The Fortune Teller's Daughter

By: Lila Shaara

Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith

From the acclaimed author of Every Secret Thing comes an imaginative novel sizzling with suspense.

After a string of personal losses, Harry Sterling has hit rock bottom. He takes a teaching job at a small Florida college, but can't abandon his journalistic roots. So when he learns that a world-famous physicist may have stolen a revolutionary idea from a student, Harry launches an investigation - and soon finds himself in terrible danger.

©2008 Lila Shaara (P)2008 Recorded Books, LLC

Horrible accents warp book

The book is a good, very original story, but the narrator's southern accents are so bad that it warps the entire book. They are hard to understand and make the southern characters all sound like stroke victims. It divides the characters into normal people and bizarrely slurring morons. I live in Mississippi and I can assure you that people don't talk like this.

It really detracts from what could have been a very enjoyable listen. The story revolves around a scientific controversy with many repercussions, and I found it unique and compelling in a genre full of cookie-cutter bad guys compelled by similar motives.