Just started listening to it—but then I listen to everything, the library willing.
^I listen a lot…including “just before bed” and even once the lights are out. I usually make it through 2 tracks before falling asleep!
Kajon, that is what I thought was cool about the audiobook, three different voices, so easy to keep them straight
Yes that would be good, esp if they are British voices to help with the sense of place. When I first starting to read it aloud to my friend, the chapter headings of the names were in gray and I didn’t even notice that it switched to another person so it was very confusing to sort it out. But since I read ahead, I notice she hasn’t asked me to continue reading this one. She likes books on tape and being read to while she knits, but I can’t stand it. Meanwhile I just got Reconstructing Amelia for 1.99 on Kindle. Also a good story, but a bit disturbing because a teenage girl has died.
Yes, Brits, so an accurate sense of place. I think that is what I liked
Brownparent; I too did not notice, in the beginning, that each chapter was a different person which I think was one of the reasons I went to the end, ready to give up…
I am in the midst of this book now, and listening to it as an audiobook because of this thread and having to take a two hour each way trip yesterday. I got it from my library. What I find weird about audiobooks is not having as good a sense of how far along I am with a book. I mean I know if I’m halfway, but there’s something about a physical book and knowing there are ten pages or two hundred pages left. I like the different voices. I want to shake Rachel and convince her to NOT drink and stop lying! It is frustrating not to be able to read thru to the end but instead have to wait for the next car ride.
Just read it. Pretty good. A little more than halfway through it seemed pretty clear who the killer was.
I am bumping this thread. I just finished this book on audible.com. I have just heard they are making it into a movie. I drive back and forth from Illinois to NC and, while I have listened to lots of audiobooks, this is my first fiction book. I do it to keep me awake, and I have a little “rewind 30 seconds” button in case I miss something. Maybe someone else has picked up this book since April.
I read this over my recent vacation and loved it ! It was my daughter’s recommendation. She said it was going to be a movie soon. It reminded me a bit of Gone Girl, the book.
I just read it last week. On about page 4 I realized that the “girl” was about 34. Once I got over being annoyed by that… 
It’s definitely a page turner. Not great literature, but good entertainment with more depth than many other books of that type.
My opinion is the same as many. It was good, but not great. I figured out who it was about 1/2 through too.
Possible spoiler!
Yes, until I figured out who done it, it was a great read. I didn’t like the very ending. All of a sudden it became like an action movie. And com’on, would a bad person take that long time to explain the complexity of emotions and the progression of events in such a detail in real life? Wouldn’t he just go ahead and finish the business?
But I really enjoyed the first half or so.
I really didn’t like this book but it was enough of a page turner that I finished it. There wasn’t one likable person in the bunch and I couldn’t relate to any of them. I think it’s much overrated. So many other good books out there.
What I thought was interesting about this book (a variation on the “Rear Window” scenario) is the description of the effects of heavy drinking. The UK has a huge drinking problem in which binge drinking, for men and women, is quite routine, and this book is an effective critique of that custom and its cognitive and psychological traps.
It is not as good as “Gone Girl” or similar “unreliable narrator” books, but it is absorbing for a weekend read.
I’m halfway through the audio book and it’s growing on me.
Audio books – whether on CD or free library downloads – were the only thing that kept me from going crazy during my (long and always frustrating) commute to and from work.
who knew ? I thought audiobooks were for people who have reading or eyesight problems
I am devoted to audio books for long driving trips. And when I was a chocolatier, they were all that kept me sane during long hours of working with my hands.
@lje62, I listen to audiobooks on my i-phone while I bike, usually an hour a day. When I’m listening to a really good book, it actually makes me look forward to my rides.
I can’t listen to a book in the car. I fall asleep 