Amid the Shadows - Michael C. Grumley
Sept 29, 2019 10:00:28 GMT -7
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Post by Mari on Sept 29, 2019 10:00:28 GMT -7
3 generous ⭐
I picked up the audio book of Amid the Shadows when it was the Audible Daily Deal. I purchased it because the summary looked interesting and Julia Whelan was the narrator. She's an excellent narrator. I knew it wasn't a romance but it looked like a decent mystery / suspense story. The book is part of KU as well. I'm not sure how to review this book because I really don't know _what_ the book was about.
Some crazy gov't bureaucrat is helping terrorists bomb churches and wants to start an apocalypse. While the crazy guy was watching a church explode he noticed a little girl looking at him. He's using all the gov't resources available to track down and kill the kid. I never did quite buy into that. So what if a kid looked at him, I'm sure others sent a glance or two his way. Why obsess about one kid? It didn't make much sense to me but the whole book seemed to revolve around the kid looking at the crazy guy for a few seconds.
The kid's mother was murdered in an attempt to kidnap the kid. She goes on the run with her social worker. It's discovered the kid can see a person's soul. They meet up with a man who has no soul who tells them he was sent by God to protect the kid. If he succeeds he gets a soul.
In the meanwhile there are other religious factions that really don't add to the plot but they get back stories. There are too many characters to keep track of and all of them seem to be off doing their own thing. I expected at some point for it all to come together and it sort of does and doesn't. In the last few chapters several sub plots are simply dropped and never get resolved. After nearly a nine hour audio the book really isn't about the kid that can see souls either. It's about the crazy gov't bureaucrat, kind of.......maybe? I still don't know and I don't care enough to listen / read the book again.
The ending didn't make much sense either. I think I 'got it' after I thought about it awhile but nothing was obvious.
This was the first book I've read / listened to from this author and if this book is representative of his style I probably won't bother with any more of his books in the future.
I picked up the audio book of Amid the Shadows when it was the Audible Daily Deal. I purchased it because the summary looked interesting and Julia Whelan was the narrator. She's an excellent narrator. I knew it wasn't a romance but it looked like a decent mystery / suspense story. The book is part of KU as well. I'm not sure how to review this book because I really don't know _what_ the book was about.
Some crazy gov't bureaucrat is helping terrorists bomb churches and wants to start an apocalypse. While the crazy guy was watching a church explode he noticed a little girl looking at him. He's using all the gov't resources available to track down and kill the kid. I never did quite buy into that. So what if a kid looked at him, I'm sure others sent a glance or two his way. Why obsess about one kid? It didn't make much sense to me but the whole book seemed to revolve around the kid looking at the crazy guy for a few seconds.
The kid's mother was murdered in an attempt to kidnap the kid. She goes on the run with her social worker. It's discovered the kid can see a person's soul. They meet up with a man who has no soul who tells them he was sent by God to protect the kid. If he succeeds he gets a soul.
In the meanwhile there are other religious factions that really don't add to the plot but they get back stories. There are too many characters to keep track of and all of them seem to be off doing their own thing. I expected at some point for it all to come together and it sort of does and doesn't. In the last few chapters several sub plots are simply dropped and never get resolved. After nearly a nine hour audio the book really isn't about the kid that can see souls either. It's about the crazy gov't bureaucrat, kind of.......maybe? I still don't know and I don't care enough to listen / read the book again.
The ending didn't make much sense either. I think I 'got it' after I thought about it awhile but nothing was obvious.
This was the first book I've read / listened to from this author and if this book is representative of his style I probably won't bother with any more of his books in the future.