Taken in the Cold by Roger Stelljes Blog Tour for Booktoure

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Taken in the Cold by Roger Stelljes Synopsis: "Make sure you wrap up warm for school, honey. A blizzard is on the way." Ten-year-old Teddy rolls his eyes at his mother. But then he hears a bang... By the time police arrive, Teddy's mother is dead. His open school backpack is strewn across the hallway. And Teddy is nowhere to be found.   When gunshots ring out from an exclusive family home on the edge of Northern Pine Lake,  Agent Tori Hunter  races through the gathering snowstorm to discover that  ten-year-old Teddy Marist has disappeared . His mother and her new boyfriend are dead in the family kitchen, breakfast still cooking on the stove. And racing to track down Teddy's father,  Tori finds he is missing too.   Local police are certain this is a simple case of a jealous ex-husband turned violent over his recent divorce. But interviewing everyone she can about Teddy's father, Tori's gut has her questioning if he would really kidnap his own child?  An...
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The Therapist by B.A. Paris Narrated by Olivia Dowd &Thomas Judd

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Title: The Therapist
Author: B.A. Paris
Narrator's: Olivia Dowd & Thomas Judd 
Genre: Mystery & Thrillers
Format: Audiobook
Listening Length: 10 hours and 2 minutes
Date of Publication: July 13, 2021




Description: When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they’ve dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive…

As Alice is getting to know her neighbours, she discovers a devastating secret about her new home, and begins to feel a strong connection with Nina, the therapist who lived there before.

Alice becomes obsessed with trying to piece together what happened two years before. But no one wants to talk about it. Her neighbors are keeping secrets and things are not as perfect as they seem…

My Thoughts: The book starts off pretty slow and it picks up its pace a little bit but not by much. I felt like Alice, the main character, was relatable and you can really understand why she is so obsessed with piecing together what happened in her newly purchased home two years before. 

The book is narrated primarily by Olivia Dowd and I was at first thrown off by her English accent. I was thrown off because I didn't realize the book was set in the United Kingdom. I quite enjoyed her narration and found it easy to listen to. Thomas Judd does a narration of one chapter and I found it quite jarring because there was really no warning that the narrator was changing. I'm not quite sure that the change in narrator or perspective for the chapter that he read was truly necessary. I think it still could have been done in the perspective of Alice and her neighbors. 

Rating:  3 out of 5. I'm giving it 3 out of 5 because I thought it was a good book but it wasn't a "don't put it down" book for me.  

Many thanks to Macmillan Audio and Netgalley for this review copy. This is my honest opinion.

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