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    All Unquiet Things

    Written by Anna Jarzab

    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain and Allyson Ryan

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    About this audiobook

    A riveting thriller set at a California prep school!

    Carly: She was sweet. Smart. Self-destructive. She knew the secrets of Brighton Day School's most privileged students. Secrets that got her killed.

    Neily: Dumped by Carly for a notorious bad boy, Neily didn't answer the phone call she made before she died. If he had, maybe he could have helped her. Now he can't get the image of her lifeless body out of his mind.

    Audrey: She's the reason Carly got tangled up with Brighton's fast crowd in the first place, and now she regrets it-especially since she's convinced the police have put the wrong person in jail. Audrey thinks the murderer is someone at Brighton, and she wants Neily to help her find out who it is.

    As reluctant allies Neily and Audrey dig into their shared past with Carly, her involvement with Brighton's dark goings-on comes to light. But figuring out how Carly and her killer fit into the twisted drama will force Audrey and Neily to face hard truths about themselves and the girl they couldn't save.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 12, 2010
    ISBN9780307706324
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    • 2/5
      dnf-ed at about 2/3 because wow I just do not care about anyone in this book. the writing is very stilted and awkward, there are constant time jumps that are very convoluted, and the voices of our two protagonists are very similar and difficult to distinguish from one another
    • 5/5
      Carly was a sweet girl with a wonderful personality. She was pretty and popular; vivacious and funny. She was as smart as a whip and knew everything about the privileged student body of the Brighton Day School. As much as he still loves her, it's disturbing for Neily to see how much his girlfriend has changed: she has begun running with a much faster crowd, and become extremely self-destructive.When she suddenly dumps him for a notorious bad boy, Neily is devastated. Bewildered and angered by Carly's strange behavior, he steadfastly doesn't answer the phone whenever she calls. However, what initially seems like a typical teenage reaction to a difficult breakup, becomes tinged with sadness and regret after Carly is murdered. Neily is ultimately wracked with grief and guilt for his own stubbornness.If he had answered the call she had made before she died, he may have been able to help her. Now, he can't get the image of her lifeless body out of his mind. Desperately hoping to assuage some of the guilt he feels about her death, Neily reluctantly teams up with Carly's cousin Audrey to find her killer. After all, it is the last thing they can do to honor her memory.Audrey is dealing with her own regrets over her cousin's death. She was the reason Carly got tangled up with Brighton's fast crowd in the first place, and she will have to live with the consequences of that decision on her conscience for the rest of her life. Because Audrey is convinced of two things about Carly's death: someone at Brighton is obviously a murderer, and the police have put the wrong person in jail. So, she turns to Neily for help in finding Carly's killer.As Neily and Audrey begin to investigate their shared history with Carly, her dealings with Brighton's seedier elements come to light. For the amateur sleuths, these are shocking revelations that lead them to wonder if Carly actually knew something that could have gotten her killed. However, figuring out how Carly and her killer fit together into the twisted drama of Brighton's secretive world will force the reluctant allies to face some harsh truths about themselves and the girl they couldn't save.To be perfectly honest, I found some of the pettiness between the characters to be slightly annoying. Having said that, I still enjoyed reading the book. I would give this book a definite A!
    • 3/5
      So, how about that ending?

      One day, I went to the library and picked this book up because the blurb mentioned that it was a psychological suspense novel. I'm a huge fan of psychological suspense. It's one of my favourite genres. So I picked it up and read it, without reading any reviews about this. The cover is gorgeous and haunting and the blurb sold me.

      Once I finished the novel, the only thing going through my head was this. The ending was rushed and was incredibly unsatisfying. I didn't figure out who the real murderer was, but that's mainly because I stopped caring many chapters ago.

      I will say that the writing was great. I like Anna Jarzab's style and will probably read more of her books in the future. But I just couldn't get into this, despite how badly I wanted to. It had everything I love from a psychological novel. Great plot, flawed characters, and good writing.

      And when I first started to read this, I was already prepared to love it. Even though I found all the characters to be insufferable, they felt real so I could forgive it. Neily is a judgmental jerkwad, but he's still interesting and kept the plot moving forward. I appreciated that. But once we got to the Audrey chapters it seemed the story stalled. I kept hoping Neily would come back, but once he did I was already out of it.

      I did continue to read this though, so that is a huge plus. But that ending.....






