Joe Bliven

A Good Marriage (Simon Schuster Audiobook)
By Stephen King

August 28th, 2018

This was a really good story. The execution felt real even though the premise was a bit silly or hackneyed. This could have been a short story but was long enough to be considered a novella, it did not however feel dragged out or padded with filler. When the story felt like it would be over soon it kept going but was never unwelcome and never got stale. The last part was great and totally unexpected, you thought the suspense was over and everything had been tied in a nice bow and then. boom, the rug gets pulled out from under you and you're back on the edge of your seat.

Now about the audiobook reader. At the beginning I felt her voice was unsuitable for the story. She reads almost as if it were a children's story or a wistful romance novel. Her voice she uses for the husband sounds like a sick frog and never sounds right, which is picky I know since audiobook readers never can read the opposite sex well. But during the main chunk of the book which is the wife's long internal struggle she really nails the part. I think someone else could have done a better job with the overall story but she was good enough. I actually started this book and 15 minutes in I gave up on it because of the narrator. Eventually though I ran out of audiobooks on a long road trip and gave in to this story and am glad I did, even if the beginning is horribly read.