Lost and Found

By: Amy Shojai

Narrated by: Amy Shojai

Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

An autism cure will kill millions unless a service dog and his trainer find a missing child...in 24 hours.

An auntsearches for her lost nephew - and dooms her sister.

A mom gambles a miracle will cure - and not kill - her child.

A dog finds his true purpose - when he disobeys.

Animal behaviorist September Day has lost everything - husband murdered, career in ruins, confidence shot - and returns home with her trained Maine Coon cat, Macy, to Texas to recover. She's forced out of hibernation when her nephew Steven and his autism service dog Shadow disappear in a freak blizzard. When her sister trusts a maverick researcher's promise to help Steven, September has 24 hours to rescue them from a devastating medical experiment impacting millions of children, a deadly secret others will kill to protect. As September races the clock, the body count swells. Shadow does his good-dog duty but can't protect his boy. Finally September and Shadow forge a stormy partnership to rescue the missing and stop the nightmare cure. But can they also find the lost parts of themselves?

©2012 Amy Shojai (P)2012 Amy Shojai

Hire a good narrator

I am only 1/4 way through this book. I had to stop long enough to say how awful the narration is by the author. Her regular voice is fine but her attempts at other voices are distracting and horrible. Most of them sound old and decrepit, or mentally disabled. I'm going to finish the story but with gritted teeth!!

Lost and Found

Any additional comments?

I read the book when it first came out so I didn't know if I would like this version. It turned out I certainly did. Hearing the author read her book gave it a whole new dimension. It is a great story and I am looking forward to the next one. A problem I didn't expect is whether to read it or listen to it. I may do both.

Excellent book

The narrator was terrible. She needs a professional narrator. Voices were not believable at all. The book was excellent the only reason I finished listening to it was the story line. I will read the rest of this series but not listen.

The value of life!

I enjoyed the story written by Amy Shojai. The story was filled with good details, mystery, intrigue, and plenty of twist and turns throughout the story. I love that she included dogs in her story that are trained to find people. This was a well thought of story and I enjoyed it immensely.

I was surprised that the author did the narration as well. She did a magnificent job with the telling of her story. I enjoyed the characters accents, especially Pam's voice. I was able to recognize each character with the distinguishing accents she gave them. She brought this story to life and I would love to hear more stories that she's narrated, even if they're not her own. I received this audio in exchange for an honest review.

Riveting, Believable, Hungry!

Didn't know the writer but she grabbed me from the first chapter! Characters and situations are real life identifiers with me because I have a grandson with autism and totally love and support service animals! Hungry, you ask - what has that got to do with this story? It gave me a craving for more of her books! And I have shared her name , blog and website with friends and family since we are a bunch of diehard readers! Thanks, Amy, for writing stories that draw us in and make us feel we are right there in the snow, the searches and delightful ending!

Dog, Man's best friend

What did you love best about Lost and Found?

I liked the theme of a lost autistic child.

Has Lost and Found turned you off from other books in this genre?

Slow moving. Had so much more potential.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Amy Shojai?

John Gully, Lakeside CA jonnyvot

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No

It was good but

Very good story line but too much blithering going on and not much action for me.

Worth the time

Without having read or listened to any of Amy Shojai’s books, I binged listened to it. I just could not figure it out! And to see a story from an animal’s point of view was just the twist I needed to believe in Shadow.

great thriller ... dog lover or not

Any additional comments?

I have recieved this audiobook in exchange for an unbiased review.

I am very suprised that this audiobook has been hiddden away, I have never heard of the author before.I can see that she has written lots of non fiction books about dog and cat behavior .
So it's rather unusaul that she is able to write such a competant thriller(fiction). Obviously the backgroud story is her field of expertise, and this is very clear throughout the book.

Even if you are not interested in dogs ,or their behavior, this one has a lot more to offer, suspense throughout and an inventive and interesteing plot.

I was a bit dubious when I realised it was the author herself that narrates this book( only because of previous experience- its rare that the author does a good job of narrating books.) but Amy actually does a good job, my only (slight) critisism would be that most of her male voices sound old and croaky, but not so bad that it is annoying or a distraction.
Good Job :-)

Authors narration not good.

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

No. The author read her own book which would have been fine had she not tried to give her characters different voices. She made them sound like wimps, big dumb thugs (most of her male characters sounded like that) or just dumb. I didn't like the narration coming from the dog. Maybe the narration could have been handles some other way. It just bothered me. I do like how she came up for the name of the pets (read the epilogue to find out how she chose the names).

Would you be willing to try another book from Amy Shojai? Why or why not?

Yes. I'll read the next one instead. I would like to read her animal behavior books. I pet sit and would like to see how she does things. I get asked questions that I can sometimes answer but I am more of a cat person and all cats and dogs react differently to different things.

What aspect of Amy Shojai’s performance would you have changed?

Her character voices like when the old man is upset when he's contacting someone to save the main character. I really wanted to start yelling at him to stop being hysterical and get it together. The character voices were not my cup of tea as I have stated above. Her regular reading voice was totally fine.

Do you think Lost and Found needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

*spoiler alert* I can't say for sure. I can't get past the character voices. Truth is, most of the characters were not very likable. The babysitter, the sister, the radio station guy. Even the main character being characterized as a frump was not nice. She could have dressed in a nondescript way. Some of the bad guys were written perfectly evil (the shadow) but it was too easy for them to be evil to the good guys who were on the gullible side. If you keep the main character and the cop who turns up at the end with the mug, and leave the others out of it.