Disappeared (audiobook)

 Narrators: Roxana Ortega and Christian Barillas

My Thoughts:

I am not an avid audiobook listener. I don't drive enough to have seven hours of passive listening time and I do not multi task well so listening when I am not driving is difficult. However, I also believed that I was not an ebook reader, and yet that has changed over the years and I almost exclusively read on a device now rather than reading paper books.  Therefore, at least once a year, I try again. 

I am not sure what the secret sauce is on listening to an audiobook that will pull you in to invest the time to listen is, but I also know that listening to books that I have read and loved before sometimes is a bust. I loved listening to Their Eyes Were Watching God, but I stopped listening to A Wrinkle in Time. I guess, the secret sauce, then is the quality of the narrator or narrators. With Sisters Matsumoto, it was good because it just sounded like I was at a play and I was backstage where I could only listen. With Their Eyes, it was definitely the narrator. But when I have never read it before, what pulls me in?

For this book, I think the narrators definitely pulled me in. They were easy to listen too. Not too dramatic, not too monotone. What kept me in is this is a suspenseful and exciting book. I just wanted to yell out to the two siblings - communicate! But no one was listening and the action and suspense just kept me in it for the whole time.  I just got the next audiobook through SYNC so I definitely am looking forward to the end of semester so I can listen to the next book, Illegal. 

From the Publisher:

You've never listened to a Francisco X. Stork novel like this before! A missing girl, a determined reporter, and a young man on the brink combine for a powerful story of choices, suspense, and survival.

Four months ago...

Sara Zapata's best friend disappeared, kidnapped by the web of criminals who terrorize Juarez.

Four hours ago...

Sara received a death threat - and, with it, a clue to the place where her friend is locked away.

Four weeks ago...

Emiliano Zapata fell in love with Perla Rubi, who will never be his so long as he's poor.

Four minutes ago...

Emiliano got the chance to make more money than he ever dreamed - just by joining the web.

In the next four days, Sara and Emiliano will each face impossible choices, between life and justice, friends and family, truth and love. But when the web closes in on Sara, only one path remains for the siblings: the way across the desert to the United States.