    • 3/5
      I had a hard time with the alternating points of view. There was times I would be reading, and I would forget if I was reading from Audrey's or Neily's point of view. The mystery of the plot is one to keep you guessing until the last moment. The story is about how keeping secrets leads to terrible events.
    • 4/5
      The Short of ItSecrets lead to death; mystery unsolved.The Long of ItNeily first met Carly in middle school. It was his first day interviewing for a very elite and academically challenging program. Carly made him feel at home and they were immediately inseparable. Until Carly decided that she needed a change, years later, and dumped Neily to hang out with her cousin Audrey and the “in” crowd. Then, one night Carly calls Neily repetitively. He refuses to answer the phone, still pretty pissed about the breakup. Those are phone calls that Neily will beat himself up over for not answering. Carly ends up dead. Murdered. The police convict Audrey’s father for the murder, but Aurdrey doesn’t believe it. A year later, she enlists Neily to delve deep into the lies and scandals of the in-crowd to prove her father’s innocence and find closure. The Thoughts about ItAll Things Unquiet is told in alternating voices of Neily and Audrey. I found this a bit distracting because the chapters are miniature-sized, but rather we’re inside Neily’s mind, for say, a hundred or so pages and then all of a sudden we step into Audrey’s for twenty or thirty and then back to Neily. (1) By the time I got to Audrey it felt forced and unnatural. Besides that one gripe, though, the mystery was GREAT. It really had me guessing up until the last page. And then, when it was finally revealed, I was like “OMG, OF COURSE!”. Seriously. I don’t read enough mysteries to suggest that this is the end-all-be-all, but it was misleading, so that’s gotta mean something right?(1) This is a loose estimation. I could easily pull the book off of the bookshelf for an accurate and precise number, but I’m just that lazy and refuse. *grin*
    • 5/5
      I don't know how long its been since I've read a good mystery, and I think I had never read a YA murder-mystery before. I absolutely adored this book. The ironic part is I was so sure I had everything figured out. I would totally starve as a detective. The ending shocked me and left me in awe. I was so unprepared of what happened. I believed throughout the whole story and convinced myself that I knew what was going on because there was no way to surprise me with such an obvious plot. Silly me. Should have known better. This book deserves far more praise than what it has gotten.The writing was incredible. The alternating points of view felt smooth and believable, I love the way she did it. And the characters felt incredibly realistic. The plot was slow-moving, which is also ironic because in one of my last reviews I stated that a slow plot is not always a bad thing. Here is the proof. The pace worked perfectly in this one. I was sometimes desperate, almost willing to step ahead to find out the truth, but that always happens in a mystery.Overall, it was definitely refreshing to read something different yet still made of awesome. If you enjoy crime stories and contemporary realistic fiction this is the one for you.
    • 4/5
      Carly has been murderd about a year ago and the murder still haunts her exboyfriend.He wants to find out who killed her once and for all.So does her cousin so they team up and try to find out who killed her and you sure will be surprised who did.
    • 4/5
      Much more intense than I expected it to be! This looked like it was going to be a generic spoiled-rich-kid mystery, and I’m glad I gave it a chance instead of writing it off.
    • 5/5
      Carly was murdered at the beginning of her junior year of high school. Her ex-boyfriend, Neily, is the one who found her body, shot three times in the chest. Carly's uncle was convicted of the murder, but Carly's cousin Audrey doesn't believe her father to be the murderer. At the beginning of their senior year, Neily and Audrey unite to find the real murderer.Told in five chunks, Neily and Audrey take turns telling their side of the unfolding mystery. Their stories flip back and forth between their senior year and past experiences with Carly. I found the whole story very realistic. The information they find and how they find it that leads to the murderer worked for me. What I mean is that it wasn't out of the realm of possibility.Jarzab's style of writing is addicting. It flowed. There was never a boring or slow part in the plot. I stayed up until 2:30am to find out the end of the story and then all the next day I just kept thinking about the story and the characters. It actually reminded me of the first season of Veronica Mars. Which was cool.Having said all that I do have an issue with the morality of the characters. Neily, Audrey, and Carly all had sex mulitiple times, Carly with multiple people, when they were only fifteen. Really?
    • 3/5
