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China White

The Styvie Savard Series, Book 1

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China White

Written by: Sarah Richards
Narrated by: Juliette Gosselin
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Styvie Savard was a damn good cop - before she made a mistake that cost her everything. Now she lives in her car, works a dead-end job, and scrapes by on the fumes of a dwindling savings account. Life couldn’t get much worse, until it does. One morning on the way to work, Styvie hits a 16-year-old, Dharma, with her car. When the injured girl flees the scene, Styvie finds that she can’t leave well enough alone.

Propelled by ghosts from her own complicated past, Styvie is determined to find the girl and make things right. In her pursuit, Styvie confronts Dharma’s brother, Jeremy, a violent addict working as a distributor in a fentanyl drug ring; and Dharma’s husband, Glen, who heads a pseudo-Eastern-religious cult.

Styvie becomes obsessed with freeing the teenaged Dharma from Glen’s clutches and bringing Jeremy down. In doing so, she forms a tenuous and clandestine arrangement with her ex-boyfriend, Detective Constable Dennison Lee. Going undercover reignites her love for law enforcement and polishes her rusty sleuthing skills. At first it seems as if she could slide right back into her old life, but when Styvie develops an unshakable bond with Dharma, the lines between right and wrong blur.

In the end, Styvie must make a choice: chase down her old badge and recoup her losses or follow her instinct and save Dharma from a future she doesn’t deserve.

©2021 Sarah Richards (P)2021 Audible Originals, LLC
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About the Writer

China White, Sarah’s debut novel, was a finalist in the 2018 HarperCollins Best New Fiction Prize before its release as an Audible Original in 2021. Her short stories, reviews, and interviews have appeared in carte blanche, Prism International, The Puritan, Rusty Toque, Room Magazine, The Cardiff Review, The Danforth Review, Eclectica, Fox Adoption, and UNBUILD walls, and she has published non-fiction work with Lonely Planet and BBC.com, among others.

Sarah lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she teaches English at Langara College and volunteers as a literacy mentor in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

About the Narrator

Juliette Gosselin is an actor, director, and screenwriter. At the age of 12, she got her first major film role in the feature film Nouvelle-France, alongside Gérard Depardieu. She then appeared in numerous films, including Familia, Délivrez-moi, Tu dors Nicole, 1991, and Fabuleuses. She played lead roles in André Forcier's last two feature films, Embrasse-moi comme tu m'aimes and Les fleurs oubliées. Proficiently bilingual, she also co-starred with Nick Krause and Molly Parker in Darwin. On television, she can be seen in Histoire de Famille, Le berceau des anges, 19-2, Demain des hommes, This Life, L'Académie, and Fragile. She will soon be in the series Virage.

Juliette co-wrote and co-directed the three seasons of her webseries Switch and Bitch on Tou.tv, in which she also plays a role. She is currently writing a feature film with Sophia Belahmer.

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Excellent Book, from Start to Finish

This book was a delight to read. The plot was gripping all the way through, and the protagonist is likable and complex. The writing style is beautiful and immersive. I was completely pulled into the world. This author has a great talent for description and creating unique, interesting characters. The book also offers an important commentary on some pressing social issues. In addition, I thoroughly enjoyed the narration. It was lively and expressive. I can't wait for the next book in the series to come out.

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Just OK

Maybe just not my cup of tea but I did read/listen to it all. I particularly did not like the ending. I felt it needed to be tidied up a bit.

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this narrator had a great sound. I liked her BUT..

I like this narrator's tone and intonation but her ability to Analyze the script was hindered by her French-speaking 1st language and 1st language and her pronunciation of a lot of English words cities and phrases left the story lacking. her pauses were sometimes annoying but the story really made up for it and kept me listening.

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Complicated Relationships

A raw look at right and wrong. The line and how it is different for all us. Who is guilty and who is a victim. A interesting study of human nature.

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so so story good performance

Storyline didn't grab my attention so struggled to finish it. Juliette's reading was good, the only reason I did finish it.

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China white

What a fantastic book. Well written and very well narrated. Highly recommend listening to this book.

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Narrator ruins a decent story

I nearly stopped listening to this novel because the person reading the story is so annoying. This is definitely a reading of the book rather than a performance.

The premise for the story is original, as are the main characters.

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Main character is terrible and storyline bad

I disliked the main character, Stevie, about 1/2 way through and never recovered to cheer for her. she deserved all the bad things that happened to her. Terrible finish to the book and wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone. Decent voice actress though

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The story was not bad, a tad different then your typical 'Who done it". The narrator sounded like a teenager even thought the main character was in her 40 which annoyed me. Would have been better with a different narrator.

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Terrible Narration

The story on this one was fairly compelling but the narrator pulled me out of it many times with horrible pronunciation and bland telling. It was as though she was reading it for the first time with little or no research on her subject or location. I recall thinking if I hear her say recognize as "reconize" on more time I'll stop. Other words which drove me a bit crazy were, Chilliwack as "Chilly-wack" & formica as "for-mick-a". Too bad as she has a pretty cool voice all in all. Would have loved to hear her try some characterization a bit.

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