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By: Ania Ahlborn
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
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Deep in the heart of Appalachia stands a crooked farmhouse miles from any road. The Morrows keep to themselves, and it's served them well so far. When girls go missing off the side of the highway, the cops don't knock on their door. Which is a good thing, seeing what's buried in the Morrows' backyard.

But 19-year-old Michael Morrow isn't like the rest of his family. He doesn't take pleasure in the screams that echo through the trees. Michael pines for normalcy, and he's sure that someday he'll see the world beyond West Virginia. When he meets Alice, a pretty girl working at a record shop in the small nearby town of Dahlia, he's immediately smitten. For a moment he nearly forgets about the monster he's become. But his brother, Rebel, is all too eager to remind Michael of his place....

©2015 Ania Ahlborn (P)2015 Tantor Family Life Genre Fiction Horror Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scary Fiction
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"This relentlessly grim tale is most definitely not for the squeamish, but it's nearly impossible to put down." ( Publishers Weekly)

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I will never listen to another book narrated by this guy. I’ve listened to a LOT, he was by far the worst. Unfortunately, it’s tied to my rating. The story was pretty darn good, intense though.

Horrible narration.

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Whoa!! Whoooooa!!! These are some very bad people! Very bad! If you are even the least bit squeamish, do not attempt this book. Seriously, baaaaaad people!

Extremely graphic.

Narrator, Paul Boehmer was good.

Whoa!!!

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First, the narrator is fabulous! Second, wth! this is probably one of the more disturbing stories I have listened to, but I was hooked!

wth!!!

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This was not quite what I expected. But once I start, I like to finish a book. This was a lot more dark than I was expecting. No happy endings here!

Very dark

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Having read "Deliverance," "Open Season," and countless other novels about depraved hillbillies, I was curious about "Brother."
Having read (listened to) "Brother," I can say: I was satisfied with the experience.

It's a little convoluted, and what's ostensibly intended as foreshadowing usually turns out telegraphing exactly what twists are to come.
But it was a satisfying reading experience.
If this is already the type of book you like, I think you will find your reading experience satisfying, or at worst, satisfactory.

I knocked a point off the Overall score for some really poor editing, in the text as well as the audiobook.
This is the third book I've read by Ania Ahlborn, and I think it's my favorite yet, but the issue of editing is persistent through them all.
In one, possibly her first horror novel, every time someone tilted their head to the side, they "canted their head."
And boy oh boy, could the characters in that book ever cant their heads!

Ahlborn's novels come across like started out writing fanfiction, then at some point she began writing novels for publication by major publishing houses, but the quality of her writing stayed at the level of fanfiction for several books.
More power to her, nothing wrong with learning by doing.

The narration by Paul Boehmer has a "Vincent Price" quality, along with long, random pauses, which left the impression that he and I were both reading this book for the first time.
All that being said, I think the narration could have been a solid 4 with better editing.

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