WOW ! like i said i wasn’t sure where it was going and it definitely surprised me, but not so much that it didn’t make sense to end that way. I really really enjoyed the journey this took me on and the few characters we met along the way. even tho there weren’t a ton of characters or crazy plot, i enjoyed it immensely! the author was really good at creating this eerie atmosphere and capturing grief and longing well.... literally my only qualm with this book is the amount of times the author uses “awakened” and i’m not sure if i only noticed that because i was listening to the audiobook or what, but it really wasn’t that big of a deal , i’d also say i got kinda sick of the narrators voice w like an hour left , but still nothing major
what a great short mystery/horror book !!!
tw animal death and skinning ... basically don’t read if u can’t stomach breaking down a deer to eat it!

Middle of the road 3 stars from me. I have read a few weird/eery/supernatural horrors and this was neither a favourite nor a least favourite. I appreciated what Peter Rock had to say about estranged family relationships, the change of memories over time, and can we trust our own accounts of things. Super eery and unsettling, this book made me feel exactly how I was hoping it would. I like the supernatural and weird elements, lots of fun. I just wish this was a full length novel of 300-350 pages so we could’ve gotten more from it. I wanted more build up and I really was hoping to see more of the father-daughter relationship and get more of an understanding of what happened when Helen was a girl.

I thoroughly enjoyed consuming this book through audio (whilst occasionally reading physically also). I think the narrator did a great job voicing Benjamin and I feel I got more out of the book through this audio. I’ve been struggling to find audiobooks that really grip me lately so I’m glad this one did!! Would absolutely be thrilled find more audiobooks narrated by Eric Jason Martin.

Fantastic concept, fun and spooky elements. Just left me wanting more. Would definitely read from Rock again!

Thank you to HighBridge Audio and NetGalley for an eALC of this horror novella :)

I think this one, while narrated beautifully, was such a strange story that I had trouble following it. I think there was a lot of potential for something great, but it just missed the mark for how confusing it was. I felt like there were things that I was missing, and I don't feel that often with books. I feel like I would want to go back and try this one in print so that I can reread and backtrack if needed to see if it made a little more sense. The prose was fine though and I would try something else from this author!

This book was just too confusing for me. I didn't really understand why characters made the choices they did and found it unrealistic at times. I'm sure listening to it on audiobook didn't help, because there were times I would have like to go back and re-read to make sure I wasn't missing something.

http://bewarethescarylibrarian.blogspot.com/2022/05/have-you-read-listened-to-this.html More of a psychedelic journey that a straight-up ghost story.

I listened to the audiobook and loved the narration. With that being said the book just didn't work for me. I found that it started out strong but it became weird as it continued.

The blurb for Passersthrough made the book sound really interesting. Sadly I never really got into the story. Hard to explain really more than it felt like the book just felt messy and you're left with questions. I just felt dissatisfied after finishing it. Was this it?

Thankfully it's a short book, otherwise, I would probably have dnf it.

I literally couldn’t put this book down from the moment I picked it up. A daughter goes missing on a camping trip with her father. And no one believes him when he says what happened when she reappears a week later. And the truth is more astonishing than I ever imagined. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

This book was cleverly told, but some of it went over my head sometimes and I'd be so confused about what was happening. I think that was the point because the supernatural experiences in this book are confusing for the characters involved, so I think it would then have to be confusing for the readers. I really didn't like the choices that some of the characters made, so that's why it doesn't have a higher rating. It was just hard for me to connect with characters who were making such dangerous decisions. Overall, I liked the premise and the plot, and I would like to explore the way the supernatural elements work in this world.

Thank you Netgalley and Highbridge Audio for this advance listener copy in exchange for my honest review.

I just didn't like this book. I found it confusing and hard to follow. There were a couple of creepy scenes, one of which made me shudder, but the plot was weird. I guess I just didn't understand what was happening. I didn't like the fact that part of it was written in fascimile. All the dates and info just got confusing. It probably would have been easier to follow in print.

The audio was good. I liked the narrator. He's a big part of why I finished. It was a quick paced story, but the characters weren't relatable and I felt nothing for any of them. There will be some people out there that enjoy this book, but I just couldn't get into it. 2.25 stars as I was able to finish and the narrator was good.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me an audio copy of this title in exchange for an honest review.

Y'all, this book is CREEPY with a capital C and I loved it. Benjamin is an older gentleman who is trying to reconnect with his daughter. Something terrible happened when she was a child and they went camping together. Helen went missing and when she was finally discovered, she couldn't remember anything about what happened while she was missing. This led to the dissolution of her parents' marriage and she didn't know if she could trust her father.

Now, many years later, the two begin to converse again. But a mysterious woman appears on Benjamin's doorstep wanting to investigate what *actually* happened all those years ago. Who is she? And who is this kid who is always hanging around her? Why does she care what happened? And most importantly... what happened to Helen while she was missing.

This is a pretty short listen; packed full of creepiness and suspense. I simultaneously wanted to slow down the title so I could just keep listening, but also speed it up so I could just KNOW what happened. The balance of ambiance and plot was perfection. I also really enjoyed the narrator-- I would pick up the audio again for sure.

