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I didn't do too well choosing books to use up my Audible credits before I canceled my membership. I've listened to three of the four last-minute purchase, and all three were "eh."
I had high hopes for The Crooked House, by Christobel Kent, but it didn't hold my attention--I kept losing the thread of the story, backtracking, forgetting who was who--and, worst of all, not really caring too much, just wanting to be done. It wasn't awful, but I simply couldn't stay focused.
Then I listened to The Other Child, by Lucy Atkins. This one held my attention, but the story had a lot of faux suspense--a lot of the seemingly nefarious doings turned out not to be nefarious after all. The "villain" of the piece wasn't so bad. All these terrible things had happened, or almost happened, but then they turned out to be less than they seemed. At the end, I felt like singing Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?"
And the third book, just finished, was Sisters and Lies, by Bernice Barrington. Probably the best of the three, but it led in a poor field. The narrators here had lovely-to-listen-to Irish voices, but the two women sounded a bit too much alike to my ear. The story here was OK, if somewhat predictable, but I didn't find either of the two sisters very likable.
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