This is a download from audible.com that I made. It is a legal copy of the book, the only one in existance. Please do not make additional copies of this recording.

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Synopsis

Assistant district attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters. She has seen too many criminals slip through the system. Her husband Caleb is a stonemason. No walls can guard them from the shattering discovery that their five-year-old son Nathaniel has been sexually abused. He's been left mute, unable to speak.

I originally read this back November 2006. The audio book was on sale so I figured why not... it was well done. The narrator's voice can be a little grating sometimes, but it did bring the characters to life very well. AND I finally learned how to pronounce the author's last name properly :) The story - I feel the same way. It was a little more uncomfortable listening to it than reading it, but because of the descriptive nature of some of it, I had to either wear my ear buds or make sure the kids weren't around.

Well done, overall...

RELEASE NOTES:

RABCKing to alsgal

Received in the mail yesterday. Thanks Candie!

Reserved for AceofHearts who selected it from the Audio VBB over on Bookobsessed.com

Unabridged approx. 14 hours

Finished listening to this one yesterday. I thought it was pretty goos but as candieb stated, sometimes difficult to listen to because of the nature of the story.

Sending off to Ace who selected from the Audio VBB over on bookobsessed.com

received while I was in the Rockies on Vacation

My father listened to this and loved it

mailed today to Mellion who took this out of the Audio VBB

Thanks, AceofHearts! I'll probably listen to this sometime after the first of the year.

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Unabridged, 12 downloaded CDs (audible.com), approximately 14 hours, read by Nancy Black

Reserved for indygo88 for the CD Only Audio Relay on BookObsessed. Will listen and pass on as soon as possible.

I finished this yesterday. I think this is one I should have read because I really didn't care for the narrator. She made all the characters seem so cold, and I found myself not really caring too much about most of them. Also, although Picoult's books have been highly recommended to me, this is the first of hers that I've read. I'm not entirely impressed.

Yes, the subject matter is uncomfortable, but Picoult spends so much time focusing on what I perceived to be a rather lunatic bunch of adult characters that Nathaniel's plight got pushed to the side. Plus, after years of working with sex abuse victims, a lot of this plot just didn't ring true to me. And Nina? Yes, I can sympathize with her, and I certainly think I'd lose my mind in the same situation, but the woman just seemed to go from sane to totally bonkers in no time at all.

Anyway, I thought this book was just ok—nothing spectacular. I'll read another Picoult novel just to compare. Like I wrote earlier, my dislike might be more from the delivery of the narrator than anything else—her voice and tone just grated on my nerves.

Ok, after that bit of uplifting opinion...I mailed this audio to indy today. I hope you appreciate it more than I did!

Hmmm...you've all got me so worried about this one now! LOL! No worries -- I'll give it a go!

Even though Picoult's style is fairly predictable after reading several of her novels, I still find myself drawn to her storylines & look forward to the various ways she drops in a few, unexpected twists. Having said that, I didn't think this one was perhaps as unexpected as some, but overall I did enjoy it. It's not heavy reading, but it can pull at your emotions & make you think, "Gee, what would I do in this situation?" I didn't find the main character of Nina very likeable, though. And I'm not sure about the ending -- I didn't think it quite lived up to the caliber of some of her others. But like I said, after all was said & done, I found it an enjoyable read.

Going into booklady331's CD audio bookbox....

I'm taking this out of the bookbox.

Everyone always recommends Jodi Picoult. I recently read The Pact by her and really liked it. I look forward to trying something else out from her. Thanks!

This book was what I'd come to expect from Jodi Picoult--high drama and high emotions. I was pretty sympathetic to the characters for much of it, but the hardest part was sympathizing with the mother. What she did was believable, but not condonable.

Handing this off to a friend to rehome.

KK brought me several audiobooks to rehome. This is one I will definitely add to my pile to ear-read in the future, because I have enjoyed the couple of Jodi Picoult books I have read.

This book is going to today's meet-up to hopefully find a new reader. I have had this book for a while and it has been in my car when I was looking for something to listen to and I have repeatedly said, "Oh, I'm not in the mood for Jodi Picoult today." I have liked the other books of hers that I read and she does a decent job with the legal stuff, but there is usually enough high emotion that it is not right for me at this point in my life.

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Thanks, KateKintail. I picked up this book at the mini-BCinDC Meetup in La Madeleine, in Alexandria, Virginia, for my friend who loves audiobooks for long commutes.

I'm releasing this book to my friend in New Boston, New Hampshire. USA.

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