Difficult to follow as an audiobook because so much stuff was happening and there were too many characters. ( )

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Highly readable and interesting setting on Jekyll Island but it doesn't hold together. Torie and Joe are inconsistent in character and the story has holes in it, but still found it to be interesting. I hadn't realised that it was Christian Fiction until the Bible verses Joe quoted sprung out of nowhere and felt odd. ( )

My book club chose A Stranger’s Game by Colleen Coble as our selection this month. I have to be honest and say this romantic suspense was just okay. I did like main characters Torie and Joe (and Joe’s daughter was a delight), and they made a good couple as they sought to discover the source of a number of threats. I guess the author believed that stalkers, attacks, and a couple of murders, etc. — all seemingly unconnected — would prove hard for them and the reader to discover just whodunit. I figured out a couple early into the novel. I wanted to shout “check out so-and-so”! 😉 The Jekyll Island setting was wonderful as it is one of my favorite places to visit. It was easy to visualize all the places the characters went, since I’ve been there too. While the suspense was too easy to solve (in my opinion), the romance was good. I genuinely liked Torie and Joe, and liked how they overcame obstacles and doubts to choose a future together. Specific to the audiobook: I think the narrator did a good job with accents, pacing, and expression.

Audience: Adults.

(I purchased the audiobook from Audible. All opinions expressed are mine alone.) ( )

Stilted and clunky - Bailed at 22% - just can't get into it ( )