      This story is told in alternating narrative, shifting between Neily and Audrey. In some ways I wish that the entire book had been told from only one point of view, which I’ll explain a bit later, but the dual perspectives do add a richness to the story that wouldn’t have been achieved otherwise. Through frequent flashbacks, as well as a few snippets from her journal, we see Carly go from a smart, independent-studying eighth-grader to an almost-junior on a downward spiral. At times she is cheerful and loving, and at others she is vicious and cruel. Nobody experienced the changes in her personality more than Neily, who loved her almost from the moment he met her, and continued to love her despite the fact that he hated her, too. While I liked the fact Carly wasn’t just remembered fondly after her death, I felt that the explanation given for her change in behavior was too simplistic. It seems too easy to attribute her changing personality to just one thing. In my experience, there’s never just one reason a person makes such a major change like that. There were instances when Carly came across as too conscious of her motivations during that time period, and it bothered me that she continued to act the way she did in spite of that. But the fact is that sometimes people can’t stop themselves even when they know they should, and in that respect Carly feels genuine. Mysteries are often difficult for me to read because I go in suspecting everyone, so I think I pick up things that a lot of people miss. In that vein, I’m not sure the structure of this book worked for me. Because of the dual perspectives, I figured out who the killer was earlier than I wanted to. Once I reached that conclusion, all attempts to look in another direction were lost on me. While I know that a lot of mysteries are written in such a way that the reader figures out the mystery before the narrator, I didn’t get the feeling that that’s what was happening in this book. It was because of the fact that two people were narrating the book that I figured this plot point out so soon. However, I don’t think the story would have worked without both perspectives because of how the killer comes into the story. Other than the problem posed by the alternating perspective, I found that the writing was excellent. Neily’s emotions were excellently displayed in various moments of his relationship with Carly. Sometimes flashbacks like these can trip up the pacing of the current-day portion of a book, but I didn’t find that to be the case in this book. Neily and Audrey’s investigation moves at a decent pace. While both of them are well-written characters, I think that Neily had more depth than Audrey.Overall I enjoyed this book, but I was hoping to find a little more mystery to it than it gave me.
    • 5/5
      Slow start, but once the storyline picked up a bit, I found it really enjoyable.
    • 4/5
      Between all of the books that I read last year, and the ones I’ve read so far this year All Unquiet Things was like a breath of fresh air right off the coast. This book really epitomizes everything that I enjoy in my favourite types of books, fun, fast-paced (at times), full of mystery with characters that you actually like. The only thing that threw me off of it was the beginning, the first part which was mainly about Neily and his past with Carly was a little slow, I kept reading because I knew that dude, there’s a dead person in here somewhere, but it definitely took a bit of effort. I however, never wanted to put the book down either, it wasn’t boring, it wasn’t repetitive (although Neily was a little emo for my liking, but then again I probably would be if my boyfriend/girlfriend had been killed too) it was just a little slow.The plot for the most part was solid, it led you around in circles but in a good way. I swear I thought I knew who the ‘bad guy’ was about a hundred times before it finally clicked in my head, and the pieces fit together. You don’t really expect who the real ‘bad guy’ is until about half way through the book when you get to know Audrey a little more and the people that her and Carly hung around with, and even then there are about a thousand sketchy people that could fit the role. The ending was refreshing, it wasn’t a pre-packaged ‘everything is okay and the world is perfect’ ending. It was a little brutal, but then really sweet but not in the way I think some people might expect.The characters are also very believable and very far from being perfect in the sense that they all have flaws, and sometimes unwavering and unforgivable ones. You get to know them all fairly well, but the odd thing I think a little was Carly, because yes she is the main focus of the book, but she’s dead, and we still by far get to know the most about her. I feel like I know Carly’s character and her personality like the back of my hand, and whereas we get to know Neily and Audrey as well I don’t think we do nearly as much. Which is odd considering they’re the ones the story is being told through.Over all the story was great, a strong plot with strong believable characters, although with a slightly slow and dragged out beginning. If you get bored, or you get deterred within the first section for ‘Neily’ – press on, it’s worth it! (Not to mention, Murder Mystery in YA?! MORE PLEASE!)
    • 4/5
