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A Darkness Absolute

A Rockton Novel

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A Darkness Absolute

Written by: Kelley Armstrong
Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
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When experienced homicide detective Casey Duncan first moved to the secret town of Rockton, she expected a safe haven for people like her, people running from their past misdeeds and past lives. She knew living in Rockton meant living off-the-grid completely: no cell phones, no Internet, no mail, very little electricity, and no way of getting in or out without the town council’s approval. What she didn’t expect is that Rockton comes with its own set of secrets and dangers.

Now, in A Darkness Absolute, Casey and her fellow Rockton sheriff’s deputy Will chase a cabin-fevered resident into the woods, where they are stranded in a blizzard. Taking shelter in a cave, they discover a former resident who’s been held captive for over a year. When the bodies of two other women turn up, Casey and her colleagues must find out if it’s an outsider behind the killings or if the answer is more complicated than that...before another victim goes missing.

Casey Duncan returns in another heart-racing thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong.

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My stars say it all, except if the narrator is reading a book written by a Canadian authour about a thriller that takes place in Canada, she should know how to pronounce “toque” correctly.

Toque

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My only complaint is Casey’s Newfoundland dog
Is not being pronounced properly please correct this in future novels it’s new found land
If you say un der stand pronounced as spelled New found land is the same sound out the three words and you’ll have it right🤤other than that I really enjoy these stories and narrator is very good( with that one exception)

Good story

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Throughout Darkness Absolute, in which the main character is a lifelong resident of Canada, THE NARRATOR PRONOUNCES "Toque" as "TOKE". A CANADIAN. "Toke".
SERIOUSLY?!? How did this recording make it through every editing and quality-checking step, with "TOKE"?!?
Mind-boggling.
Oh, Face-Plant. Found another MASSIVE boo-boo. IN CANADA, "Asian" means, well, Asian. From, or a descendant of someone/people from, Asia, the area to the West of Canada. Saying "Oriental" is NOT even a LITTLE BIT okay. ALSO, it is NOT okay in Canada to assume that all persons with ancestors that came from what is now known as The Indian Subcontinent identify with that locale. There are MANY Canadians who physically resemble people from there, but who descended from families that lived in Africa for many generations. Therefore, most Canadians do NOT echo the racist speak common in, for example, the U.K., of "Oriental" for those of Asian descent and "Asian" for those assumed to be from the "Indian Subcontinent". In Canada, instead, many people publicly self-identify as "Brown", and prefer that term to be used when they are being referred to.
So, in Canada, "Asian" and "Brown" are used, when circumstances require you to refer to someone other than as simply "human" or "Canadian". In other words, NOT VERY OFTEN.

MASSIVE Fail in Pronunciation

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How did no one know how to pronounce "toque"?? It was so distracting. "Bloody toke" would be something else 😳

Pronunciation

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Great story and performance is also
well done but certain Canadian words are being said wrong.

Great story

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