When She Returned

De: Lucinda Berry

Narrado por: Coleen Marlo, Lauren Ezzo, Amy McFadden

One woman’s reappearance throws her family into turmoil, exposing dark secrets and the hidden, often devastating truth of family relationships.

Kate Bennett vanished from a parking lot eleven years ago, leaving behind her husband and young daughter. When she shows up at a Montana gas station, clutching an infant and screaming for help, investigators believe she may have been abducted by a cult.

Kate’s return flips her family’s world upside down—her husband is remarried, and her daughter barely remembers her. Kate herself doesn’t look or act like she did before.

While the family tries to help Kate reintegrate into society, they discover truths they’ve been hiding from each other about their own relationships. But they aren’t the only ones with secrets. As the family unravels what happened to Kate, a series of shocking revelations shows that Kate’s return is more sinister than any of them could have imagined.

©2019 Heather Berry (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

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I enjoyed the book. It had a lot of twists, but I wouldn’t say it was a “thriller”, at least not until the end. It was more of a mystery and family drama. The end picked up speed, though. The narration was pretty good, except one of the female narrators had very unnatural sounding “men’s “ voices.
I’m not sure why Audible keeps picking daily deals that are completely free to members of Kindle unlimited, but I guess it has saved me money... The audio version of this book is also free with kindle unlimited.

Excellent

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verything about the story was excellent. Great plot and such a strong story line. The narrator was excellent!

Wow!! Lucinda Berry does it again!

Lucinda Berry writes the most interesting, gripping, addictive stories.

Loved the three different perspectives. The narration was incredible. The narrator playing Abby should get an award for that performance.

Well done, all!

When She Returned was so intense!!!!

This suspense novel had me locked in! I have always wondered how people could be convinced to trust and believe n someone who appears to be mentally abusing them. I always assumed that person had some intense insecurities that allowed them to be manipulated so extremely as a member of a cult. This book shed some light. No one is above being deceived especially when religion is introduced and installed as the trigger.

Kate had a good, some would say great life. Loving husband, new baby, and a career. What more could she want? Kinsman-ship...a family outside of the one she and Scott created. She wanted to work with and for a purpose. And when she was assigned to interview and write a story about a organization established to help people recover from addictions, Love International planted a seed in her that would grow beyond her wildest dreams. Then she disappeared...Scott and Abby was left to learn how to live without her for 11 years praying and hoping that she was still alive and would return. When she returns now what?

I do not give spoilers in my reviews I only highlight and summarize. But this book is so well written that I have to say when she returned the plot twisted beyond recognition. (Pun intended)

Great story, character development and narration. Kindle Unlimited provided the audible along with the book and I chose to try the Audible and it did not disappoint. Colleen Mario and Laureen Ezzo really brought the characters to life. I could see every word and scene created.

Great job on this book!

Wow! This was incredible

Impossible to put down. Amazing story with an incredible ending.
Can’t wait to read more from this author.

Promising premise

This book began with such a promising premise. What if the love of your life, who you believed long dead, returned, and you were married again? Should you try to rebuild your first relationship? Especially if your first spouse was taken against their will. How should the second spouse behave? Are you still the same people you were so many years ago? I thought those would be interesting ideas to explore, but then the book turned more into a story about a cult, mental illness, and implausible turns. It was entertaining, but, in the end, disappointing.

Story, yes. Narration, no. Spoilers.

I really enjoyed the story. Go for the read, and the audiobook if you can deal with the narrators. Honestly, I’ve gotten in a really bad habit of listening to British audiobooks almost exclusively because some of these American voices are just awful to me. The clip from this one wasn’t terrible and the story sounded interesting so I went for it. I didn’t know I had the flu during the 10-hour workday I listened to this audiobook and the narration was the most painful part of my day. I’m sorry, but I hated all the narrators. Meredith was the least terrible, but they all enunciated things so strangely. Some of the other characters they voiced were good, actually, but the three main character voices drove me crazy, one in particular. SLIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD!!! .......... During time away, when everything was supposed to be shiny and wonderful, the narrator turned her voice up at the end of sentences so that she sounded skeptical. I get the story aspect, but if that was intentional, it took away from the character experience. And chest and breast sounding like “chast” and “brast” was painful and that kind of thing happened repeatedly, from all three narrators. Maybe people sound like that, I don’t know, but I’ll have a hard time listening again.

Highly Recommend

Thrilling and hard to find a stopping place. Like all good books, I kept thinking that I would listen to just a little more, then a tiny bit more...and this continued until the story ended.

I'm still having a hard time getting anything done because I'm now searching for another book by Lucinda Berry. It's the first time I've listened/read anything by her, but it won't be the last.

This was good.

The story was different, not cookie-cutter. This was solid all around, definitely worth a listen.

A different story

I give the author credit for coming up with a unique story. If was an interesting idea and executed fairly well, up to the final chapters. The last six or so were thin on details making it feel like the author didn’t quite know where she was going. The last chapter and a half proves she didn’t. The ending was very weak and poorly written. I don’t need a happy ending, but I do need it to be satisfying and show a resolution for all the major characters. It’s too bad as with more work this could have been an excellent read.