A Density of Souls

By: Christopher Rice

Narrated by: James Daniels

Four high-school students in present-day New Orleans are torn apart by envy, passion, and tragedy.

Meredith, Brandon, Greg, and Stephen quickly discover the fragile boundaries between friendship and betrayal as they enter high school and form new alliances. Brandon and Greg gain popularity as football jocks, and Meredith joins the bulimic in-crowd, while Stephen becomes the target of homophobia in a school that viciously mocks him. Then, two violent deaths disrupt the core of what they once shared.

Five years later, the friends are drawn back together as new facts about their mutual history are revealed, and what was held to be a tragic accident is discovered to be murder. As the true story emerges, other secrets begin to unravel and the casual cruelties of high school develop into acts of violence that threaten an entire city.

A Density of Souls is a stunning debut novel that lays bare the darker side of the teenage experience in modern-day America.

©2000 Christopher Rice (P)2004 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

one of my all-time faves

the reader brought this favorite title to life for me yet again just as I remembered

Everyone has their ghosts.

A thoroughly gripping coming of age story, brilliantly laid out across a haunted New Orleans.

Gut wrenching, erotic, soft, terrifying and tragic, sometimes all at once.

good coming of age story

wordy. descriptive but overdone without clear purpose other than to be clever with words . but overall, well done. a worthwhile listen

Strange and Disturbing

This book is strange, violent, and quite disturbing, with so many different characters it was difficult to keep track of them all. I listened through to the end but, after a point, I was very ready for it to be over! Narrator’s performance ranges from okay to mildly annoying.

Good.

Overall, just as good as in authored book form. Wonderful, really. Fluid narration at 1.25x speed.