      This book had me worried at first. The narration alternates between Neily and Audrey with the first section being from Neily's point of view. I found Neily to be a really irritating character and I sometimes find it hard to get into a book with a main character I dislike. Thankfully once we see more of Audrey I got drawn into the story. The other slight concern was a great deal of the book is made up of flashbacks so you really have to pay attention to when events really took place. Still this book handled it nicely and it gradually reveals more and more about each character. Carly's character really grabbed me as we see how she progressed from basically a braniac, good girl to ending up with the fast, drug dealing crowd. Audrey was probably my favorite character in the story. She was not what I was expecting and she was probably the most likeable in my opinion.The mystery of who killed Carly was nicely paced and it's not until probably a little more than half way through the book do you get an inkling of who the murderer is. For the most part this story moves along nicely and was enjoyable. The main reason it did not get a higher rating from me is the fact that it took awhile to get into and while the story is enjoyable it is probably not a book I would read again and again.
    • 2/5
      Neily was Carly’s ex-boyfriend. Audrey was Carly’s cousin and ex-best friend. Right before Carly was found murdered, she called Neily’s cell phone, and, when he didn’t pick up, left a cryptic message. Audrey’s father was found guilty of the murder, but now, a year after Carly’s death, Audrey is fairly certain that her father didn’t do it, and that the real killer is still out there. Audrey and Neily team up to discover Carly’s tangled secrets and implicate the real murderer.I have to admit, I did not take to this book. Excellent writing clashes with unsympathetic characters and a snail-like plot to make ALL UNQUIET THINGS a difficult read for me.There is no question that Jarzab’s writing is great. Like Curtis Sittenfeld, Jarzab meticulously analyzes nearly every facet of Neily, Audrey, and Carly, making them feel as if they could be your flawed classmates. However, also like Sittenfeld’s characters in Prep, Neily, Audrey, and Carly simply aren’t very likable, sympathetic, or appealing. We know their history and their thought processes as if they were our therapy patients—an overly intimate and annoying form of relationship that I, as a reader, found disturbing and unenjoyable.I don’t really mind psychoanalysis—at least not when the person has some ultimately redeemable qualities. However, the three main characters in ALL UNQUIET THINGS are just so unlikable. Neily spends most of his time sulking and remembering the past, his relationship with Carly, while Audrey bullies Neily into helping her uncover the mystery behind the identity of Carly’s murderer.I also found an unsettling disjuncture between how Audrey and Neily are in the present time, and who they were in their flashbacks. I think this is a result of all the telling-not-showing that went on in the narration. I don’t want Neily to tell us that he hates Carly’s new friends, then be shown a passing moment in which they snap off, like, two biting remarks to one another; I’d rather see the tension between the characters, the strain of the past versus the present, of what they think of one another versus who they truly are. As a result, I couldn’t connect to the main characters as real people, so much like untouchable character sketches they were.I mentioned earlier that Anna Jarzab is a great writer, and I’m not contradicting myself by saying so: if you enjoy ultra-complete character analyses, you’ll find this a great book, a wonderful achievement by a debut author. However, I felt that her writing skills were unfortunately used in the wrong way—too much in the telling and flashbacks, and not enough in the playing out of a genuinely interesting story arc—which led to my lack of connection with the book.
    • 4/5
      ALL UNQUIET THINGS was a very enjoyable read. The story is about the aftermath of the murder of a girl named Carly, told in the alternating viewpoints of her ex-boyfriend, Neily, and cousin, Audrey. It's a story about the dark side of life in a place where kids are filthy rich and have easy access to drugs, booze, and unlimited freedom. At the beginning of the story, Carly's supposed murderer has been caught and put in jail, but Audrey and Neily have suspicions that the wrong person was put behind bars, and that the true murderer is still free. They struggle to put together clues and suspects to get down to the truth... One of the main reasons I loved the book was because Jarzab had me guessing who the murderer was, up to the end. I seriously had no idea it was who it was. Took me completely off guard, but then when I go back and think about it, it made complete sense and had me going "ohhh" in admiration. Both Neily and Audrey are authentic narrators, and it's intriguing to see sections of the story in alternating viewpoints. Carly, although dead, also felt real, and at the end of the story, I was left feeling sad that she was dead. I loved the "feel" of the town that the story was set in, Empire Valley. I don't know if it is a real town or not, but it sure felt authentic. And it was very interesting reading about the lives of these unbelievably wealthy kids who, as I quote from the book, "had more pocket money than most Americans make in several months". Jarzab slowly reveals parts of the plot, taking us back and forth between present day (when they're trying to solve the mystery) and the past (in the time leading up to Carly's murder) bit by bit, until all the parts of the puzzle fall into place and form the smoothly built story. There's such a great cast of characters that had me constantly guessing at who the murderer was, and yet I still didn't manage to figure it out until it was revealed! Overall, it was a wonderful read with a great mystery. Also recommended for those who liked Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers.