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Elsewhere

By: Dean Koontz
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Imani Parks, Josh Bloomberg, Brian Holden, Kevin T. Collins, Soneela Nankani, Alexander Cendese, Amanda Leigh Cobb
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Summary

The fate of the world is in the hands of a father and daughter in an epic novel of wonder and terror by Dean Koontz, the number one New York Times best-selling master of suspense.

Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his 11-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach. It’s a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep.

Ed entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object - something he calls “the key to everything” - and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. But after a visit from a group of ominous men, Jeffy and Amity find themselves accidentally activating the key and discovering an extraordinary truth. The device allows them to jump between parallel planes at once familiar and bizarre, wondrous and terrifying. And Jeffy and Amity can’t help but wonder, could Michelle be just a click away?

Jeffy and Amity aren’t the only ones interested in the device. A man with a dark purpose is in pursuit, determined to use its grand potential for profound evil. Unless Amity and Jeffy can outwit him, the place they call home may never be safe again.

Includes an audio-only short story, "Parlor Trick," a kind of karmic coda to the novel.

©2020 The Koontz Living Trust (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Critic reviews

“Ballerini (a Koontz veteran) is tremendous, and Parks makes strong choices in diction, pronunciation, and pacing to bring Amity Coltrane to life. The collaborative effect of Ballerini and Parks' narration works as a deliberate “all-in” to the production, making the audio version even more of a standout.”—Booklist 

“Colorful, imaginative…a lively, offbeat novel.” —Kirkus Reviews 

“This is a genre-busting work that happily will appeal to readers who enjoy thrillers, horror, sci-fi or just a flat-out well-told story with a breakneck pace that never lets up.” —Bookreporter 

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Tasty Koontz marred by tin-ear casting

If you like Koontz's formula of smart kids, psychopathic villains and quasi-mystical fantasy, you'll enjoy this. All the ingredients are here: including the alternate world scenario, this time accessed by technology instead of special powers. I liked it just enough not to have it totally spoiled for me by the readers. One of them was passable but for some reason best known to themselves, the audiobook producers saw fit to employ a 12-year-old to intone large sections of it in a monotone instead of hiring a trained actor. Go figure.

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Great Story....but....

Great story and plot, but very poor narration (both) detracted from my enjoyment of this book.
A book could be a masterpiece in prose but if the narrator/s are unsuitable there is not much point in issuing it as an audiobook.

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Koontz classic

As this Is a koontz book, I loved it but it was ruined by one thing,the girl who voiced Amity. I found her accent & acting awful,she sounded robotic & annoying as hell. The story was great,his stories always are but that girl's voice was like nails down a chalk board & really hard to take! I still reccomend though because koontz will always be my favourite author ever.

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Interesting but not his best.

I have loved Dean Koontz' books since I was a child, and the best ones were always scary with strange monsters and one or more heroes that struggled but eventually won because good beats evil. I have to say that over the past number of years his books have become a bit sickly sweet, with so much time spent on descriptions of goodness and feelings, and less and less time on the actual story. Some books are better than others, but this one and Devoted are honestly the most sickly sweet he has done...I dont want to say it, but I am leaning more and more towards preferring Stephen King's more recent books...such as the Mr Mercedes trilogy...

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Good story shame about the reader

I thought the concept was good but the reading was very dull. I found it impossible to concentrate on the story line and kept drifting off. I managed to finish the book from curiosity not interest. Shame, I really like the author.

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Koontz back to his best!

One of my all time favourite authors who I felt had lost his way recently but with this and the Jane Hawk books he’s back!
Unfortunately as other reviewers have said I did feel the female narrator let the book down although it didn’t stop me listening! I know she’s supposed to be a child but that doesn’t forgive the poor pronunciation or mistakes in reading the grammar. Luckily for me Edoardo Ballerini is one of my favourite narrators so he saved the day!

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Terrible narration made me stop

I think this is the first book by Dean koontz I’ve not been able to finish, thank god I only paid £2.99 for it. The story might be good but I can’t listen to the young girls voice anymore iirs just a flat, dreary drawn out whine.

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Decent Story, abysmal female narrator,

A mostly entertaining story by Koontz, perhaps not one of his best but definitely entertaining. I do wish I had read this one rather than listening though as the female narrator is awful. She is mostly monotone through her entire performance and to make it worse reads painfully slow with odd pauses at inappropriate times. The only thing that managed to get me through her chapters was by speeding up the narration to 1.3 x normal speed. however as the make narrator reads at a normal speed I had to keep changing the speed chapter to chapter which really took the shine off the experience for me.

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A bit silly

Simple story. Feels like something targeted at the teen market, assuming you ignore the language.

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Poor Female Narrative

I couldn't get past the bad narration for Amity. Made it to chapter 12 and pushed on to 16 until I couldnt handle it any longer.

Guess I'll have to read this one.

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