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The Broken Room

By: Peter Clines
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
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“Absolutely brilliant!” (Jonathan Maberry, New York Times best-selling author)

The new supernatural thriller from New York Times best-selling author Peter Clines

You can still owe the dead.

Hector was the best of the best. A government operative who could bring armies to a halt and nations to their knees. But when his own country betrayed him, he dropped off the grid and picked up the first of many bottles.

Natalie can’t remember much of her life before her family brought her to the US, but she remembers the cages. And getting taken away to the Project with dozens of other young children to become part of their nightmarish experiments. That’s how she ended up with the ghost of a dead secret agent stuck in her head.

And Hector owes Natalie’s ghost a big favor.

Now Hector and Natalie are on the run from an army of killers sent to retrieve her. Because the people behind the Project are willing to risk almost anything to get Natalie back and complete their experiments.

©2022 Peter Clines (P)2022 Audible, Inc. Adventure Fiction Science Fiction Fantasy Scary Ghost Haunted
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Good story, but I still preferred Paradox Bound. The narrator is OK, but not as easy to pay attention to as Ray Porter.

Overall, worth a listen. People need to remember it's just a fictional story!

Not suitable for snowflakes who need trigger warnings on everything

Good, but not his best

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The Broken Room by Peter Clines promised an intriguing mix of action, mystery, and heartfelt moments, but it didn’t entirely deliver for me. While the premise of a haunted past and a quest to save a young girl sounded compelling, the story often felt weighed down by its predictability. Plot twists were telegraphed too far in advance, and I found myself anticipating key moments long before they happened. This took away much of the suspense that should have driven the narrative. The pacing, while steady, occasionally felt sluggish, and the characters, though well-crafted, didn’t always make decisions that felt authentic or engaging.

Very hard to listen to at time

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Very confusing towards the end, and not exactly sure why this book couldn't be included in the Threshold Universe due to the supernatural elements, narrator is nothing compared to Ray Porter
And why are people shocked about the kids in Cages and experiments with minimum level of violence that they need trigger warnings just read the 1 star review and you'll understand :)) that's the least disturbing thing in this book, feels like a needles political ploy of it's time as well 2022
Nobody cares outside the US

I assume the reason I give it a mid score is because I keep comparing it with 14 at the back of my head.

Started good, ended bad

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I approached this book as an established fan of Peter Clines' "threshold" series, the nature of which is such that it's hard to say whether this book is an intentional continuation. What's important is that if you enjoyed those books, The Broken Room has all the elements you liked about those in a fresh new package.

The dynamic between the two protagonists - a former SpecOps agent and a pre-teenage girl - is both natural and touching, and each of them get their time to shine. In true style, the story takes a surprising swerve into the weird and unnatural, in ways that will put a smirk on the face of old fans and drop the jaws of new fans. I enjoyed the inclusions of contemporary themes surrounding the treatment of detainees at the US/Mexican border.

Full disclosure: 14 remains my favourite Peter Clines book, but that's mostly because of my personal preference for 'everyday' characters being thrust into a mysterious or threatening situation, as opposed to slick and super-capable ex-military characters. Hector's sections contain plenty of gun-nerding and impressive "over the years" deed-drops which I personally find a little dull, but is sure to please anyone who's enjoyed any spy or military fiction. And for those who don't, like me, these aspects are absolutely not disproprotionate and do not distract from the excellence of the story.

A great Agent story with a Weird Fiction twist

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Once I saw in audible the sentence "From skeptic to obsessed" written about a person reading "14" I got curious and purchased "14"
I got obsessed too - not only by 14 but by the Peter Clines catalogue - minus the X-hero series, which is not my flavor.

So when "The Broken Room" came out, I spent a penny... or at least a credit on it at once and dove into it. Boy I had high expectations... It was a PETER CLINES novel..

But man... was I disappointed. Long before the end I realized that this was a mistake. A bad one. One long boring road-trip. I felt like I was reading a mix of the Stephen King books "The Institute" and "Billy Summers" - both of which also disappointed me - the latter a LOT more than the former.
Perhaps I am just getting on in years fast, and seem to change flavors in books, I don´t know, but nothing in "The Broken Room" appealed to me.. simply nothing.

Just not for me I guess.

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