My one complaint is that the ending was a bit more ambiguous than I was hoping for. I wanted a few more answers than the author was willing to share.

Atmospheric and satisfyingly creepy. Ideal for readers who aren't beholden to strict genre delineations. A recommended purchase.

At age eleven, Helen disappeared into the wilderness of Mount Rainier National Park while camping with her father, Benjamin. She was gone for almost a week before being discovered. @5 years later, Helen and her father Benjamin, finally try to piece together what really happened the day she disappeared and ruined their lives.

Needless to say, the story that was told is not what actually happened, but no one believed the 11- year-old girl's story. So after meeting an odd woman who takes way too many liberties with an old man she had just met, helps him find not just the truth of her daughter's rescue but to find where she went that day.

The story is ok. Not great, but not a waste of time per se. I felt lost a lot. Just as I would get into the story there was a sudden change or happening that had me hitting the back button, assuming my mind wandered and I missed something.
I honestly still don't know what happened as the story ended. The term Passerthrough is used a lot but I was always under the impression it was about aliens or time travelers. People who passed through our time or world briefly then moved on.

Here it is used almost like that, people who exist between two places, or two times, except they are usually dead. I think...like I said I got lost a lot in such a short story.

I did enjoy the narrator, who did a wonderful job reading this and with the voice changes.

Thanks to @netgalley, HighBridge Audio, Peter Rock and Eric Jason Martin for the opportunity to listen to this audiobook in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion.

Thank you NetGalley for a copy of Passersthrough.

While the premise was interesting to me, this book did not work at all. I struggled to power through the whole thing.

An oddly frustrating novel that explores the rekindling of connection between father and daughter after a period of separation.

When Helen was 11 she disappeared on a camping trip she took with her father, Benjamin. Decades later the daughter wants to unravel the lost pieces of her memory that week she was lost. All while possibly rebuilding the bridge between father and daughter. That was the frustrating aspect for me. I could not wrap my mind around the weirdness of the daughter and full lack of connectability.

What you'd think is an atmospheric family drama with a bit of creepy, turned into an unsettling hodgepodge of uniquely out of place characters, lack of familial warmth and very strange connections that cross the veil of life and death.

I think I'm like most readers with this one where I'm not sure exactly what I read yet Benjamin's character makes me feel like I touched on something creepily magical and hauntingly unfeigned. Rock may intentionally leave a lot of the narrative open to speculation but almost too much of it was left that way. I needed a sense of plot connection that I almost missed myself.

The audio narration was well done by Eric Marten. He has a tone that resonates with the way the atmosphere lingers. I felt like I caught things I may not have grasped with his reading style. HighBridge audio definitely has an eccentric audiobook with this novel. I'm still piecing together my feelings and it says something when a novel can leave you thinking.

Thank you HighBridge audio for the opportunity to listen to and review this novel for an honest and unbiased review. All thoughts are my own.

I thought the synopsis of this book was very intriguing but unfortunately, once I got into the book, I felt that it was very slow and boring. I still wanted to know more so I kept reading but it was just... weird? I do like weird books but I think I didn't like the way it played out here. I also think that it spent too much time dancing around the not knowing what happened in the past. I was getting impatient because I felt like, ok I get it, we don't know what happens can we explore it in the story already??

I liked the mixed media and I was afraid it wouldn't translate well via audio but I think it worked fine. It wasn't distracting at all.

The story was interesting but there was something in the delivery that didn't work for me.

While the storyline is interesting it just wasn’t quite for me. That being said I thought the use of articles and faxes as a form of narration was a wonderful choice.

the beginning was so promising and good. I was so excited and hyped. but as the story went on I wasn't really sure what was happening and got really confused. the plot was not that satisfying for me and was a bit weird. it could've ended in so many different and mesmerizing ways that I was really disappointed by what happened. I'm so sad, I deeply hate it when I dislike a book.
thanks to NetGallery for providing my copy.

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ᴀᴜᴛʜᴏʀ: Peter Rock
ᴘᴜʙʟɪᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴅᴀᴛᴇ: April 19, 2022
 
𝙼𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜 | 𝙰𝚍𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚜 | 𝚃𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚎 | 𝙵𝚊𝚜𝚝-𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚍
 
sᴜᴍᴍᴀʀʏ
Benjamin and his daughter, Helen, have been estranged ever since she went missing when they went camping. After the death of her mother, she reaches out. Now that they’ve reconnected, they’re starting to realize that there may have been more to her disappearance than they thought… 😨😱

ғᴇᴇʟɪɴɢs
I literally listened to this book twice back-to-back. The emotions of this family against the backdrop of fear that surrounds Helen’s disappearance makes for a punchy and frightful read
 
A wandering lake. Missing memories. Ghost children. This book was a wild ride that I’ll be contemplating for a long time
 
Comes out next week! Be sure to snag a copy from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local bookstore! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️
 
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This book was weird and creepy. Once I finished it I wasn't sure what I read. The overall story had an unusual flow and you were trying to figure out what happen to the daughter throughout the whole book. I had trouble trying to figure out if the random woman was alive or dead throughout the whole book and I was not sure I was 100% sure about this at the end of the book. I felt that the book just ended with nothing really resolved or talked about.