Review: Audiobook Eloquent Silence

Eloquent Silence by Sandra Brown

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Book Blurb

Lauri is a dedicated young teacher for the deaf. Her past conceals a wound still unhealed, her present is a facade, and she uses her career to hide her loneliness. Drake, daytime TV's most popular star, has two secrets -- the daughter he believes may never have a normal life and the dead wife he can't forget. Jennifer is the beautiful hearing-impaired child who may become a pawn between the man and the woman she needs most. Now, in a chic New Mexico arts community, the three are given a chance to be a family...but first each must find a voice to express the deepest fears and greatest needs of the heart.

My Thoughts

In the book Drake is an actor on a Soap Opera and his daughter (Jennifer) is deaf and living in a school. Drake wants to move Jennifer to New Mexico and asks the school who they would recommend as a live in tutor. The Director of the school recommends Lauri. When the Director asked Lauri to meet Drake and sent her to where he worked she wasn't told what his job was.. haha. So Lauri was shocked and of course already had an opinion of Drake before meeting him (Typical huh). Drake's character to me seemed like it had the popularity equivalent to The Greys Anatomy guys. Anyways, I loved that Lauri wasn't afraid to speak her mind to Drake even though he was a popular TV star. When Lauri met him he didn't know much sign language and as a result couldn't communicate with Jennifer very much.

In the beginning I really didn't like Drake, but came to love him after a while. He was very willing to learn ASL (American Sign Language) to be able to talk to Jennifer and he really loved his daughter. Jennifer was just so adorable, I loved her from the beginning.

It was cool to listen to this story. The narrator was great. I enjoyed the storyline and the characters.

Just Finished: Audiobook Grave Peril

Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
#3 in Dresden Files
Narrated by: James Marsters

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Book Blurb

HARRY DRESDEN — WIZARD
Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment.

Harry Dresden’s faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the course for Chicago’s only professional wizard.
But in all of Harry’s years of supernatural sleuthing, he’s never faced anything like this: the spirit world’s gone postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing trouble—and not just of the door-slamming, ‘boo’- shouting variety. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly.
Someone—or something—is stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. But why? And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry? If Harry doesn’t figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself....

My Thoughts

It starts right in the middle of the action with Harry and Michael heading towards a suspected ghost. Then Harry backtracks to explain how they got there. They have no idea what is causing the increase in ghostly activity, but they know they have to stop whatever it is. Most of the book is spent trying to figure out who is behind everything.

There is a lot going on in this book, but at the same time it didn't have the same pull as books in the past. Most of the aspects of the previous books that I liked was missing in this book, I missed Murphy in this book, she seemed to be almost an afterthought in this book. Her working relationship with Harry is a big part of the cases normally. Bob (the spirit in the skull) wasn't as involved in this book either.

Honestly, I probably wouldn't have finished this book at this time if I was reading it myself. It probably would have been put to the side and would have come back to it later, but I enjoyed James Marsters' narration so much that I just kept listening. He is really good at it, you could hear the emotions and he read with feeling.