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    After He Killed Me
    After He Killed Me
    After He Killed Me
    Audiobook9 hours

    After He Killed Me

    Written by Natalie Barelli

    Narrated by Carly Robins

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    About this audiobook

    Emma’s friends are close. Her enemies are closer.

    Emma Fern has won at life: she’s a prize-winning author and she’s blissfully happy with her husband, Jim. It wasn’t an easy rise to the top, but Emma knows you can’t achieve success without sacrifice. The trouble is, Jim knows that too.

    As her literary triumph starts to fade into the past, Emma comes under pressure to write a second bestseller. But her big secret is that she didn’t write the first one. She’s a fraud, and the only people who ever knew the truth are…no longer a problem.

    What Emma didn’t count on was Jim playing the long game too. He has his own secrets—and a dangerous plan that could derail her beautifully orchestrated life. Faced with the loss of everything that defines her, Emma is forced to take increasingly desperate steps.

    She won’t go down without a fight. And as Jim should know, she won’t fight fair.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 19, 2017
    ISBN9781543618303
    After He Killed Me
    Author

    Natalie Barelli

    Natalie Barelli can usually be found reading a book, and that book will more likely than not be a psychological thriller. When not absorbed in the latest gripping page-turner, she loves cooking, enjoys riding her Vespa around town, and otherwise spends far too much time at the computer. She lives in Australia with her family. For more information, visit nataliebarelli.com.

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    • 2/5
      The book was alright, not nearly as good as the first book but I'm not here to talk about that... I'm here to talk about the narrator. She did an absolutely HORRENDOUS job. Everything was soooo over the top, she sounded like she thought she was reading to a bunch of kindergarteners! "ReeEEEeaaalllyyy, Ehhmaaaahhhh....." Ugh. Just totally killed the book for me. Literally THE MOST ANNOYING NARRATOR I've ever listened to. 100%.

      8 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      I really liked the book, but the narrator made this difficult to listen to. Not until the end did I think her tone of the character was believable I may need to just read her next book.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      The book was linear and well told. I liked the anxiousness the main character created with her internal dialogue. Ending was rushed but satisfying.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      The narrator was so bad it made this audio hard to listen to.
      She ruined what would otherwise have been an enjoyable book.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Loved it! I love domestic thrillers but they usually have predictable plot lines. Not this book! I had no idea what was coming next. Her characters are incredulous. One minute you’re rooting for him, the next for her. Great job - keep em coning.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      A good read/listen. It was a little obvious in some parts but not a deal breaker. The reading was 100% better than the 1st book!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      I keep trying this author because she OBVIOUSLY gets rave reviews and the plots have major potential. I just cannot do it anymore, I'm OBVIOUSLY done. The Housekeeper was OK but at least the first half seemed to have been written while watching the same Revenge episodes that are mentioned in the beginning. Even has a character named Van Camp, funny that Emily Van Camp OBVIOUSLY starred in Revenge. Eye roll, but whatever. We all get inspiration from somewhere, OBVIOUSLY.

      The prequel to this one was OBVIOUSLY better than both the others I've now read. But that narrator enunciated so hard she was robotic, OBVIOUSLY. I cringed my way to the finish line hoping the writing and narration would improve. No such luck, OBVIOUSLY.

      OBVIOUSLY the overuse of "obviously" is really freaking annoying.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      As an audio book this is truly awful. The whole thing is read with an irritating whine and is so stilted is difficult to know who is supposed to be speaking.
      Add to this a completely unbelievable plot makes this a one star from me.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Honestly, I don’t know how I feel about the book because the narrator was AWFUL!! Everything was over dramatized and her character voices were whiny. Ugh! I’ve never taken so long to listen to a book. I couldn’t get into it all the way. I only finished it because I can’t NOT finish a book. I should’ve just read it.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Narration is horrible and makes it difficult to follow the book.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      I had to listen to this book because I listened to its first part, but the author of this book is the worst i have ever heard. She was nasal, loud and every conversation sounded like confrontation. It was so bad that I listened to this book in parts. Story was okay. But narration☹️

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      A little over the top and not quite credible, but still kept me wanting to find out the ending. This is the sequel to Until I Met Her and has the same protagonist, Emma Fern, who is lucky, extremely superficial, frivolous, shrewd in many ways, yet gullible and stupid in others. Both books are about deception, including self-deception. In terms of narration, if I thought the narrator for the first book was awful, the one for this book is ten times worse. She is shrill, over the top, and the characters sound retarded or infantile. I wonder who chooses narrators, and whether there is a process of production and supervision to prevent the narration for falling so low?
    • 5/5
      Really really goood
      Read part one though , until i met her
    • 4/5
      I would have given 5 stars for a truly entertaining book, but the narrator's voice was so annoying, I didn't know if I could finish. Like listening to a cartoon character. Other than that, loved it!
    • 5/5
      As usual; unpredictable and twisted. I love this author. Keep them coming!!
    • 3/5
      I liked it and never expected all the twists and turns it took!
    • 2/5
      Did not finish the book, as I could not ever get into it. I tried, went halfway through, but it did not keep attention! The other books I've listened to by Natalie are much better!
    • 2/5
      Meh...very redundant writing. A good attempt at a thriller? Missed the mark though. How many times does it mention 'Pulitzer prize winner', in the story? I lost count. Not horrible, I feel it could have had a bit more depth added to the characters instead of repeating the same few details.
    • 4/5
      This was better than I thought. Glad I ignored the negative reviews.
    • 5/5
      I was gripped from the very beginning. Another brilliant book from Natalie Barelli.
    • 5/5
      Love the first book, really enjoyed the second book. I love how your story makes me root for Emma. Not sure if that makes me crazy but ‘Go Emma!’ ❤️
    • 1/5
      First 'Emma Fern' book was torture, she's vile, shallow, vindictive, narcissistic AND dumb af. But at least narrator was good. This second one.. Gods help me, book was nah, but narration was unbearable! Why tf you didn't stick with first narrator? I don't know who I hated more, Emma or the narrator!
      My ocd didn't allow me not to finish the first book, so I had to listen and the second one, too, even though it cost me 3 years of my life with all that whining, shouting and howling by the worst narrator I've listened to in these 4 years!
      I hated every second of the AUDIObook, all the characters and the plot.
      There's special place in hell for narrators like this.
    • 4/5
      One more brilliant novel by Natalie ? first book was better but this wasn't bad as well, just not so good as first one. AND I didn't catch why the name of the novel is After he killed me... Did missed something?
    • 2/5
      So predictable! Slow moving! Not a fan of the narrator!
    • 5/5
      This sequel to until I met her continues and finishes the story wonderfully. Reading the firs will make this more enjoyable. Emma is crazy and it’s entertaining to listen to. All the characters in the book. The narrator is brilliantt. A good book a better listen.
    • 5/5
      Amazing psychology and writing. I love how twisted the story is
    • 5/5
      I have one suggestion, read everything by this author. You will not be disappointed.