Follow the Crow

Vanished, Book 1

By: B. B. Griffith

Narrated by: Paul L. Coffey, Kirsten Leigh, Ryan Jordan McCarthy

Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins

Publisher's summary

Ben Dejooli is a Navajo cop who can't escape his past. Six years ago his little sister Ana vanished without a trace. His best friend saw what happened, but he refuses to speak of what he knows, and so was banished from the Navajo tribe. That was the day the crows started following Ben.

Caroline Adams is a nurse with a special talent: She sees things others can’t see. She knows that Ben is more than he seems, and that the crows are trying to tell him something.

What the crows know will shed new light on the mystery of Ana’s disappearance, and throw Ben and Caroline into a race against time to find out what happened before they end up vanishing just like she did.

©2019 Griffith Publishing (P)2020 Griffith Publishing

the annoying, overdone voice performance ruins a decent storyline

The annoying voice performance ruins an otherwise decent storyline. Overdone and over acted. Not sure I can tolerate it long enough to finish the story.

Good Listen

Chracters were believable and had depth. Story was intriguing and engaging. Great for a long road trip.

Narration?

Enjoyed the story. After living on Navaho for a while, would have enjoyed a Navajo accent to the Ben part rather than the generic rather eastern one provided.

Not What I Expected

I had expected this to be centered with the Navaho and to be metaphysical or mystical, but it is actually closer to fantasy. The writing is good, if a bit simplistic at times, the scene in New York was very quick, there you go, as if it was just thrown in to correct the arc if the story.

Multiple narrators, both in the story and doing the audible, can often cause problems, but it didn’t bother me here.

I will give the next book a try. Hey, I am sheltering in place because of CoVid19 so what the heck.

Excellent read

I have always enjoyed paranormal types of books. This one hit the mark especially by including Indian lore. I look forward to vanishing 2

Love it and want more of the same

Will read it or listen to it again. will purchase more of the same from the Author

Crows Everywhere

Engrossing storyline with touches of Navajo magic/lore, presented by multiple 1st person internal dialogs. Easily pulling you into the follow up stories.

really well crafted

The story is really good with reality and the mystical functioning together seamlessly. and the construction was well thought out. This was one I couldn't wait to get back in the car to listen to.
Also, good narration.

Good story, but flawed by narrator and vision

This was an interesting story, and I did eventually get hooked to the point that I want to read the next book. But there were some flaws that were hard to overlook. The first being that the narrator for one of the main characters, Ben, was clearly a white person. The Narrator should have been Navajo or at least a Native American to make him more believable. I absolutely flinched everytime this narrator mispronounced the word "Hogan". He even mispronounces "Navajo", in a way no Navajo would say it. This implies that the author, or narrator, really doesn't know their subject matter as much as they should.
I did enjoy the female narrators. Although there seemed to be an attempt to represent Navajo culture, throughout this fictional story, I thought parts of this were very distorted and may give people the wrong impression. If you are going to talk about a particular culture and people you should at least do enough research to get the information accurate. There have been a number of authors who have done this successfully. I have a deep respect for Native American and especially Navajo culture and I was disappointed that there didn't appear to be enough respect to portray this accurately. Because of this I have to give this book a very mixed review.

Pedestrian writing

Pretty good story until the lady few chapters. Very hard to engage. Feels like the author is trying to appropriate Navajo culture. No authentic feel to it.