Loved the audiobook as well. My only complaint is that I wish the person narrating the audiobook pronounced New Orleans property. It's pronounced New Oar-linz, not New Oar-leans!

a good listen

although I found his writting style initially challenging in the end it was overall enjoyable. it is very different from his mothers and uniquely his own. the story was good with unexpected twists though I felt it jumped around a bit more than I tend to like. I was left wanting more information in the end however a can't honestly say that is a negative. definitely a good choice if your looking for a unique style of writting, overall story line was captivating. perhaps I'm underrating but being left wanting more and unaccustomed to the style gives it 4 stars all the way around.

My Favorite

I read this book for the first time when I was 17 & coming of age. It broadened my horizons and I fell in love with Christopher Rices books from then on. This is the first time listening to the book instead of reading and it brought back all the feelings and memories from when I first read it.
Such a great story and pacing of what HS and post college life felt like in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. This will always be my go to book for nostalgia and happy memories of a life more simpler.

A gripping storyline.

Fast paced plot and good character development. When it WS finished it left me wanting more. This was a story that captures full attention..

Help me survive my teens best of all time!

I can’t even explain the emotions this book brought out of me when I was younger! I felt like I was Christopher! So much happens in a short period of time! The pros are truly remarkable! I would re read this book over & over W/ circa survive playing in the background & just cry! My book was so highlighted and worn because when I was sad I would just open it up and it’s like god would point me to the place I needed to read! This novel has EVERYTHING & if ur gay even straight, but for sure gay & have never read this book!! Please do yourself a favor! If u have a teen son who is gay! Get them this audible or book! It will help them in ways u will never understand! If u r older remember how u felt in those high school days! Especially with a boy who was straight! That u couldn’t have! I just could never thank the author enough for this novel! And all the ppl he has touched w/ it! And that last page will send a shock thru ur body like nothing has before! I read all the time & I have still never read a last page that has come close to the ending of this book! You will NEVER get it out of ur head! & it would really make u wonder what u would do in that situation!

dark look

a density of souls
by Christopher Rice
narrated by James Daniel's

a dark story set in New Orleans, before the hurricane.
four friends find that growing up divides them with small things. the secrets they keep, that devide them to the core. this brings a violent laten behavior that the storm lightens and brings to bear in a violent ending.