Saving Noah

De: Lucinda Berry

Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie

Meet Noah - an A-honor-roll student, award-winning swimmer, and small-town star destined for greatness. There weren't any signs that something was wrong until the day he confesses to molesting little girls during swim-team practice. He's sentenced to 18 months in a juvenile sexual-rehabilitation center.

His mother, Adrianne, refuses to turn her back on him despite his horrific crimes, but her husband won't allow Noah back into their home. In a series of shocking and shattering revelations, Adrianne is forced to make the hardest decision of her life. Just how far will she go to protect her son?

Saving Noah challenges everything you think you know about teenage sexual offenders. It will keep you up at night long after you've finished, questioning beliefs you once thought were true.

©2017 Lucinda Berry (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Spoiler alert

Having worked with registered sex offenders for over 20 years, the mother in this story is WHO NOT to be!! Reason who people reoffend…enabling. As a mother I get love but this character is not what a mother should be.

Really intense story...

There's only one change I would make, and I wish someone had told me this before reading it....

My advice to anyone who listens to this (and to the author, who has several other books I enjoyed):


The last chapter and the Epilogue should be switched. If you're about to listen to this, as soon as you get to chapter 29, stop the book and skip to the epilogue, (chapter 30) Then go back and listen to the final chapter as chapter 29.

Trust me - it's a MUCH more powerful punch of an ending that way. The way it is now it just trails off, when instead, it would smack you in the heart and head the other way around.

After Ch 29, I expected the epilogue/Ch 30 to have some hint of * SPOILER AHEAD * SPOILER AHEAD * SPOILER AHEAD * Ok, that's 3 chances not to read the next line. Seriously stop reading this review now if you don't want a spoiler: I wish the final epilogue was spoken by K about L having done something to her, or that we find out from L's part that during the time the family was split up, L admitted that he had done something while living alone with K. * SPOILER OVER * SPOILER OVER * SPOILER OVER.

vile but intriguing

This blew me away. I had a very small understanding of the plot but mostly went in blind. This was gripping and terrible and I did not want to stop!

Slow beginning, then couldn’t stop listening

This gives us so much to think about. It takes a different view on a very important decision.

Wow !!!!

I really love this author ! I had this book saved on my TBR list for a while and finally decided to start listening at 8 pm last night . I stayed up all night listening to this book . It’s sad, dark, sick, twisted and yet it helped me understand the POV of all characters involved. 100% would recommend this book