Audiobook Review: The Guilty One by Kiersten Modglin
The Guilty One
Author: Kiersten Modglin
Narrators:
Mia Hutchinson-Shaw
Chad Ackerman
Evan Sibley
Melissa Kay Benson
Published on Audio: September 3, 2024
Audiobook: 6 hours 24 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: August 26-30, 2024
Jessica’s Rating: 5 stars
Audiobook Description:
Your husband was involved in a fatal accident.
One horrific sentence, delivered in an impersonal phone call, changes Celine Thompson’s life in a second. But when she’s asked to identify his body, what she discovers sends everything she thought she knew about her life crashing down.
This man is not my husband.
But who was the man who died driving Tate’s car? How did he have Tate’s possessions and, more importantly, why do they sport identical tattoos?
We’re going to find him.
When Tate doesn’t answer his phone or arrive home after the accident, Celine fears the worst. Still holding on to hope her husband may be alive, Celine is desperate to track Tate down and figure out what’s going on before it’s too late. The only problem? There are dark truths waiting to come out that are so atrocious she won’t ever be able to look away from them.
As she begins to put together the pieces of the mysterious day her husband went missing, it paints a picture of a man she never really knew. Is it possible Tate is still alive, or is she wasting her time searching for someone who will never be found? And if he is alive, how will they ever survive all that she’s unearthed?
With time running out, Celine must push the limits of the law and her safety to shed light on the secrets that have been hiding in the dark corners of their life together. In doing so, she may just uncover the final missing piece to the puzzle surrounding her husband’s fate.
Someone is lying.
Someone is missing.
Someone is guilty.
Jessica’s Review:
This book and this author: Kristen Modglin is a must read/listen for me now! Of her books that I have listened to (I’ve only listened to her novels thus far), they are very quick and intense reads that are not super long! I can’t wait to listen to her backlog of novels and listen to/read her future ones!
The Guilty One begins with a phone call that every wife never wants to receive: A call from the local police department informing you that your husband was in a car accident and did not survive. Then when you go to identify the body: It’s not your husband! But then questions begin to comes up: Why did this person have your husband’s wallet, why was he in your husband’s car, and why do they have the same tattoo!?!?!
This is just the beginning of this fast-moving story. There was no way I would have figured out the way that this one went! You go on a journey with Celine to figure out just what is actually going on!
There are four narrators and they all did a great job with their narrations.
Many thanks to the publisher for granting me a copy to listen to and review!
Audiobook Review: What She’s Having by Laura Moher
What She’s Having
Series: Big Love from Galway #2
Author: Laura Moher
Narrators:
Michelle Price
Paul Bellantoni
Published: August 20, 2024
Audiobook: 9 hours 44 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: August 16-24, 2024
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars
Audiobook Description:
She may be strong, but she’s not unbreakable.
July Tate is a force to be reckoned with—a big, strong blond with a heart the size of her whole town—but beneath her capable exterior lie the scars of a devastating lost love. To July, love equals vulnerability, and she can’t afford either.
Joe Anderson knew from the first moment he saw her that July was The One. Now, after years apart, he’s back, driven by the need to explain his disappearance. In search of the girl who filled his teenage dreams, he finds instead a powerhouse woman who steals his heart and soul.
Joe embodies everything July has been missing, and together they spark as brightly as ever. But with Joe around, July, who can usually outwork four men is suddenly making mistakes right and left. And that scares her. Because if July falls again, this time her beloved town could go down with her.
Jessica’s Review:
What She’s Having is the second novel in the Big Love from Galway series. I adored the first novel, so I was ready to listen to the second one. We have romance books with some spice to them that also tackle difficult subject matter. I was not expecting that when I listened to Curves for Days and was pleasantly surprised by that novel! Moher handles this mix extremely well!
While you needn’t have read Curves for Days, it does help. We have a different couple, Joe and July, that are the focus in What She’s Having versus Rose and Angus in Curves for Days.
I won’t go into the triggers in my review, you can go to the author’s website for that. https://www.lauramoher.com These issues are not detailed in the novel, but might be worth noting if you can be triggered easily.
I love that Moher has plus-sized main characters that are are realistic. They are realistic in the fact that deal with many kinds of real-life situations and the after effects.
I did have issues with the narrators in this book as they are the same narrators from the previous book. It was hard for me to separate the different storylines with the couple in this book from the first. **This is a ‘me issue’ and not a problem with the narrations.** I especially had issues with the male narrator as for me he was a perfect Angus in Curves for Days. Paul Bellantoni just captured Angus perfectly and I was crushing on Angus so much in the first novel! I think the same narrators made it hard for me to connect with July and Joe in this novel, especially when Rose and Angus made appearances.
These books have some spice to them! It’s almost too spicy for me, but not quite! I saw on Facebook that Moher had to mark the book with post-its when she gave it to her son so he knows where the sex scenes are so he could avoid them! And that post entailed what happened when her son took the book to a trivia night: It’s hilarious! If she was my mom, I don’t think if I would be able to read the sex scenes either! Too much detail for an adult child to read what their mom wrote, or even vice versa!
I am looking forward to the next book in the series which comes out in March 2025! I will definitely be listening to or reading it!
Many thanks to the publisher for granting me a copy to listen to and review! It was a pleasure to listen to the first two books in the Curves for Days series!
Purchase Links:
Amazon US
Amazon UK
My August 2024 Reads!
Hello September! My favorite season is upon us: FALL: cooler temperatures, fairs, corn mazes, fall festivals and my favorite holiday: Halloween! I’m off work that last week of October and I plan on watching a lot of scary movies!!! Now that we are in September it is time to share what I read in August.
I completed four books in August, three audiobooks and one physical book. I did DNF an audiobook, but gave a good effort with it.
Here are the books in the order I finished them:
My Daughter’s Revenge by Natali Simmonds- 5 stars
What She’s Having by Laura Moher- 4 stars
Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis- 5 stars (A re-read)
The Guilty One by Kiersten Modglin
My favorite read was My Daughter’s Revenge by Natali Simmonds. It was so good: The twists and turns on this one!
My ‘least favorite’ will be a book I DNF’d (Did Not Finish). That books was The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. I gave it a good effort as I made it 35% in the audio, but just couldn’t do it anymore due to the narrator. He was so pompous and the way he pronounced Evelyn : Eve-elyn! (shudder!) After being that far into the book, I saw I still had over 11 hours left and I decided I couldn’t do it! And I could care less about Evelyn being killed. This was a book club read and I will try and actually read it sometime in the future as I have a physical copy.
Reviews will be forthcoming for these books. I am off work this week and will hopefully get caught up and get them written and another book that needs a review.
What did YOU read in August?
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