Narrator: Thriller Novel for Mystery Lovers

This is a spoiler free review. Unfortunately, to keep it that way, I am unable to comment on some of the ways that Landon Beach deviates from his normal writing style that really stood out to me. You will just have to read all of his books--which I recommend--and discover for yourself.It has been many years since I read a book that I couldn't put down. When I first started "Narrator" by Landon Beach, I carried it everywhere with me. I would read a couple pages even if I only had five minutes to spare. When I wasn't reading, I was deliberating plot points in my head in an attempt to predict what would happen next. Beach delivers an extremely engaging book with very deep characters and surprises galore, so if you love intricately woven thrillers, this is a must read book of the summer!"Narrator" starts in a similar vein to Stephen King's "Misery" where MC Shawn Frost, a top talent audio book narrator, finds himself kidnapped. Unlike "Misery", where most of the story focuses on the captivity, pathos of the captor, and escape, "Narrator" resolves the kidnapping conflict in the first quarter of the book and turns it's focus on how the MC copes with the trauma. We begin to learn a lot more about the history of Frost and how, despite his current career success, damaged he is. Beach has written fabulously about hardship, addiction, and loss in his other books, but "Narrator" takes the reader to a new level. I could vividly feel Frost's pain and could empathize with his self doubt as he struggled through recovery. Beach's ability to pack emotion into a story is second to none and it will be hard to walk away from this book without an emotional impact.The one plot element that I advise readers to keep an eye on is the story within a story within a story. That is all I will say about it. You will know what I am referring to once you get to the appropriate part of the story. This plot element is extremely well done and I am left wondering if all the correlations that I made between fact and fiction were intended by Beach. This element is just one of many examples of Beach's master storytelling ability.