" AUDIO BOOK REVIEW: The story: 5 missionaries are killed by the ultra-violent Waodani tribe in the rain forest of Ecuador. The family stays on. His son grows up among the people who killed his father and comes to consider them family. After going away to college, he returns with his own family, now including teen-aged children, to help these people learn to do for themselves the things that those of us who live in the modern world take for granted; things like building a clinic and learning use modern medicine and building an airstrip to get from place to place without requiring days of arduous bush-whacking. A fascinating people, premise and story. Less fascinating is the reader. I found myself getting tense and aggravated with his delivery and even losing track of the story at times because of it. For the first time I understood the difference between reading a book and performing it. The reader is accomplished enough but seems to have no sense of timing or emphasis. He rushes willy-nilly through sentences and paragraphs only to rather off-handedly throw away their endings. The words he chooses to emphasize often are so far off the mark that I lost track of what he was saying, trying to figure out what he actually meant or wondering why he made the choices he did. If you can concentrate on the story and not be picky about these kinds of issues, go for it. Otherwise, I would recommend just reading the book itself and making your own dramatic choices. "
— Lynn, 1/28/2014