Unabridged Audiobook
I agree with the first review..... it took me a while to want to restart the book once I stopped (Cold Mountain did they same to me) but once things start to unfold you become inamored with the really life Springer episode going on!!! I know other people do not like the narrator however he does not both me. I remember he is reading what is written and he isn’t an actor but I think every audio book should be ready by James Earl Jones and that would make EVERY book better!!!
*WARNING THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS* Giving this four stars because the story is mind-boggling. If this were fiction, you'd say it was too preposterous to be believable, and yet, all of it really happened. The problem I have is the same one I always have with Phelps as a writer. He just isn't a very good one. He manages to find these amazing stories full of the most outlandish characters who have walked the earth, doing jaw-dropping things, and somehow manages to make them boring. In this story, you've got substance-abusing, orgy-loving lawyers, a beautiful redhead who men apparently couldn't stop giving money and gifts to, a former male exotic dancer, a family that makes the Mansons look normal, and a sleazebag killer-for-hire who keeps his son from school so they can get high together. Really? And yet, I almost didn't finish because it was such a snoozer. Once it gets going, the story picks up steam and justice is finally served, and the true sadness of this case comes to the forefront. So there's your four stars.
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