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jammersbookstacks's review
5.0
This book is not for the faint of heart. This is intense from page one and doesn’t slow down. I promise this is I’ll take you on a ride that you are gasping for air!!
AUDIOBOOK: A Caller’s Game
AUTHOR: JD Barker
NARRATORS
Mia Barron & Brian Hutchison
SOURCE: I actually found this on @netgalley when their audios were synthesized. So I waited until I found it on @librofm
LENGTH: 12 Hrs and 16 min at 1X speed
PUBLISHER: @recordedbooks
PUBLISHED: March 2021
This book is described as Die Hard crossed with a Talk Show. Well it’s all that for sure and a bag of chips!! I would love all the thriller/horror lovers to listen or read this book. It’s intense and keeps you completely engaged from page one. Read the trigger warnings in this book - there are quite a few potential triggers.
This is where the terror begins, “I’m going to offer you a choice.”
That’s a live phone in on Jordan Briggs’ radio talk show. She has built herself a spot on the top of the recording world. Well as we know with all good books - she has a past! And someone knows.
As the world outside her recording studio is literally exploding, here enters the cop, Officer Cole Hundley.
The thing we don’t know is how deadly this game is going to get and who the hell is calling in to the talk show. . .
Its the Caller’s Game and boy oh boy it’s a game that should have never been played over the radio!
AUDIOBOOK: A Caller’s Game
AUTHOR: JD Barker
NARRATORS
Mia Barron & Brian Hutchison
SOURCE: I actually found this on @netgalley when their audios were synthesized. So I waited until I found it on @librofm
LENGTH: 12 Hrs and 16 min at 1X speed
PUBLISHER: @recordedbooks
PUBLISHED: March 2021
This book is described as Die Hard crossed with a Talk Show. Well it’s all that for sure and a bag of chips!! I would love all the thriller/horror lovers to listen or read this book. It’s intense and keeps you completely engaged from page one. Read the trigger warnings in this book - there are quite a few potential triggers.
This is where the terror begins, “I’m going to offer you a choice.”
That’s a live phone in on Jordan Briggs’ radio talk show. She has built herself a spot on the top of the recording world. Well as we know with all good books - she has a past! And someone knows.
As the world outside her recording studio is literally exploding, here enters the cop, Officer Cole Hundley.
The thing we don’t know is how deadly this game is going to get and who the hell is calling in to the talk show. . .
Its the Caller’s Game and boy oh boy it’s a game that should have never been played over the radio!
jammersbookstacks's review against another edition
5.0
This book is not for the faint of heart. This is intense from page one and doesn’t slow down. I promise this is will take you on a ride that and leave you gasping for air!!
This book is described as Die Hard crossed with a Talk Show. Well it’s all that for sure and a bag of chips!! I would love all the thriller/horror lovers to listen or read this book. It’s intense and keeps you completely engaged from page one. Read the trigger warnings in this book - there are quite a few potential triggers.
This is where the terror begins, “I’m going to offer you a choice.”
That’s a live phone in on Jordan Briggs’ radio talk show. She has built herself a spot on the top of the recording world. Well as we know with all good books - she has a past! And someone knows.
As the world outside her recording studio is literally exploding, here enters the cop, Officer Cole Hundley.
The thing we don’t know is how deadly this game is going to get and who the hell is calling in to the talk show. . .
Its the Caller’s Game and boy oh boy it’s a game that should have never been played over the radio!
This book is described as Die Hard crossed with a Talk Show. Well it’s all that for sure and a bag of chips!! I would love all the thriller/horror lovers to listen or read this book. It’s intense and keeps you completely engaged from page one. Read the trigger warnings in this book - there are quite a few potential triggers.
This is where the terror begins, “I’m going to offer you a choice.”
That’s a live phone in on Jordan Briggs’ radio talk show. She has built herself a spot on the top of the recording world. Well as we know with all good books - she has a past! And someone knows.
As the world outside her recording studio is literally exploding, here enters the cop, Officer Cole Hundley.
The thing we don’t know is how deadly this game is going to get and who the hell is calling in to the talk show. . .
Its the Caller’s Game and boy oh boy it’s a game that should have never been played over the radio!
jillmlong's review against another edition
3.0
This is a fast paced action thriller that ramps up the action and explosions as the book progresses. I listened to the audio book and the narrators were fantastic. I felt like I was listening to a movie. My biggest critique is that I needed to suspend my belief that any of this could happen.
lisaleestboeken's review
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
goodneighborbooks's review against another edition
5.0
J.D. Barker has cemented his place as one of my favorite mystery/thriller authors with, A Caller's Game. I can't wait to get this one into my customer's hands.
connie575's review
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
meijke's review
fast-paced
4.0
The pace of the book is fast. I found it very entertaining and couldn't put it down. You just keep reading because you want to know how it ends. I found it all a bit unrealistic, but it's fiction after all so I don't mind. I liked that the detective wasn't a divorced man with an alcohol problem, which was a refreshing change. I highly recommend it because it was genuinely thrilling—I can't say it enough. By the way, if you're into explosions, this is definitely THE book for you.
marilynw's review against another edition
4.0
A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker
I came into A Caller's Game knowing that there would be explosions (an understatement, if there ever was one). The book has been compared to Die Hard and I'll never read or watch a Die Hard book or movie but I loved Barker's She Has a Broken Thing Where Her Heart Should Be and the characters that he creates. He does know how to create both characters that I really like and characters have me ranting at the book.
