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Riley Crane is used to relying on her paranormal abilities to help her in her role as an FBI agent. Unfortunately, her abilities seem to have disappeared on her this time... along with several weeks of her memories! Exactly what is going on here at Opal Island? Is there a tie to the occult or satanism? Riley has her hands full with her missing memories, missing paranormal powers, a lover she doesn't remember, and a murder. Will Riley regain her powers as she scrambles to figure out just what is going on? Kay Hooper's tales veer towards the dark side and SLEEPING WITH FEAR is no exception. There are some rather graphic details in this one, but nothing that doesn't further the plot. I started this one on audio but finished it in print. The print version is awesome, of course, as Kay Hooper always writes a suspenseful tale. Riley's eerie sense of reality slipping away is very well done as the reader feels Riley's sense of uneasiness and confusion. The tension level is extraordinarily high as the reader empathizes with Riley's struggle to regain both her memories and her powers. But the audio version left something to be desired.... the narrator's attempt at making the male voices, particularly the Southern drawl, kept jarring me out of the story. Even worse, the narrator insisted on spelling out A-W-O-L instead of saying it as a word and so it overemphasized just how many times that word was used. I don't think this would be an issue in the print book but it was jarring in the audio. I definitely recommend the print version on this one! My rating is based solely on the print version as the audio would rate significantly lower. Skip the audio, particularly if you are a Southerner like me and can't stand Southern accents that aren't real.Reviewed by Debbie |
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Posted April 2008 |
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