Come Home

De: Lisa Scottoline

Narrado por: Maggi-Meg Reed

Lisa Scottoline has delivered taut thrillers with a powerful emotional wallop in her New York Times best-sellers Save Me, Think Twice, and Look Again. Now, with her new novel, Come Home, she ratchets up the suspense with the riveting story of a mother who sacrifices her future for a child from her past.

Jill Farrow is a typical suburban mom who has finally gotten her and her daughter's lives back on track after a divorce. She is about to remarry, her job as a pediatrician fulfills her - though it is stressful - and her daughter, Megan, is a happily overscheduled thirteen-year-old juggling homework and the swim team. But Jill’s life is turned upside down when her ex-stepdaughter, Abby, shows up on her doorstep late one night and delivers shocking news: Jill’s ex-husband is dead. Abby insists that he was murdered and pleads with Jill to help find his killer. Jill reluctantly agrees to make a few inquiries and discovers that things don’t add up. As she digs deeper, her actions threaten to rip apart her new family, destroy their hardearned happiness, and even endanger her own life. Yet Jill can’t turn her back on a child she loves and once called her own.Come Home reads with the breakneck pacing of a thriller while also exploring the definition of motherhood, asking the questions: Do you ever stop being a mother? Can you ever have an exchild? What are the limits to love of family?

©2012 Lisa Scottoline (P)2012 Macmillan Audio

Love Lisa Scottoline

Love the way it is hard to put it down. She is an awesome author

Surprised I made it past the first chapter

Horrid whining, crying and screeching narration for the first chapter. I don't know where the narrator got the idea that they had to do what they did to convey emotion- there are great narrators who emote without all that. The story was ok- just ok- I certainly wouldn't listen to it again. If you are interested I this kind of story I suggest you buy the book.

The narration was annoying and took away from the story

Too much drama from the narrator! And why does Meghan develop a lisp in the 2nd chapter?? Annoying to listen to but good story

Terrible voices

I liked the plot even with so many flaws. However, the narrator was terrible. She has no range of voices. At times she’d forget to switch voices between speaking parts.

Oh no...my ears!!!

The first 5-6 chapters of this book is non-stop crying, wailing and screeching. Like the previous reviewer, for me it was nearly intolerable. Whatever happens during this sobfest could be handled easily in one or two chapters max.

Other than the narration, the story was actually pretty good, even though I did not find the main character's controlling behavior relatable or likable at all. I guess there's a reason for all the step-children, ex-step-children, present bio child but the confusion muddied the waters for me. But then, if there weren't all these conflicting previous children of previous spouses, and all the micro-managing behavior, there would be no story.

I actually liked the main character's husband and took his side in all the arguments.

enjoyable read

Thank you for an entertaining performance and deep characters. my first book by this author.

worst kid narration i have ever heard

What did you like best about Come Home? What did you like least?

good story. The narration of the kids voices was so irritating I had to literally take the ear buds out of my ears so as not to hear.

Unlikely heroine

OK book once you wade through the oceans of tears at the beginning (tough in audio format!) and get to the plot.
I continued to struggle though with the all-heart-tiny-brain hero of the book that at EVERY decision point ignored all the sane advice of those she loved. I do prefer a much stronger female lead! If she doesn’t follow advice can she at least have a reason that is not just emotion?

Humbling story

Where does Come Home rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

One of my favorites, slowly working into my heart, reminding me of those I knew who served and suffered. Great Memorial day or Veterans Day listening.

No impressed

I usually don't write reviews but this time I felt so strongly that I should. The narrator was awful. From the start, she made the teenager in the story sound like she had cerebral palsy or Down syndrome, which she didn't. It was hard to remember that the character is a "typical" teen and the narrator's talking like she has marbles in her mouth can be very distracting.
The story line is okay, but not up to par for Scottoline. I usually like her work and this was a let-down. It was not realistic at all, not believable, and there were so many holes in the story that became annoying. Finally, there were a lot of metaphors that were so flowery and pseudo-poetic to the point that it took away from the imagery rather than adding to it. I don't know what Scottoline was trying to do but it was like she had a bunch of pretty lines from a poem and decided to sprinkle them into every other sentence of this book. It turned me off from Scottoline for a while and I will steer clear of this narrator for certain!!