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    Closer Than Blood
    Audiobook10 hours

    Closer Than Blood

    Written by Gregg Olsen

    Narrated by Terry Rose

    3.5/5

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    The first time was easy. No one ever suspected the victim had been murdered. The crime long buried, the dark passions guiding the killer's hand are still alive. But the need for revenge cannot be denied. Only one person can stop the killing. Only one person can identify the killer. Only one person knows the face of death — is as close as the face in the mirror...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks in Motion Audio
    Release dateApr 15, 2013
    ISBN9781614533764
    Author

    Gregg Olsen

    #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Gregg Olsen has written more than thirty books, including Lying Next to Me, The Last Thing She Ever Did, and two novels in the Nicole Foster series, The Sound of Rain and The Weight of Silence. Known for his ability to create vivid and fascinating narratives, he’s appeared on multiple television and radio shows and news networks, such as Good Morning America, Dateline, Entertainment Tonight, CNN, and MSNBC. In addition, Olsen has been featured in Redbook, People, and Salon magazine, as well as in the Seattle Times, Los Angeles Times, and New York Post. Both his fiction and nonfiction works have received critical acclaim and numerous awards, including prominence on the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. Washington State officially selected his young adult novel Envy for the National Book Festival, and The Deep Dark was named Idaho Book of the Year. A Seattle native who lives with his wife in rural Washington State, Olsen’s already at work on his next book.

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    Reviews for Closer Than Blood

    3.5/5

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    • 1/5
      The book was ho-hum, but the narration was SO AWFUL I almost couldn't finish it.
    • 2/5
      I don't think I can finish it. The narrator's voices for the characters are terrible and making it difficult to focus on the story itself.
    • 3/5
      Good story but the narrator's voice was almost too much to bare. I had to remove a star for it, otherwise it would've been a 4 star rating. Ugh. That voice. Especially when he did the voice of the teenage boy character... it was like he was trying to sound like a whining 5 year old and I almost stopped listening to the book many times because of it. I will forever avoid listening to another book read by that guy.
    • 3/5
      This was a good sorry, but the narrator makes it painful to listen to. He makes the teenagers sound like creepy Steve Buscemi impersonators and older male characters sounds like George Burns.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I don't like to read series out of order. I enjoyed the drama and the twists and turns. I might have enjoyed it a little more if I'd read the first book beforehand.
    • 3/5
      Easy read as usual by G.Olsen. Predictable, but fast paced.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      The reader is re-united with Detective Kendall Stark. She isn't working a current case at the beginning of this story but is simply involved in the periphery. Why? Kendall feels that an evil and devious high school classmate, Tori, is more involved than just being the innocent bystander in her husband's death. Tori's twin sister, Lainie is the proverbial good sister and she also feels that there is more to this story than meets the eye. Is this another instance of Tori getting away with murder...literally and figuratively speaking?I enjoyed the intrigue and mayhem that is unveiled throughout this story. There are times when Kendall's investigation into the past and present seems to go off half-cocked but, trust me, it makes sense in the end. The theme that ties all of the little stories together seems to be what secrets are we all hiding and what lengths are we willing to go in order to protect those secrets. The characters might seem trite at first, good twin vs. evil twin, but Lainie, as the good twin, is not the perfect child or adult. She has her fair share of faults and weaknesses. However, Tori goes a long way in epitomizing the evil twin. She is so much more than a femme fatale, although she fits that role quite well. As the story unfolds, Tori becomes not only hated but reviled by the reader as well as the characters in the story. This feeling of camraderie with the characters is one of the things that makes Mr. Olsen's writings so unique, in my opinion. I've read all of his fiction works and enjoyed them all and Closer Than Blood was no exception. A well-written and well executed mystery that brings thrills and chills.