Finding Euphoria

De: C. Becker

Narrado por: Nancy Bober

Hailey Langley refuses to be a victim and has moved on from her traumatic past. But her marriage problems worsen when a deadly illicit drug threatens to draw her into the life she left behind.

Mark Langley has allowed his job to interfere with his marriage, but he never suspected the secrets in Hailey's past might hold the key to solving both of his current investigations.

Together, they must unravel the mystery of the drug called "Euphoria" and find a way to save not only their marriage, but countless lives, before it's too late.

©2019 C. Becker (P)2019 C. Becker

GREAT READ!

I absolutely loved it! This story is full of suspense, romance, drama and action. The narration is superb and gives the story that extra flair! The author did an excellent job with the character builds and plot. This was my first book by this author but definitely not my last! I look forward to reading more books from this author. I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Implausibility dooms a decent storyline

First of all: "This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review."

There were some pretty good things about this book, but overall, it was doomed by amateurish writing and premises that were too far flung even for a purported thriller. Also, it hit several of my pet peeves, including faulty medical/pharmacological information, implausible timeline, and the fact that nobody ever acted like people would actually act in a given situation.

For everyone to not know anyone at the beginning of the story, only to realize that everybody is actually super-connected by the end (including two of the main antagonists actually being two of the supposed protagonists being called by nicknames) was a bit too far-fetched. And the way that the backstory of the main protagonist was made to feel very important at the beginning only to be relegated to "hardly worth a mention" for the rest of the story also made it feel off for me.

The narration of the audiobook was generally pretty good. It made the cringe-y moments less so and overall added to the good things about the book.

With some polish and some scaling back of ideas (and a plausibility check or two), there is great potential here. I would definitely be interested in reading more by the author, to see if improvement with age and experience can improve the overall talent that I see.