SEEMS PERFECT

Narrators Jennifer Jill Araya and Emily Lawrence perform this complicated thriller about dangerous room shares and hidden personalities. Broke and injured yoga instructor Emily Hawthorne is in debt and desperately in need of a roommate in expensive San Francisco. Things are frustrating enough when squatter Pip Stone tricks Emily into getting a room in her condo, but the situation becomes downright dangerous when her downstairs neighbor is found murdered. Narrators Araya and Lawrence capture the timid, confrontation-avoidant Emily and the confident, albeit broke, Pip and her precocious daughter, Sophie. While the plot itself is sometimes predictable, the performances make the characters sympathetic enough to keep the listener's attention throughout this twisted story. V.B. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2025]