Auditory Viewpoint

By: Lillian R. Melendez

Narrated by: Tim Alexander

Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

Gloria Rank has lived her entire life in the dark. Blind since birth, she has made a name for herself as a respected talk radio show host in New Jersey. When her younger sister, Anna, has her identity stolen and a man is murdered outside her apartment, Anna becomes the prime suspect in an FBI investigation. But when bodies begin piling up around her, the FBI has to admit that she is being stalked by a murderer.

With the FBI focused in the wrong direction, it is up to Gloria to teach Anna to use her other senses - hearing, touch, taste, and smell - which she never really had to completely rely on before to help uncover a ring of identity thieves and stop the killer from taking her life, and perhaps Gloria's as well! Their only hope for survival is an experiment in perception that will unearth heartbreaking secrets and catapult Gloria into a darkness of the heart beyond any that she has ever known

©2013, 2016 Lillian R. Melendez (P)2021 Lillian R. Melendez

If you like lifetime movies it will keep your aunt

When a blind Radio house sister it’s a victim of identity fraud and dead bodies keep piling up around her. She tries to teach your sister how to use her other senses to stay safe. Being blind I knew from the summary it wasn’t going to be an accurate depiction of a blind person, because when you were totally blind you say nothing and in the summary itself she grew up in the dark. Totally blind people can see the same everyone else can see when looking out of their elbow which is nothing. Having said that I still listen to the book and found it interesting and although I found myself not liking Anna that much I still felt bad for her for all the trouble that was happening and she had caused none of it. There were things I didn’t understand in the book though like one and I heard the security guard fighting outside of her hotel room why didn’t she call the police? She said she didn’t know who she could trust, but she didn’t live in an old Western town where you couldn’t trust the local sheriff there were a few other instances but I also didn’t make sense, but it would take up too much space to write them all down here. Having said that this book was like a lifetime movie or a Hallmark movie if they had detective stories. There’s not much there to the characters, but can still be worth listening to. I thought the narrator did an awesome job and really enjoyed the narration. If you have time to kill this is a good book to do it with as I said it is interesting it’s just not that involved.

Protect your identity.

A good story, but a little far fetched. A blind girl teaches her sister and friends how to use all five senses to catch identity thieves and even a killer. The participation of the police was not realistic at all. I did learn alot about protecting my identity and how to better use my five senses.
I was gifted an Audible version of this book from the author through Story Origin.
I didn't feel much connection or emotion for these characters. The narrator read the story more than acted it out.

Auditory Viewpoint

An interesting premise… a blind woman uses her other senses, and teaches others to use their other senses, to foil a group of hackers. She is also trying to save her sister from an unknown assailant.

I like the concept that Lillian R. Melendez has come up with. I just think the story could do with a little more polish. The interactions, especially with law enforcement just weren’t believable as written. Still, the overall story is interesting.

Tim Alexander did an ok job presenting the story. I felt like it was more of a reading instead of a performance, and that may have been due to the writing style.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and I have voluntarily left this review.

Different Premise

Pretty good audiobook, Talk about a captivating story. And it only leaves you wanting more. Has you on the edge of your seat and never lets go of your anxiety. The narrating by Tim Alexander was good. I received this audiobook in exchange for my review.

Baskerville Book Reviews

This book didn’t leave much of a lasting impression on me. It’s one of those mystery novels that tries to juggle multiple stories but does so poorly.

Gloria goes on the run with her sister to avoid somebody who is clearly trying to do her sister harm. Meanwhile, it’s around the time of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and a group of hackers is trying to commit identity theft. Good old super-hearing Gloria can’t help but overhear hackers loudly talking into the phone in public about their plans everywhere she goes.

Somehow there’s always a cop within reach who believes her story about the hackers trying to steal people’s identities. So they go up to random strangers and request to search them based on the accusations of some woman they just met.

Nothing about the story seems the least bit believable.

The narrator is just awful. He does a good job of reading the story, but that’s it. The majority of the time, he reads every single character with the same boring tone of voice. Every now and then, he’ll give a character personality. But sometimes characters voices, tones, inflection or accents will change randomly. So it’s often difficult to tell who is even talking.

The audiobook itself isn’t much better. A large percentage of Audible books seem to have issues with dialogue repeating or echoes. This book has more than any other story I’ve listened to. They’re often lumped together. If you hear the same line twice, changes are a few minutes later, it will happen again.

After reading 50+ books in 2 1/2 months, my standard for what I call a bad book has changed. This book isn’t terrible, but I’m not going to be listening to or reading it ever again.

NOTE: This copy was provided to me free of charge as a digital review copy. The opinions stated in this review are mine and mine alone, I was not paid or requested to give this book a certain rating, suggestion, or approval.