THE LATINIST

Listeners often find that an audiobook performance enhances and sometimes redefines the written narrative, and this example is an interesting case in point. The author is male, the narrator female. The point of view is third-person omniscient, but our sympathies are solidly with the novel's beleaguered heroine. Mark Prins's story of a senior professor stifling the career of his female subordinate is a romance/suspense/academic novel of a most unusual sort, one that will at times astonish listeners and keep them guessing to the end. Its energetic narrator Sasha Higgins is a fresh voice, and she does a masterful job here, breathing character, tension, and intrigue into this audacious first novel. D.A.W. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2022]