In the category of characters that I despised we have Jordan Briggs, a wealthy, controversial talk radio host, willing to skewer and slay any and everybody, regardless of consequences. In fact, in her past are dead and living victims of one of her talk radio pranks that went very, very wrong and now one such person is on the line, giving Jordan deadly choices, choices that always result in death. Think "eye for an eye" with massive collateral damage.
In the category of characters that I like, we have Detective Cole, recently knocked down to traffic police for an offence that we will discover later. Cole, along with a few other characters, is the reason I enjoyed the book. I can only take so much death and devastation but it helps when I have someone that we get to "know", that I'm rooting for, along with all the nameless potential victims of the destruction to come.
In Barker's collaboration with James Patterson, The Coast-to-Coast Murders, I lamented the extremely short chapters. With this book, we have long, meaty chapters and that's something I appreciate. Characters are my favorite thing about books and I'm glad we had some "good" characters, amongst all the explosions.
Publication February 22th 2021
Thank you to J.D. Barker, Hampton Creek Press, and NetGalley for this ARC.
I came into A Caller's Game knowing that there would be explosions (an understatement, if there ever was one). The book has been compared to Die Hard and I'll never read or watch a Die Hard book or movie but I loved Barker's She Has a Broken Thing Where Her Heart Should Be and the characters that he creates. He does know how to create both characters that I really like and characters have me ranting at the book.
In the category of characters that I despised we have Jordan Briggs, a wealthy, controversial talk radio host, willing to skewer and slay any and everybody, regardless of consequences. In fact, in her past are dead and living victims of one of her talk radio pranks that went very, very wrong and now one such person is on the line, giving Jordan deadly choices, choices that always result in death. Think "eye for an eye" with massive collateral damage.
In the category of characters that I like, we have Detective Cole, recently knocked down to traffic police for an offence that we will discover later. Cole, along with a few other characters, is the reason I enjoyed the book. I can only take so much death and devastation but it helps when I have someone that we get to "know", that I'm rooting for, along with all the nameless potential victims of the destruction to come.
In Barker's collaboration with James Patterson, The Coast-to-Coast Murders, I lamented the extremely short chapters. With this book, we have long, meaty chapters and that's something I appreciate. Characters are my favorite thing about books and I'm glad we had some "good" characters, amongst all the explosions.
Publication February 22th 2021
Thank you to J.D. Barker, Hampton Creek Press, and NetGalley for this ARC.
sandracabanes's review against another edition
2.0
Le he dado otra oportunidad al autor y no ha salido muy bien, supongo que seré yo. Empezando por lo bueno, es un libro que se lee muy rápido porque sabe cómo cortar los capítulos y que estos sean de una extensión justita para que los lectores no se cansen (ya sabemos que vivimos en una sociedad de la inmediatez y eso parece que últimamente es muy importante en los libros) y en sí es entretenido, además lo diálogos son fluidos. Lo que no me ha gustado es qie en ningún momento me he sentido dentro del libro ni me han importado los personajes, me daba igual quién pudiera morir. También es nulo a la hora de ambientarnos los lugares (esto restaría inmediatez a los lectores y es intolerable, claro). Nombrar una calle o un distrito de Nueva York NO es ambientar, al menos dame alguna pista de cómo es un lugar que seguramente no conozco. Solo se detine a ser más descriptivo cuando hay explosiones y, al menos yo, necesito que me proporcione algo más de información para hacerme una imagen mental. La trama en sí me parece un poco un despropósito, los motivos los hemos visto en miles de sitios antes y creo que la escala es demasiado desproporcionada en comparación al detonante (lo digo así para no hacer spoiler). Como bien dice el autor en los Agradecimientos, escribe libros para "coger palomitas", y me gusta que sea sincero consigo mismo (creo que dicha nota de Agradecimientos es lo que más me ha gustado del libro). No esperaba encontrar una reflexión que me cambiase la vida, no voy buscando eso al coger un libro.
En resumen, es el argumento de la típica película de acción que no hace mucha taquilla a no ser que la protagonice algún actor con premios Óscar a la espalda.
En resumen, es el argumento de la típica película de acción que no hace mucha taquilla a no ser que la protagonice algún actor con premios Óscar a la espalda.