
Wonders Never Cease
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- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی

Aging Hollywood movie star Olivia Hayden finds herself being nursed by Kemp McAvoy after an accident lands her in intensive care. His ministrations make him seem like an angel, but his real goal is to exploit Olivia's frailty. Meanwhile, his girlfriend's daughter has a gift--she really does see angels. Tim Gregory's animated voice and pleasant tone engage listeners in a suspenseful plot as the trajectories of the scheming and the innocent come together. Gregory uses a gruff inflection to distinguish the unsavory Kemp and, in contrast, an empathetic tone for his victims. Gregory's delineation of good versus evil, along with his solid pacing, makes this a compelling audiobook. V.P. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

March 22, 2010
Christy Award–winning author Downs (Plague Maker
) delivers a novel different in tone from his previous suspense thrillers. When famed actress Olivia Hayden ends up in intensive care after a car accident, her nurse, Kemp McAvoy, seizes the opportunity to exploit the comatose star for his own personal gain. But while he's playing “angel” to the infirm celebrity, his girlfriend's daughter, Leah Pelton, claims she truly does see divine spirits. As the novel intensifies, the manipulation of one manufactured mystery becomes mired in criminal missteps; meanwhile, the other, possibly hallucinatory one, proves more difficult to refute. While Downs attempts to maintain the edge of a crime novel in this energetic drama, McAvoy's loutish nature, foiled by Pelton's endearing sincerity, makes for overly simplified characters in a sometimes stilted narrative. Nevertheless, fans of his previous books may find it refreshing to read this author's fast-paced novel set not in the South but in the greedy world of Hollywood.
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