Black Out

A Novel

De: Lisa Unger

Narrado por: Ann Marie Lee

When my mother named me Ophelia, she thought she was being literary. She didn’t realize she was being tragic.


On the surface, Annie Powers’s life in a wealthy Floridian suburb is happy and idyllic. Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely; together, they dote on their beautiful young daughter, Victory. But the bubble surrounding Annie is pricked when she senses that the demons of her past have resurfaced and, to her horror, are now creeping up on her. These are demons she can’t fully recall because of a highly dissociative state that allowed her to forget the tragic and violent episodes of her earlier life as Ophelia March and to start over, under the loving and protective eye of Gray, as Annie Powers. Disturbing events—the appearance of a familiar dark figure on the beach, the mysterious murder of her psychologist—trigger strange and confusing memories for Annie, who realizes she has to quickly piece them together before her past comes to claim her future and her daughter.©2008 Lisa Unger; (P)2008 Books on Tape

What Really Happened???

This story is really quite hard to figure out. With our main character seemingly having psychotic breaks and imagining a great deal of what's happening, we don't really know what's real and what's not. Did she kill Marlow or not? Did Ray Harrison exist or not? Did someone kill Dr. Brown or not? Dude, I don't know what really happened in this book or how or when, or anything, lol! I'm above average on the intelligence scale but I still couldn't figure out what the hell was going on half the time. It's all good though; I definitely can't say that the story was boring! 😉

Not for me.

I drowned in the details, struggled to finish then it left me feeling unhappy or unsatisfied.

thrill seeker

I just really enjoy the way Lisa Unger writes. She's so descriptive of her characters and she pulled me right into this book within the first chapter. I hope she pushes out another novel soon.

Surprisingly Good

I have never listened to Lisa Unger before. Never even heard of her. I bought this book because it sounded interesting and I am a fan of the narrator. I'm one of those people that like to be reeled in with the first chapter. No playing around for me. So after the first chapters of this book I was kicking myself and feeling a great sense of loss over a credit. I shut it off, not once but three times. It was slow. It was boring. It was everything I didn't want. After a week I decided to give it another try because I hadn't time to download a new one. I stuck with it and I am glad I did.
It isn't an obvious ..'Here it is' plot.. it is slowly being blended around the main character, Annie, and everyone else around her. Her background and the lives that have and still were shaping hers. I don't want to say alot. It is a story better off listened to because after awhile there are things being dropped as clues here and there. You feel sympathy for her and start getting frustrated for her. There were one or 2 places that I wish Lisa had made more elaborate but I did like the part where she found strength protecting her daughter .
This book is a good experience, even if the first few chapters are not ( for me anyway). I will definately listen to another Unger book. I don't think you will be disappointed with this one. Ann Marie Lee gave good narration. I don't understand the reviews that have negative things to say about her because I have heard way worse in some very popular novels to where I didn't turn it back on. Was well worth giving it a 4th try.

Loved loved loved this book

So intriguing loved it
Narrator was excellent I cannot wait to read more of Lisa's work