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    Mouth to Mouth
    Mouth to Mouth
    Mouth to Mouth
    Audiobook14 hours

    Mouth to Mouth

    Written by Michael Kimball

    Narrated by George Guidall

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Michael Kimball's work has received international acclaim from critics and authors including Stephen King, who says Kimball writes "the sort of book you think about during the day and can't wait to settle back into at night." In Mouth to Mouth, Kimball spins a terrifying tale of retribution, set in an idyllic, sheep-dotted countryside. As Ellen Chambers' marriage falls apart, her nephew Neil walks back into her life. Instead of the boy she knew 12 years ago, he is now a handsome young man. Soon, he has offered to rebuild her barn in exchange for lodging. But his offer of help and friendship is part of a larger plan that will leave a trail of deception and murder in its wake. As the barn takes shape, Ellen watches her life and her world change under the spell of forces she no longer knows how to name or control. Narrator George Guidall's performance highlights the mounting suspense in this gripping page-turner that will haunt you long after the last sentence.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJul 27, 2012
    ISBN9781470325046
    Mouth to Mouth
    Author

    Michael Kimball

    Michael Kimball is the author of The Way the Family Got Away, How Much of Us There Was and Dear Everybody, and his novels have been translated into a dozen languages. His work has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered and in the Guardian, Vice, Bomb and New York Tyrant. He is also a documentary filmmaker. http://michael-kimball.com/index.html

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    • 4/5
      This was not the best book that I've read by this author, but it was good. If you like the latter part of this book, try Undone or Green Girls, which were both thrilling from beginning to end. The first part of this book was a little slow at times, but I stayed interested in it on an on and off basis. Once I got about halfway into it, it got much better and I stayed hooked until the very end. I was able to guess at some of the things that were going on, but some of the things that were revealed near the end surprised me.
    • 2/5
      This would have been better had I actually cared about anyone in it. The ‘bad guys’ weren’t really that bad, the ‘good guys’ weren’t really that good. For example the daughter, Mo. She’s supposed to be object of everyone’s worry and concern. I hoped the awful, sniping crybaby would get it in the end. Teach her a lesson to be a groundless bitch all the time. All the suspense of Ellen trying to save her life was just wasted on me.And her stupid husband Randy was an idiot and a blowhard. You could see right through his show of machismo to his absolute gutlessness. Ugh. When he was killed, of course I couldn’t have cared less.Neil was supposed to be this crazed sociopath but I ended up feeling more sorry for him than afraid of him. He was waiting for his 12th birthday party when all hell broke loose in the form of Ellen coming to his house to report to his father that she just caught her husband and his wife in bed together. The father gets so distraught that he hangs himself. Because the little brat didn’t get his party, he becomes a nutcase and kills everyone associated with the two families, culminating in this little rendezvous with Ellen’s family. The whole deal about building the barn full of boobie traps and other things he could use to cause the destruction of it and everyone in it.All in all…it was suspenseful but only because I wanted to see how the author tied everything together, not because I cared whether anyone lived or died.
    • 4/5
      Michael Kimball certainly does know how to write page turners. This is the second book of his I've read (after Undone), and, with the exception of what he writes with James Patterson, I'd definitely read more of his work in the future. Kimball kept me interested in his plot points and tense action in spite of the fact that none of the characters in Mouth To Mouth were likable. That's right... none of them. Yet, in spite of that, I had to keep turning those pages to find out what happened next right to the end.The story opens as Ellen Chambers' very pregnant daughter Moreen marries Randy,. a loathsome individual who is involved in questionable activities. Ellen is sure Randy mistreats Moreen, and she would like nothing better than if her daughter had not married this despicable man. Ellen's nephew (by marriage) shows up at the wedding and observes Ellen's obvious distaste for her new son-in-law. As Ellen is mentally wondering if she could get away with murdering Randy, her nephew whispers in her ear that, "Anything's possible." Ellen doesn't take this comment seriously, but as time goes by and Randy becomes more and more worrisome to her because of the welfare of her daughter, she thinks about her nephew's comment as a solution.Various twists and turns conspire to put Ellen's whole family in an impossibly volatile situation that is further exacerbated by events from the past. Tension builds, and while at times the story is all over the place, there is a satisfying ending to the whole mess.I'd recommend this book to readers who like thrillers with characters who have some depth and are not merely cardboard superheroes.
    • 5/5
      Couldn't put it down, a thrilling page turner. Terrific.
    • 1/5
      No, no, no! A man writing from a woman's POV? A difficult trick to pull off, and Kimball failed to manage it. Plus his main characters weren't particularly likeable, his villains weren't menacing enough and the plot just plodded. Disappointing.