The Escape Artist

By: Kitty Thomas

Narrated by: Tor Thom, Charley Ongel

Claire was held captive for 43 days by a man who did unspeakable things to her.

Three years after her escape, she gets her revenge. The only problem is, she's got the wrong man.

God help her if he escapes.

©2020 Kitty Thomas (P)2024 Kitty Thomas

So captivating!!

I read this book when it first came out. I always prefer audiobook format since I love to multitask so I was so happy when I heard this was being released as an audiobook!!

I loved the narrators! They only enhanced this story for me! I loved Tor Thom’s deep voice narrating Ari’s POV and Charley Ongel was perfect as Claire’s POV!!

Claire is quite the dynamic character! She starts timid, scarred by the horrors she endured in captivity. After spotting a man who she believes was her captor, she quickly shifts to cold and calculating, filled with rage and hell bent on getting revenge on the monster who held her captive. As the story progresses, she rediscovers her confidence and sense of self and has lots of hot and steamy moments along the way.

I’m pretty sure I say this about every one of Kitty’s male leads, but Ari is just molten sex appeal. I’d 100% recommend this book for him alone!

Claire and Ari

This book was awesome! I loved Claire and Ari. Claire had so much guilt and anger bottled inside her i'm actually surprised she managed to kidnap Ari and do the things she did to him. When things turned around I didn't know how it was going to go down. I liked that we got to see Kane and Saskia that was a lot of fun. I really liked the chemistry and dynamic between Ari and Claire despite how their relationship started. The ending was a total shock! I did not see that twist coming! I love when I can't predict the ending it's so much fun! I really liked that this book felt like it had a complete ending even though most of Kitty's books tend to end on kind of a cliffhanger, I'm glad that didn't happen in this book Claire deserved to have a nice ending. A wonderful story.

Narration
I loved the narrators in this book! They were so good. I really like this kind of dual narration because it's really hard to find. Instead of having the female narrate a whole chapter from the woman's point of view and the male narrator reading the whole chapter from the man's point of view they each do all of the lines for each the female and male lead and it goes back and forth throughout the chapter. Makes it feel like the narrators are the characters instead of just reading a book I really enjoy this style of dual narration. A great book!

Electric from start to finish!

Want to know what happens when the captor becomes captivated by her captive?

Claire has been through a lot and finally she is this close to getting her vengeance. Lines become blurred when she starts to feel things for a man she believes was her aggressor. She soon finds out that all along she has had it all wrong.

Ari does not know why this is happening to him. He is determined to find out why this woman decided to do what she has did to him. He is starting to see Claire's vulnerabilities and wants to give her what he knows she needs.

Their story is dark, tragic, electric, and holds so much passion. I enjoyed the narrators for this one, they did a great job bringing Ari and Claire to life. Definitely a must listen!

5 stars for this audio!!!

I LOVED THIS AUDIO! This is one of my favorite books by Kitty Thomas and being able to listen to it was even better than reading it the first time. the narrator's did an excellent job portraying Claire and Ari and I can only WISH we can an audio next for Kane and Saskia!!! Tor and Charley would be perfect for this one as well. 5 stars as always!!!

Another 5 star story!!

Listening to this audiobook, was the second time I’ve revisited this story. Three years ago, Clair was kept hostage for 43 long days and tortured to the point where now that she escaped, she’s still unable to lead a normal or productive life. She’s always watching her back, just waiting to be taken again. Then she spots her tormentor and is torn up that he’s just living a normal life, doing normal things, like he’s a normal person. This angers her so much that her only choice is to seek revenge. She’s going to capture and torture him, just like he did to her, except, his death is going to conclude his captivity. It’s a fail proof plan, except that she captures the wrong man!! The majority of the story is about what happens after she realizes she’s caught and tortured an innocent and very attractive man, who’s hell bent on getting his revenge on her. Kitty’s writing is really above average, her mind is out of this world and her writing god(s) are unmatched and always help her produce stellar stories such as this one. Ive read all of her stories at least once, and am working my way to reading each once at least twice.
The narrators, Tor Thom and Charley Ongel did a great job capturing the voice of Clair and Ari. This was my first experience with the duet type of narration, where the woman narrator read all the female lines of speech and thought, and the male narrator read all the male lines and thought. It was much less confusing that other narrations of stories, where one narrator is portraying the parts of both the male and female characters. I’d definitely listen to other stories narrated by the pair.