
The Last Child
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Narrated by:
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Scott Sowers
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By:
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John Hart
Fresh off the success of his Edgar® Award-winning, New York Times bestseller Down River, John Hart returns with his most powerful and intricately-plotted novel yet.
Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: happy parents and a twin sister that meant the world to him. But Alyssa went missing a year ago, stolen off the side of a lonely street with only one witness to the crime. His family shattered, his sister presumed dead, Johnny risks everything to explore the dark side of his hometown in a last, desperate search. What he finds is a city with an underbelly far blacker than anyone could've imagined—and somewhere in the depths of it all, with the help of his only friend and a giant of a man with his own strange past, Johnny, at last, finds the terrible truth.
Detective Clyde Hunt has devoted an entire year to Alyssa's case, and it shows: haunted and sleepless, he's lost his wife and put his shield at risk. But he can't put the case behind him—he won't—and when another girl goes missing, the failures of the past year harden into iron determination. Refusing to lose another child, Hunt knows he has to break the rules to make the case; and maybe, just maybe, the missing girl will lead him to Alyssa...
The Last Child is a tale of boundaries: county borders and circles on a map, the hard edge between good and evil, life and death, hopelessness and faith. Perfectly blending character and plot, emotion and action, John Hart again transcends the barrier between thrillers and literature to craft a story as heartrending as it is redemptive.
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An audio "page turner"
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There are many good things to say about this book, its characters, atmosphere, themes, etc. That has already been ably done. You should read "The Last Child".
You may, however, want to read it in hard copy. With regret, I gave 4 rather than 5 stars in this rating. The simple reason is the terrible narration. Others have described it rather well and I agree with many of the criticisms of the narrator's work. It felt at times as if my eyebrows were being plucked out, one at a time, to the beat of a very, very slow metronome. Awful. I wound up just buying the book and reading it on the couch at home. I have no idea what, if any, creative impulse was guiding the narrator in this effort. I sincerely hope he ignores that impulse, or has better people to guide him, in any future production he is given. He should not be let out alone.
Wonderful book poorly read.
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The Last Child
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And I love to mow my lawn!
The lead character is a very bright but withdrawn adolescent boy, and the narrarator reflects that perfectly. A more gregarious narrarator might have been more entertaining, but would have ultimately rung false.
Easily the best mystery I've heard/read all year.
A book you can't stop listening to
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Good But Tedius
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Great read!
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Hart is a fair writer. All the information is there for you to reach the final and right conclusion. No Perry Mason ending here.
The twist made me sorry I judged and showed me my own soul.
The narrator I'll leave behind. He uses a sharp and stuttered style and an almost old West pronunciation in a persistently hard and unnatural "e" in "the" and "a" but "been" like the legume. At times I was confused by his voicing of the boys and couldn't distinguish who was speaking.
I did find that it interfered with the enjoyment of the book and prevented from me rating it the full five stars it deserves.
Great writing, poor narration
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I need 5 more stars!
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Great read
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