Forest of Silence

Addicting psychological thriller with twist

By: Kate Gable

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Forensic psychologist and rookie FBI agent Alexis Forrest returns to her hometown of Broken Hill to investigate the disappearance of a missing teenage girl. Returning to this snowy New England town is the last thing Alexis wants to do. She has a strained relationship with her divorced parents whose relationship did not survive the disappearance and murder of Alexis’ older sister, or her dad’s prison sentence.

The circumstances of this girl’s disappearance are surprisingly similar to her sister’s yet the local police aren’t exactly welcoming to an inexperienced FBI agent sent to help them solve the case. But then another girl, a wealthy student at a prestigious nearby boarding school, is found dead.

Trying to figure out if the two cases are connected and a serial killer is on the loose, Alexis finds herself getting close to all of the people she thought she had left behind forever. One of those people is a high school boyfriend, a long lost love.

The town is full of secrets that want to stay hidden. To make peace with the past, Alexis must unearth them all. What happens when she finds something that puts her in danger? Will Alexis find who did it or will she become the next victim?

Virtual voice computer generated narration was terrible!

I like the storyline a lot, and I kept with it thinking I was going to get used to the computer generated narrator. However, it became like torture. I had all I could do to stick with it, but I had to because I had to know the ending and then it meant listening to another book. Yikes. I really believe that if this is going to be done, then they need to really work on character change with voice change over between the characters. I think it would be a little bit easier to listen. There has to be a better way. I don’t think I’m going to be choosing another book that is done this way until I can see improvement.

Narration is everything

Good story, interesting characters, but the narration was so bad that all credibility was destroyed.

How bad the narration was.

Narration was terrible!! Didnt at all match the words and emotions being conveyed. Very amateur.

Great plot line, terrible narration

Very mechanical “virtual voice” difficult to listen to. Almost didn’t come back to it. I highly prefer a real
Voice with inflection. Good story line and plot so I put up with voice.

Simple who done it story.

It was a decent book to listen to while doing other things. Did not require to much concentration to follow along. I am not huge fan of the narration, I prefer a human with inflection.

Virtual voice has a lisp?

I’m sure the story is fine. I just could not get past the narration. It was awful. I will avoid all virtual voice recordings from now on. I volunteer to record this story so we can enjoy it instead of wishing the narrator had a speech therapist. I normally love this kind of story but I just could not force myself to finish listening to it.

great story ruined

A computer reading the story totally ruined it. I could hardly listen to the computer generated voice that was flat and missed intonations of real speech. I won't be able to listen to the rest of the books in the series.

Good story…horrible telling

We did not enjoy the virtual voice. A real voice is much more interpretative and pleasant to listen to. The virtual voice did not do the story justice!

Good stroy, terrible narration

I like the story but it was really hard to follow. I am not a fan of the AI narration. There is no change in voices so most of the time you have no idea who is talking, and that makes it hard to follow. There are also a few places where there are words that have the same spelling but are pronounced differently that the AI pronounced wrong, It's not a big deal but it's another reason that a human does it better. I would suggest redoing the narration with a real person that does different voices for different characters.

The plot was good, the characters were believable.

Absolutely hated the AI narration. it is so bad. No sense of cadence, mispronounced words.