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  • Elizabeth Cage, Book 1
  • By: Jodi Taylor
  • Narrated by: Kate Scarfe
  • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (2,429 ratings)
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White Silence

By: Jodi Taylor
Narrated by: Kate Scarfe
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Summary

Elizabeth Cage is a child when she discovers that there are things in this world that only she can see. But she doesn't want to see them, and she definitely doesn't want them to see her.

What is a curse to Elizabeth is a gift to others - a very valuable gift they want to control. When her husband dies, Elizabeth's world descends into a nightmare. But as she tries to piece her life back together, she discovers that not everything is as it seems.

Alone in a strange and frightening world, she's a vulnerable target to forces beyond her control. And she knows that she can't trust anyone....

White Silence is a twisty supernatural thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat.

©2017 Jodi Taylor (P)2017 Audible, Ltd

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Where was the health warning?

This is such an unexpected book. I know and love Jodi Taylor's work, I've read all of her books, some of them three or four times. This is the first that had me scared.

It's not like the St Mary's Chronicles. It had my pulse racing several times. So be warned, and make sure your medication is up to date before reading it if you have a heart complaint. It was as if Jodi Taylor channelled Stephen King!

Another favourite author, Robin Hobb, once said in a blog that a book is only worth 5 stars if it literally put every other part of your life in abeyance till it was finished. That's why I've given 5 stars for White Silence. It was read in a single sitting, only interrupted by the need to feed the dog.


By necessity, I've been reading audio books for more than 30 years, and White Silence is only the second of several thousand books that I didn't listen to, I watched it happen. Jodi Taylor's utterly convincing and immersive style had me right there, every minute.

There is one downside. Having read White Silence in its entirity, on the day it was released, means there's a long wait before I can reasonably expect to find out what happens next.

Thanks so much Jodi Taylor for an incredible thrilling read.

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Enjoyable but Uneven

Strange one this. Without giving too much away my overriding wish would be to have had this story set in the fifties. To achieve this the only changes that would need to be made would be the omission of one reference to a mobile phone. The rest of the story, characters and attitudes are perfectly suited to a past experienced from black and white films. The view of a woman's role (housewife or nurse), children (teatray toboggans and japes climbing trees) and men (moustache and 'off to work' mindset) is really jarring to contemporary ears. I spent the first half of this thinking that the twist was that the protagonists were from the forties, but sadly no. There's a comfortable 'Sunday afternoon drama' type pleasure to the use of language, but the situations are so strangely dated as to grate. A couple of shock (modern) scenes are resolved in the most cringworthy way, and there is no ending. All that said, it's not a bad listen, but aimed i think at the over fifties market. As far as the narration goes it's clear precise diction with a good range of definable characters, but the nurses are Irish or east end, people in authority are posh, children speak like Grange Hill never happened and everyone is definitely white.

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Brilliant

A totally different concept from the 'St Mary's' series, it captured my interest and imagination from the very beginning. Well written with Jodi Taylor's special brand of humour. Much against my principles I listened until midnight to finish. I do hope we don't have to wait too long before the next in the series as the book finished on a cliff hanger!
The narration was excellent too, I haven't come across Kate Scarle before, but she did a worthy job on this book.
Absolutely superb, I will re-read soon as I think I whizzed through it so quickly as I was caught up in the action and wanted to find out what was going to happen!

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Horror Among the Soft Furnishings

Jodi Taylor has a warm and comforting style of writing, parts of this novel actually read a bit like a Hollywood Rom-Com with two of the main characters injecting mild humour into the mid-section in particular. It's the sort of plot line that gently places soft cushions under your head as you read it. However hidden under the covers are some real nasties that occasionally burst through to bite you. It's good writing in terms of getting you behind Taylor's new heroine Elizabeth Cage who has a series of adventures as her life spirals out of control around her due to he rather unusual abilities.

The narration by Kate Scarfe on her Audible UK debut is extremely well suited to the book and you can feel the empathy between her efforts and the author's writing. Without ever getting melodramatic she injected the right pace and suspense when it was required.

The plot shifts and turns. There is love, heartbreak, betrayal and deception. It's a big departure from the St Mary's Chronicles but having created that much-loved series Taylor looks well on course to be creating another in a different genre. Be warned she isn't scared to take liberties with her readers but if you can take the considerable curve balls she throws at you then you'll enjoy batting through this one.

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Damp squib.....

Didn’t really go anywhere, lots of blind alleys with confused plot line that didn’t really make sense. Main Character is supposed to ‘know things’ about people but seemed surprised at events at every turn. Seemed like two or three scooby doo style short stories loosely tied together. Felt I had to see it through until the end but was disappointed with this book and glad to have the option of refund as it didn’t hit the mark and seemed like a waste of my time in the end to be honest.

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Just awful

Love St Mary's and Jodi Taylor, but this was truly awful. I'm generally reluctant to give up on a book, and usually stick with a bad one to the end just in case it comes good. I couldn't do that with this one as the narrator wound me up, the narration was overly melodramatic, kept dropping to a whisper so that you have to rewind to catch bits, and sounded winsome and bored. the characters are not believable, and the plot and motivations really unclear. Gave up 2/3 of the way through.

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Listened to the whole thing in one day

Elements of St Mary's, crossed with Matilda, crossed with The Woman in Black crossed with Russel & Jenny from Frogmorton. Gripping, entertaining fluff.

Also what's with Jodi Taylor and creepy, manipulative, rich doctors?! All of her stories across all of her series include characters who use 'psychological warfare' of one form or another. She's very good at writing it.

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Absolute waste of time

This is probably the worst book I've listened to in years. I finished it out of pure stubbornness and I feel cheated out of those 10 hours of my life I will never be able to get back. Where to start? In general lines, this feels like a mediocre fan fiction written by a middle aged woman bored with her life as a housewife who would like some adventure in her life, but not too much, just in case.

The main character is a complete passive observer to the events happening to her, and she never does anything actively (until the last page where she decides to run away), just lets things happen to her. Her knight in shinning armour is an inconsistent character, whose personality and description don't match at the best of times (being completely contradictory most of the time). The rest of the cast is absolutely bland and plain, forgettable, worthless.

The descriptions and interior monologues are dreadful. At some point she spends ten minutes musing about the drawers in her house, that don't really open and close very smoothly.

The plot happens in three arcs, completely disconnected from each other and absolutely unsatisfactory. The final plot-twist is a scene badly ripped off from 'Carrie' that is revealed to be a dream eventually.

Please, don't waste your time, do something better, go look at the grass grow or something.

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Superficial

This book tried to put in too much. As such It wasn’t convincing on any front and the writing seemed immature and superficial. Sometimes we were hearing about supernatural powers, seeing auras, ghosts, time travel and alternate universes, at other times it wanted to be a story about spies and a thriller. I felt it lacked depth. It didn’t really end but I have no need to read book 2.

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Suspend Belief

I have read several other books by this author and have generally enjoyed the mixture of humour and excitement and tension in the stories. Whilst White Silence is similar in style, I found myself becoming irritated at the main characters apparent lack of awareness of simple figures of authority such as solicitors and policemen whose presence in this story would in my opinion have helped by adding another layer of tension and authenticity. I know this genre requires the reader to suspend belief but for me it was a book with great potential that missed its mark. I did enjoy the warmth of the relationship between the main characters though, so all was not lost.

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