The Second Wife
The Second Wife Series, Book 1
By: Kishan Paul
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
Unabridged
Release date: 11-21-17
Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Audio
I read this book back in 2015 when it was first released, my
thoughts on it hasn’t changed much at all. I will be redoing my review to
incorporate my thoughts on the audio. I do have to add that this story is so
different from the writing I am used to from this author it really delivers
quite a push in so many ways. As the book takes off you will be going on an
adventure with many twist and turns that will hold you on the edge making you
want to cry, hold your breath and do a little cursing of your own. It is a wild
ride of deceit, abuse, anger, hurt, pain, lose and adduction that will stay
with you long after you put the audio/book down. I have only had one other
audio affect me in the same way it too was just like The Second Wife both hold
you spellbound giving you a listen you can’t put down.
I have never listened to any of Ms. Arserio’s work but was
very delighted to find that I own a few of the books she narrator and can get
the audio at a discount. What Ms. Arserio brings to the table is a delightful audio
that holds you as spellbound as the author does. Her voice blends very well in
this story really bring it to life making you feel you right in the room
watching it happen and taking the fallout just as Alisha/Sarah is. There were
not any background noises, no repeating of wording, if any breaks were taken I
could not tell. I loved her accents that really make the story more believable.
Her character voices are very smooth, interesting and really great. Her male
voices really fit the characters as well as her female ones. You have no
trouble knowing who is talking and just what they are feeling. I found myself
pulling back as Ally went through her trials trying to hold on to anything that
will help her get through to the next day. Have no doubts that this narrator
really bring this story to life making it come alive in your mind. There are no
words to tell you just how much her narration affected me making me feel just
as if I was there looking in as the evil man takes his pleasure on a women he
had no right to hold. I am totally blown away with her performance.
What the author brings to the table is an outstanding read
of survival, getting even, taking back your life, facing your fears as you face
your past which you have lost and learning to start over again when you do not
know which way to turn. In my first review I said I can’t even image what Ally
went through but after listening to the audio I felt every rape, hit etc she
did. Not many things brings me to tears but as I write this I have tears in my
eyes. I really didn’t know how much it affected me until I try to put in words
my thoughts. What this audio does is put you in another’s person shoes living
day to day in a country you do not knowing the language not having any friends
to talk to, having people hate you for no other reason than you being there,
you only a doctor you’re not sure of and
a husband who isn't your husband that does cruel unspeakable things to you but
at the same time believing you are there for his pleasure and you are happy about
it, that your all lives are wonderful. Than to be taken, raped and beaten over
and over again for little or no reason is just more than your mind can handle.
Day after day watching an evil man using whatever he can to keep you in control
letting him do what he wants, not trying to escape for fear of what he will do
the ones you love.
Alisha is a sweet wonderful caring lady that gives so much
of herself to everyone. She has/had a wonderful husband who adores her. A
loving family that bring a smile to her face with their love. She has the best
and everything any women could want until the day she walked outside and
someone took her to a new country, killed people in front of her and became her
worse nightmare. She prays for someone to come get her and take her home. She
prays for the love of her life until the day she sees a picture and knows her
life is over. She has nowhere to go, no one to love and no reason to live until
the day she built her new family from those around her that are going through the
same things she is. Will this nightmare ever end? Will she ever find a way out
and a place to call hers?
David remembers it like it was yesterday even through it has
been two years since the love of his life came up missing. He has turned over
every stone, she is nowhere but in his dreams. Those wonderful dreams at night
when he is asleep she comes to him he reaches out and touches her only to wake
and find she is gone. After two long painful years he has found someone who can
make him smile again. If she could only make him forget.....until the day a man
came to him and said your wife is alive and is the second wife of another man.
He leaves no stone unturned as he finds away to get to her and bring her home
but will it be too late?
What made this such an outstanding listen/read for me is the
plot and the writing style of this author and the way the narrator delivers
each scene in her almost cold tones it makes chills rundown you spine. The
audio adds so much really grabbing your attention and not letting it go until
the last page. You will not want this story to end you will want to know what
happens next, do they make it, will they be able to bring their selves out of
the darkest time in their life or will the darkness pull them under?
This is a very believable plot with some wonderful caring
characters. Some you will love and others you will want to kill yourself. If I
could have gotten in the story I would have gladly have taken a few out. I was
begging for the knife, a gun to be handed to me to just give me a few minutes
with the ones that had taken her and changed that sweet smiling girl into a
very cold person whose smiles never reaches her eyes, a person who bends to
their will, giving others control. I promise she would be smiling from not only
her eyes but her soul when I was done.
What I really like about this story is the author gives you
all the fact without throwing them in your face. You know what happen and you
know it is terrible but you do not read all the details. You can feel the pain
of the victim as she is rape and beaten but it is told in a way that your mind
can handle it. There are so many victims all because of one man who thinks he
is better than anyone else that he deserves to have what he wants when he wants
it. No one said no to him if they do he kills them or takes them. No one has
been able to stop him. Alisha believes she can and will die trying, she has
nothing to lose and nothing to live for. He must die, his evil must be stopped.
There is many more beside her that have paid his price. She vows no more will
die, no one will do anything against their will because of him, he will not
take another and putting them through what he did her.
David isn't walking away he will make this man pay for what
he has not only done to him but his wife, the women he adores, the love of his
life. He will not leave Pakistani without her, no man will ever hurt his
beloved Ally again, and those who have will pay dearly at his own hands. Now it
becomes a fight to the death who will live and who will die.
This is one book I could not put down it held my interest
like no other one has in awhile. There were times my mouth fell open my hand
covered it. There were times I was close to tears as the author took me through
the pages of hurt and pain. Many times I thought let me in a room with him and
I will happily take him out. It has been a long time since a story has touched
me so deep that I felt it all the way to my soul. I love the fact that it is
told in a way that shouldn't trip any wires in your brain if you have been
abused. It is a story you can relate to without having to read word for word
what was done. This is one audio/book that will never get old it will always
hold you spellbound as it did when you first read/listened to it. It is one you
will want to listen to again and again. I think most who read this will not be
able to walk away without being touched in some way. I know this review does
not to justice to this book there are no words to say just how much it affected
me, or what my feel are as you are taken to another place and another time
living through your worst nightmare. I highly recommend you pick up The Second
Wife and give it a read. I honestly can’t wait for the next book to come out in
audio taking off where this one left off. It is a spellbound read as much as
this one was.
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Summary
Twenty-eight-year-old psychologist Alisha Dimarchi is abducted by an
obsessed client and imprisoned in his Pakistani compound for over two years.
Forced to change her name and live as his second wife, her life is filled with
trauma and heartbreak. Thrust into a world of violence and oppression, Ally
must fight not only to keep herself alive, but to protect the lives of the
people she now considers family. At night, she retreats into her memories of
the only man she has ever loved - a man she believes no longer loves her. Thirty-four-year-old handsome surgeon David Dimarchi has spent the last two years mourning the disappearance of his wife. After a painful and isolated existence, he begins the process of healing. It is then he is visited by a stranger, who informs him that Ally is very much alive and needs his help. In a desperate attempt to save her, David enlists the help of a mercenary. Together they find themselves in the center of more than just a rescue mission. Will he be able to reach her in time, and, if he does, will she still want him?
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