You Believers, Jane Bradley
You Believers, Jane Bradley
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You Believers

Author: Jane Bradley

Narrator: Susan Bennett, T. Ryder Smith

Unabridged: 14 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/13/2012


Synopsis

A young woman goes missing, and her mother uproots her life to find her daughter. A professional searcher with uncanny empathetic skill works to find the missing and to comfort desperate loved ones left behind. A tortured young man hell-bent on destruction leaves a trail of pain, sorrow and even hope, as he moves through the lives of friends, loved ones, and strangers. You Believers explores the ripple effects of a random crime. It takes you on a journey through hell and back, a journey that offers insight on how we can endure horrible events with faith, strength, and grace. Amidst the darkness there are flickers of hope as characters move from unspeakable horrors, and in the end celebrate the tenacity of the human spirit. Bradley portrays this world with a vision that is at once ruthless and utterly compassionate. Under her hand, it is not just the mystery of the hunt or the heartbreaking search for a woman that keeps us locked within the layers of story; rather, it is the deeper mystery explored here, the search for logic, meaning, and redemption, in the domino force that is human nature.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathy on May 03, 2011

A story of a girl missing, a girl saved and numerous who plummet someplace in between. All the characters are damaged and because of this, sympathetic. The characters pose the question when you become a victim, is it better to be killed or be a survivor. It examines what happens after a horrifying i......more

Goodreads review by Marie on December 03, 2011

[URL not allowed] I didn't realize that You Believers was based on true characters until after I'd finished the book. It's about people who are lost and people who seek: damaged souls who take revenge on other people for their own hurt...grieving ones who lose their loved ones.......more

Goodreads review by Charlie on March 19, 2011

A heart-crushing tale of a girl lost, a girl saved and several who fall somewhere in between. All the characters are flawed and because of this, demand sympathy on some level. The juxtaposition of the characters poses the question when victimized, is it better to be killed or live. It examines what......more

Goodreads review by The Sunday Book on March 11, 2011

I found this to be a hear-wrenching book. The thoguth of any child going missing is horrible. Granted this child was a 30 year old woman, but it's quick to forget that there is a mother out there worried for her. We read this story from a couple different voices. Livy, the mother of the missing woman......more

Goodreads review by Eleanor on February 05, 2011

Multiple voices are employed to stunning effect in this novel of those who are lost and those who find. Bradley's powerful writing catapults the story of a missing young woman into an engrossing character study that examines in meaningful and sometimes unexpectedly moving ways the actions of all the......more