The Vanishing Hour

By: Marie Wilkens

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

When Sasha’s son Simon vanishes, she teams up with Beth, a former FBI agent, to find him. Their investigation leads them to Tyler, a mysterious newcomer whose guarded behavior only deepens their suspicions. As they uncover a chilling pattern of boys aged 7 to 9 disappearing every December within a 100-mile radius, they also unravel the town’s tangled web of secrets and deception. In this tight-knit community, friends and neighbors harbor hidden motives and dark pasts, where trust becomes a luxury Sasha can't afford.

Not well written.

While most people are giving bad reviews because of the computerized voice, that is not a problem to me. I find real people often incorrectly dramatize things and it gets pretty annoying. A computer voice let's you interpret the book without the narrator injectionng bias. Unfortunately, the writing is sophomoric. Not interesting at all. I would recommend passing on this one.

the virtual voice

the virtual voice should not replace a human narrator. the sound is not close to the same

Nothing stood out the most

Mediocre at best. It came up in a search for True Crime. Some AI narrations are good, and some are poor. The AI kills what story is available in this book.

Virtual voice

The story was very good but I did not like the virtual voice. I only listened to it fully so I could find out the outcome

Couldn’t get past first few chapters

I cannot comment on the story sadly because I just couldn’t stand to listen to the computer generated narrator! I am disappointed in that. Maybe I will actually read the book instead.