The Broken Room

De: Peter Clines

Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon

“Absolutely brilliant!” (Jonathan Maberry, New York Times best-selling author)

The new supernatural thriller from New York Times best-selling author Peter Clines

You can still owe the dead.

Hector was the best of the best. A government operative who could bring armies to a halt and nations to their knees. But when his own country betrayed him, he dropped off the grid and picked up the first of many bottles.

Natalie can’t remember much of her life before her family brought her to the US, but she remembers the cages. And getting taken away to the Project with dozens of other young children to become part of their nightmarish experiments. That’s how she ended up with the ghost of a dead secret agent stuck in her head.

And Hector owes Natalie’s ghost a big favor.

Now Hector and Natalie are on the run from an army of killers sent to retrieve her. Because the people behind the Project are willing to risk almost anything to get Natalie back and complete their experiments.

©2022 Peter Clines (P)2022 Audible, Inc.

Boring!

I’m a fan of Clines work so I stuck with the story until the end but there wasn’t much to the plot. Lots of vomiting though!

Awful. Narrator underacted.

I am a Peter Clines fan. When I hear that he's coming out with a new book, I purchase it, sight unseen.

So, I was super excited when I found out that he was coming out with the broken room on March 1st; couldn't wait to get my hands on it.

Started out great; really created a great mystery. And it all went south from there.

The book felt like it was written over a weekend and had yet to complete the second and third draft. But, there was no second or third draft. Only unfinished first draft. So, there's that.

Additionally,. They were scenes that were completely pointless and unnecessary especially if they were intended to help move the story along. An example would be the scene at the gas station. Awful! That alone led me to believe it was a 200-page book that the author was determined to make into a 300-page book.

I listened to this book and let's just say that the narration was terrible. The narrator underacted the most dramatic points of the book and completely destroyed any sense of suspense and drama.


Needless to say I was extremely disappointed in this book.

As always, intense and imaginative!

Threshold Universe adjacent?
Although this fascinating "Lone Wolf and Cub"-ish story stands perfectly by itself, it includes a good amount of the author's signature otherworldly creepiness!

I love PCs books!!

Anytime one comes out I use as a break up for a long series books and I’m never disappointed!!!

Great “Threshold” story

Great story, well told. Mr. Pabon does need to learn how to pronounce “corpsman” though. Would listen again.

just ok

it definitely had some interesting ideas, but it wasnt for me. probably unfair since my expectations of peter are so high

Outstanding story and performance highly recommended.

Another amazing story by Peter. Thoroughly enjoyable and full of unusual twists. Not at all predictable. It’s obvious that he has done research, and it saddens me to think that he had to tone down the description of the US Mexican border.

The Last of Us meets Stranger Things

Imagine Joel from Last of Us had the skill set of John Wick and was chaperoning Eleven from Stranger Things. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Grody to the max!

Good writing, entertaining story. Excellent performance. Not for sensitive stomachs however.
Willing suspension of disbelief required less for the sci-fi aspects than some of the real-world stuff, of perhaps that’s my naïveté. The situation at the border is worse even. Gets a little preachy on regional racism but overall good story.

Fun Read

Reading this book was like binging my favorite Netflix-type show. Once you get engaged, the book was hard to put down. It was fun, well-written, and action-packed with interesting characters and dialog. I recommend this book...just relax and have fun.