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I listened to An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen. I mostly liked it, though not quite as much as their previous collaboration (The Wife Between Us). Here, a young woman becomes part of a psychological study on morality; it's told in two voices, the subject and the doctor, and uses two narrators, Julia Whelan and Barrie Kreinik respectively.
The authors did something I'm not sure I've seen before--the sections narrated by the doctor relentlessly use passive voice (e.g, sentences like The coat was put in the closet, rather than I put the coat in the closet). It's annoying as hell, but it does fit the character, who is remote; more than that, she creates situations in which others act rather than taking action herself. So I understand why they did it, but I think the choice hurt the flow of the narrative.
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