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    City of the Lost: A Rockton Novel
    City of the Lost: A Rockton Novel
    City of the Lost: A Rockton Novel
    Audiobook13 hours

    City of the Lost: A Rockton Novel

    Written by Kelley Armstrong

    Narrated by Therese Plummer

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson of a mobster and she knows that someday this crime will catch up to her. Casey's best friend, Diana, is on the run from a violent, abusive ex-husband. When Diana's husband finds her, and Casey herself is attacked shortly after, Casey knows it's time for the two of them to disappear again.

    Diana has heard of a town made for people like her, a town that takes in people on the run who want to shed their old lives. You must apply to live in Rockton and if you're accepted, it means walking away entirely from your old life, and living off the grid in the wilds of Canada: no cell phones, no Internet, no mail, no computers, very little electricity, and no way of getting in or out without the town council's approval. As a murderer, Casey isn't a good candidate, but she has something they want: She's a homicide detective, and Rockton has just had its first real murder. She and Diana are in. However, soon after arriving, Casey realizes that the identity of a murderer isn't the only secret Rockton is hiding—in fact, she starts to wonder if she and Diana might be in even more danger in Rockton than they were in their old lives.

    An edgy, gripping crime audiobook from bestselling urban fantasy writer Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost boldly announces a major new player in the crime fiction world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateMay 3, 2016
    ISBN9781427274984
    City of the Lost: A Rockton Novel
    Author

    Kelley Armstrong

    When librarians finally granted Kelley Armstrong an adult card, she made straight for the epic fantasy and horror shelves. She spent the rest of her childhood and teen years happily roaming fantastical and terrible worlds, and vowed that someday she'd write a story combining swords, sorcery, and the ravenous undead. That story began with the New York Times bestselling Sea of Shadows and continues with Empire of Night. Armstrong's first works for teens were the New York Times bestselling Darkest Powers and Darkness Rising trilogies. She lives in rural Ontario with her husband, three children, and far too many pets.

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    • 3/5
      Good narration, okay story. It kept me entertained on a long car trip
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this! Would be a great TV series. Unfortunately the other books in this series are not available through sribd in my country... I'm in Canada lol
    • 3/5
      Well, i think this book had potential to be better, to have more twisted plot but all in all the characters developed well and the book could be shorter, the book didn't meet my expectation and yes! I will not pick out the second book of this series. Damn!
    • 5/5
      Details of woman - man and woman relationships that are new to me
    • 4/5
      A solid backwoods murder mystery with a sweet but unsurprising romance. I didn't predict the big bad, but I really wasn't looking very hard. A fun ride.
    • 2/5
      More of a introspective drama with the flavor of mystery. Most characters are bland caricatures. All of the thrills were killed by mean girl drama and all of the detective work is typically summed up as "I spent the rest of the day conducting interviews, there was nothing of interest." Variations of that line are used multiple times.

      I found several contradictions, tons of filler and information given that was never used to further the plot, flesh out a character or expand an idea.

      This is really disappointing because the story itself is full of interesting ideas and characters that just aren't executed well. The story is well written in a sense that it flows well and the dialog makes sense.

      The narration is well done aside from a few jarring breaks where a character will speak in one tone and in a continuing sentence speak in a wildly different tone. It did not happen a lot though.

      I didnt find it very fun, I predicted who dun it by process of elimination very early on.