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Elsewhere

By: Dean Koontz
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Imani Parks, Josh Bloomberg, Brian Holden, Kevin T. Collins, Soneela Nankani, Alexander Cendese, Amanda Leigh Cobb
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Publisher's Summary

The fate of the world is in the hands of a father and daughter in an epic novel of wonder and terror by Dean Koontz, the number one New York Times best-selling master of suspense.

Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his 11-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach. It’s a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep.

Ed entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object - something he calls “the key to everything” - and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. But after a visit from a group of ominous men, Jeffy and Amity find themselves accidentally activating the key and discovering an extraordinary truth. The device allows them to jump between parallel planes at once familiar and bizarre, wondrous and terrifying. And Jeffy and Amity can’t help but wonder, could Michelle be just a click away?

Jeffy and Amity aren’t the only ones interested in the device. A man with a dark purpose is in pursuit, determined to use its grand potential for profound evil. Unless Amity and Jeffy can outwit him, the place they call home may never be safe again.

Includes an audio-only short story, "Parlor Trick," a kind of karmic coda to the novel.

©2020 The Koontz Living Trust (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Critic Reviews

“Ballerini (a Koontz veteran) is tremendous, and Parks makes strong choices in diction, pronunciation, and pacing to bring Amity Coltrane to life. The collaborative effect of Ballerini and Parks' narration works as a deliberate “all-in” to the production, making the audio version even more of a standout.”—Booklist 

“Colorful, imaginative…a lively, offbeat novel.” —Kirkus Reviews 

“This is a genre-busting work that happily will appeal to readers who enjoy thrillers, horror, sci-fi or just a flat-out well-told story with a breakneck pace that never lets up.” —Bookreporter 

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bad narration by female narrator

the women narrating amity pauses for ages between short sentences and sometimes mid sentence. very hard to listen to. The Male narrating jeffy is great and when he does amitys voice, does a better job then the women narrator. Don't know why there had to be two readers, it adds nothing

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Enjoyable book

I really enjoyed listening to the book. I was a little disappointed when it finished 😪

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What a disappointment. Dean Koontz is such a great writer, this is a let down. The concept is one that could have been better exploited and developed.
The main characters had huge potential but never quite made you feel connected.
There was so many rambling diatribes from the main characters. It became a trial to listen to.
The ending is so predictable and trite.

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My fave DK book so far

I have read a few DK books and this has been the best so far.

Unlike some others here I did not mind the female voice.

The story was great. It’s interesting how DK uses similar themes and characters across his books.

This is the same narrator as for Watchers and if my mind drifted I forgot what book I was reading and a dog was talking :-)

If you like DK you will like this book.

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Enjoyable storyline

I enjoyed this book and the excellent narration by by Edoardo Ballerini. However - the parts of the book that were narrated as an 11 yo girl were excruciating!!! Speeding her up helps - but it gets annoying having to swap between speeds. Would have given a higher rating if it weren’t for this.

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Back to old school Koontz!!

This is such a gripping story...and very much “cat and mouse” that Dean Koontz is awesome at (and that I’ve been missing in a lot of recent books).

The female reader of this audiobook really spoiled it for me though.....she sounded like she was reading a dictionary, her inflection and the way she pronounced words was just way off!!! This needs to be re-recorded with the female voice.....it just sounds like someone who has never read a book before!

Amazing story though! Thanks Koontz, I’ve missed this kind of suspense, that you do SO WELL!!!

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