• The Vacation

  • By: John Marrs
  • Narrated by: Peter Noble
  • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (213 ratings)

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The Vacation

By: John Marrs
Narrated by: Peter Noble
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Publisher's summary

For eight strangers in a Los Angeles hostel, even the other side of the world isn’t far enough. The craving for a new identity and the desire to start again is something they have in common. But they discover that it doesn't matter where you are or who you are - if you can't lay the past to rest, fate and coincidence have a way of catching up with you.

©2015 John Marrs (P)2018 W F Howes Ltd

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Incredible

John Marrs is fantastic at creating multiple characters and story lines and artfully tying it all together. Wonderful.

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Absolutely loved it

This book was fantastic start to finish. Worth the credit. Lots of twists and turns . All very well brought together

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Twist and Turns

Loved the story. Full of multiple twists and turns you never see coming. Narrator did well doing different voices for each character.

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Not my favorite by the author

I felt like I spent the first 1/3 of the book trying to keep straight in my mind all the characters and all their multiple time lines. It came together in the end though and made sense while it was all over. Good book, I feel like everything I’ve read of his is good.

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Decent

So much going on- and what a web we weave as humans!! FYI to the narrator, Southerners don’t say AGAIN like (A-Gay-ne), we say it like (A-Gin). I’m from Alabama and NO ONE here talks like that. That’s from the old South, from around 100 years ago.

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Fantastic Book

I loved this book from the brilliant story teller, John Marrs, and narrated beautifully by Peter Noble. I think Marrs' unique books are amongst the best of his generation, if you're into interesting characters, imaginative plots with plenty of unexpected twists and turns, then you must read or listen to this book; one of the best.

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DNF

Like a Dot to dot done by a tweaker, all over the place, hard to keep up with. Unable to finish, wasn't for me.

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Amazing book!! My favorite John Marrs!

Wow, just wow. I thought The Passengers was my favorite John Marrs - Author book but this one blew me away. In the beginning there are many characters to keep track of, but that just means there’s a ton of twist and turns that will blow you away. Starts out slow. Keep with it. You won’t regret it!

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i didn't see that coming a great book, fun full of

twist and turns. first book I've read from this author, excited for the next. yea

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Another great Marrs book

Took me a minute to keep characters straight, but loved how their stories wove together.....lost and broken souls finding their way intermixed with a few unsavory sorts. Peter Noble narration 5 star.

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