ABANDONED

A Lively Deadmarsh Novel Book 1 – Arrivals and Awakenings

By: Katie Berry

Narrated by: Alex Knox

On December 31, 1981, high atop a snowy mountain peak in the rugged interior of British Columbia, Canada, 98 beautiful people eat, drink, laugh, and dance inside the opulent grand ballroom of the Sinclair Resort Hotel.

The clock strikes 12, a cheer goes up, and the music swells; balloons drop and streamers swirl.

Then blackness....

Fifteen seconds later, the power returns and every living soul inside the ballroom has vanished, never to be seen again.

Now, 40 years later, preternatural investigator Lively Deadmarsh and his psychic twin sister, Minerva, have been brought in to solve this decades-old mystery once and for all.

Should they fail, they may become part of it, forever.

©2021 Katie Berry (P)2021 Tantor

Excellent!

I really like the writing style of Katie Berry! Eerie story with likeable characters...a real page turner...it definitely kept my interest.

So far so good....

This is a story in 4 parts, not 1 book and it's sequel(s) and if I have a complaint it's that I didn't know that going in, I had already bought 1&2 before realizing there were two more as yet unpublished volumes.
But being halfway through the story I am enjoying it. Katie's Deadmarsh Twins are enjoyable both in character and in the number of literary, pop culture, and music references they make. The mystery is intriguing, and loaded with a number of theories about quantum physics and the nature of the universe(s) but also feature some good old-fashioned spookiness. But if this book interests you my recommendation would be to wait until all 4 parts are published and take it all in one fell swoop.

Too short….

This book just stopped in the middle of the story. Most books in a series have closure for the current story but leave enough suspense to make you question if there’s more coming. And you can pick any book in the series, and they are a story-still connected-but you don’t have to purchase all the books in the series to know what’s going on. This book is an epic failure in that respect. It’s the bait-and-switch here. If you enjoyed the FREE beginning (which I did), you’re more likely to purchase the rest of the books. But likely not for me. These books are too short to spend a credit on!!

boring

This book sounded so good and had had so much promise.. But it was boring.. The narrator sounds like he could be an AI because he was so boring.. I've got nothing better to say about it. The interesting stuff didn't even happen till the last quarter maybe less.. Then it continues in the next book.. I was tempted to listen to the next one because things finally got interesting but I can't listen to this narrator anymore..

Only part of the story

Lively enough, but more like young adult fiction. Characters are just so so, but plot was better. Only part of the story so left me hanging.