Mr. Write

They say you can’t go home again…When Tucker Pettigrew returns to Sweetwater, South Carolina after a thirty year absence, he knows that his reappearance will stir the town pot. The sole grandson of the most powerful man in town, Tucker wants to understand why his recently deceased mother fled Sweetwater all those years ago with little more than the clothes on their backs. What he discovers will rock not only his own foundation, but that of the town itself.Sarah Barnwell is a woman with her own ghosts to face, and they’re there to greet her on her first night back in town. The bully who made her already rocky childhood a kind of living hell is all grown up now, but he still has Sarah in his sites.At first antagonistic, Sarah and Tucker eventually realize that a shared property line isn’t all they have in common. And that roots, whether the plant be beautiful or deadly, run deeper than you think.

An Excellent Story Ruined by Bad Narration

This is not a review of the actual story, it is a review of the production only. I love Lisa Clark O’Neill’s books and have read most of them. I downloaded the audible version and was very disappointed in the narration which was performed by Audible’s Virtual Voice. If I hadn’t read the book first and known how good this book is, then this audible production would have put me off the story all together. As it was I got about a third of the way through listening to the book then gave up. There are no different voice tones for the different characters so you can’t tell when it’s another character talking. If there is a hyphen in the writing Virtual Voice says “dash”. There are a few more oddities which I found really distracting. I’m sorry Audible I won’t be purchasing any more books that have Virtual Voice narration until there is an improvement in the quality of the narration.