Audiobook: Big Driver by Stephen King
A Rapid Review
Big Driver by Stephen King
Publisher: Simon & Schuster | October 2014
Format: Audio Download | 4½ hours | Rating: 5 stars
Audio Listening Level: Easy
Mystery writer Tess has been supplementing her writing income for years by doing speaking engagements with no problems. But following a last-minute invitation to a book club 60 miles away, she takes a shortcut home with dire consequences.
When Tess’s car gets a flat tire, she accepts help from a man who instead attacks and rapes her, leaving her for dead. Yes, we see this coming, but she’s stuck on a lonely road and in an area with no cell phone service, leaving her few choices.
Big Driver is a classic justice and revenge story with just the right amount of scary to give me the creeps and keep me looking over my shoulder. Being female, this was a horror story for me, but a delightfully satisfying one as Tess saves herself and exacts revenge on her attacker. Who hasn’t taken that leap of faith and then was very thankful when things turned out OK? But in Tess’s case, it didn’t.
If the plot sounds vaguely familiar to some, that’s because this novella was originally published as part of the 2010 anthology, Full Dark, No Stars, and re-released as a tie-in to the recently aired Lifetime movie.
Audio production:
The story was written in the first person and narrated by Jessica Hecht. She uses a wide range of emotion for Tess – at first gentle and timid and eventually the determined and forceful personality Tess becomes. She picked up the pacing as the tension of the story increased, making this an enjoyable, if not somewhat creepy, four and a half hours.
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Source: Review copy provided by the publisher.
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SOLD! I am downloading this one!
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I cannot read Stephen King, it’s just too scary for me, but glad you enjoyed it.
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That was a good one. I listened to it several years ago as part of Full Dark, No Stars collection.
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I read this story as part of the book full dark, no stars. It is the best story in that book. The best thing about it is that, rather then a horror story, it is a story about real people and a possible real situation.
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Although I’m not into creepy, this sounds like a great audiobook!
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Leslie, I’m glad you enjoyed this!
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Hm, they must be releasing all the stories from that collection because I listened to another one from it. This sounds good to me.
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Stephen King is one author who seems to do it all right! This looks good and creepy!
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