Not only do the screeching sounds effects and music overlay the narrators, but they are so jarring I found myself having to rewind to figure out what just happened. I have listed to more audiobooks than I can count, and I have never heard one with such awful audio quality. Rose Madder is "an eerie, remarkably mature and moving novel" ( The Washington Post). "Riveting, engrossing.packed with suspense" ( People), Stephen King infuses this novel with an edge-of-your-seat, chilling atmosphere. For Rosie to survive, she must enter her own myth and become a woman she never knew she could be: Rose Madder. He's very good at finding people, even if he is losing his mind.įixed on revenge, Norman Daniels becomes a force of relentless terror and savageness, a man almost mythic in his monstrosity. Norman is a cop, with the instincts of a predator. Still, it's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason. Meeting Bill is one, and getting an apartment is another.
She'll worry about all the rest later.Īlone in a strange city, she begins to make a new life, and good things finally start to happen. She is determined to lose herself in a place where he won't find her. Rosie Daniels leaves her husband, Norman, after 14 years in an abusive marriage. Relentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated.fueled by an air of danger immediate and overwhelming" ( Publishers Weekly). The number-one national best seller about a woman who escapes an abusive marriage is "one of Stephen King's most engrossing horror novels.