• Rating: ☆☆☆
  • Narration: Read by David de Vries and Lisa Negron
  • Macmillan Audio
  • Release Date: March 08, 2022
  • Duration: 12 hours, 38 minute
  • Audio Excerpt

Synopsis

The Chase is a modern The Fugitive with characters only #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Candice Fox can write.

“Are you listening, Warden?”
“What do you want?”
“I want you to let them out.”
“Which inmates are we talking about?”
“All of them.”

When 650 of the world’s most violent human beings pour out of the Pronghorn Correctional Facility into the Nevada Desert, the biggest manhunt in US history begins.

For John Kradle, this is his chance to prove his innocence, twenty-six years after the murder of his wife and child. He just needs to stay one step ahead of the law enforcement officers he knows will be chasing down the escapees.

Death Row Supervisor turned fugitive-hunter Celine Osbourne is single-minded in her mission to catch Kradle. She has very personal reasons for hating him – and she knows exactly where he’s heading…

A Macmillan Audio production from Forge Books

This ended up being quite a story. And though this may not feel like it’s pertinent to my review, I feel it definitely has a place. And in the future, I’m going to make sure I don’t just post a Kindle in the picture, but I’m going to make sure I note if I read a physical book, eBook, or audiobook. I know it makes a difference to my reviews.

  • Audiobooks
    • If I listen while doing other things, I have a much larger tolerance for slow-moving stories.
    • If there are too many characters I become lost pretty quickly. (On one audiobook I finally decided to write down all of the characters and who they were married to, etc. That’s just not gonna happen again!)
    • Even if it’s an excellent story, if the narration is bad, it’s going to make if awfully hard to fairly judge it.
  • Kindle
    • If I forget who a character is I can easily highlight the name and search for it in the book. I’m not overwhelmed with lots of characters, at least to the same degree as an audiobook.
    • I’m not going to read many chapters in a book if I’m not motivated to go to the next page. No s-l-o-w stories that go on and on.
  • Physical Book
    • If a story doesn’t catch my interest quickly I have trouble plowing through page after page.
    • If there are lots of characters, I want to throw my hands up and call it a day.

Now, on with my “audiobook” thoughts:


I found this audiobook to be interesting enough to wonder where it was going to end up, but I definitely had some concerns from the get-go.

My Concerns

There were so many questionable actions that took place from the start, that I’m pretty sure I continued with the story only because it was an audiobook. And unfortunately, the narrators were a problem that certainly didn’t help the flimsy plot. Negron started in a rather clipped monotone voice that didn’t really improve. When the second narrator David de Vries, started I thought it would be better, and it was. Yet the two narrators didn’t feel like they complimented each other, they just added to a somewhat hard-to-follow-story. Lastly, I didn’t connect with any of the characters. And at times their actions were over-the-top foolish.

Final Thoughts

In the end, it just wasn’t my cup o’ tea. But it’s wonderful that we have lots of good authors and lots of people who like all flavors of tea and even coffee.

You may like this story. I’d suggest you give it a try. My three rating means it is a flip of the coin. Don’t pass it up because it didn’t work for me.

Thank you to NetGalley and MacMillan Audio for the ability to listen to this ARC and post my thoughts about it.

Rating

Rating: 3 out of 5.

3 STARS

About the Author

Award-winning author CANDICE FOX is the author of Crimson Lake. She is also co-writer with James Patterson of the #1 New York Times bestseller Never, Never; Black & Blue; and Liar, Liar. She lives in Sydney.

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