LAYOVER

Narrator Robbie Daymond is well matched to 20-something Joshua Fields, who meets and shares a drink and a brief, passionate kiss with the beautiful, enigmatic Morgan on a layover in Atlanta. After they part, Joshua abandons what he feels is his vacuous life to pursue--or some might say stalk--Morgan. The listening experience becomes somewhat challenging when the point of view switches back and forth from Joshua's to that of a female police detective who is struggling between succeeding at work and co-parenting a preteen daughter. Daymond, who so convincingly voices Joshua, is less successful with the story's female characters. What starts out as a promising plot--a brief liaison on a layover--turns into a credulity-stretching listening experience. E.Q. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2019]