Shaken
Jack Daniels, Book 10
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Shaken
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Czyta:
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Dillon Horinek
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Autor:
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J.A. Konrath
WHAT'S THE WORST WAY TO DIE?
Chicago cop Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels has chased, and caught, dozens of dangerous criminals over the course of her career. But she's about to meet her match.
When Jack wakes up in a storage locker, bound and gagged, she knows with chilling certainty who her abductor is.
He's called "Mr. K." More than two hundred homicides have been attributed to him. His victims have died in the most horrible ways imaginable. He's the essence of evil. Some think he's just an urban legend. But he's real. Jack has tangled with him twice in the past, and both times he managed to slip away.
Now Jack will finally have a chance to confront the maniac she's been hunting for over twenty-five years. Unfortunately, it won't be on her terms. In less than two hours, Mr. K is going to do to Jack what he's done to countless others. And Jack is going to learn that sometimes the good guys don't win.
Author's note: Shaken was intentionally written out of chronological order, which is the author's preferred version. But if you prefer things to happen sequentially, this book contains both versions.
Features Jack Daniels, Phineas Troutt, Harry McGlade, and includes characters from the Konrath Dark Thriller Collective, the Codename: Chandler series, and the Timecaster series.
©2010 Joe Konrath (P)2025 Joe Konrath Book LTDContinue the series
Taken on its own, I found the book impressively harrowing. Confronting extreme borderline cases of evil offers exciting moral-philosophical perspectives. Especially as the story progresses, it reveals possibilities of cruelty that have the potential to be thoroughly disturbing. I mean that in a completely neutral way; personally, I tend to view it positively. There is something appealing about evil, as the popularity of crime and horror genres impressively proves.
For my part, I found the chronological order of the story much more appealing, as it allowed the tension to build much better and wasn't interrupted every five minutes by a flashback.
The only thing that bothers me about this audiobook is the reader. I'm sorry for the harshness of my criticism, but this was the worst reading of a book I've ever heard here on Audible. At no point did the narrator succeed in conveying the tension inherent in the story through his performance. There was never any sense of seriousness or real emotion. The role that the reader conveyed best was that of Harry, who was obviously written as a silly, unsympathetic character. The reader's strangely unnatural, halting pauses are the only attempt to convey the emotional states of the characters. I don't mean to accuse the narrator of being completely unskilled in his craft. But for this story, his style of reading is simply completely miscast. How thrilling, exciting, and moving this book could have been if it had been read by someone with a serious and dramatic reading style!
Unfortunately, this audiobook wastes a great deal of potential. Had I known this beforehand, I would have preferred to simply read the book.
Good story with miscast narrator
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