THE SUBSTITUTE - by Nicole Lundrigan (Audio Book)
House of Anansi Press - 2017Narrated by Janet Porter
My Rating (out of 5)
⭐⭐⭐⭐
A bone-chilling thriller of a story!
The story follows Warren Botts, who is a Ph.D, but taking a hiatus from his regular job to teach science in a middle school. Warren could at best be described as "awkward". One of his students - Amanda, has been going to his house, despite his requests that she stop. One day, Amanda is found hanging from the tree outside of Warren's home. Naturally, Warren is the prime suspect. Soon after, he is suspended from his teaching job, and the whole town is convinced of his guilt.
Alternating with Warren's story, is the narration of an unidentified person who is clearly a very smart, but profoundly disturbed individual. Slowly, the two stories are woven together, finally converging to the shocking truth at the end of the book.
The addition of such a severely disturbed, but unnamed character in a parallel narration adds a very eerie, sinister element to this book. It is indescribably chilling.
Janet Porter does a very good job in narrating this book. Her performance of the extremely awkward Warren was on-point, and helped draw the listener into the story.
Happy Reading,
Christine
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