

Dead on Arrival
A Novel
Author: Matt Richtel
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
Unabridged: 12 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 08/01/2017
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
Author: Matt Richtel
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
Unabridged: 12 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 08/01/2017
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
MATT RICHTEL is a health and science reporter at the New York Times. He spent nearly two years reporting on the teenage mental-health crisis for the paper’s acclaimed multipart series Inner Pandemic, which won first place in public-health reporting from the Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism and inspired his book How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence. He received the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a series of articles about distracted driving, which he expanded into his first nonfiction book, A Deadly Wandering, a New York Times bestseller. His second nonfiction book, An Elegant Defense, on the human immune system, was a national bestseller and chosen by Bill Gates for his annual Summer Reading List.
I loved the plot of this book and the beginning really grabs you. Unfortunately, this is the high point in the book and the authors attempt at keeping my interest for the balance of the book falls short. Maybe it is just me, but I like story lines that make sense, are logical based on the characters......more
This book was disappointing. I liked the premise, but the plot changed into something else entirely. I never got a good sense of the characters and didn't particularly care for them or what was happening to them. I finished it because I was curious where it was going and how it would end. It's a qui......more
The biggest crime of this book was the blurb on top comparing it to the likes of Stephen King and Michael Crichton. How dare they compare this garbage to those great authors. I was expecting to be taken on a thrilling ride with this book, but it didn't live up to my expectations. Didn't even live up......more
Good concept that got bogged down in the middle with poor pacing and awkward dialog. The opening scene is really good and grabs the reader immediately. Unfortunately, the author wastes that momentum with characters that are all hard to like and difficult to root for; when they leave the plane, I fou......more