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    The Girls Are Gone: The True Story of Two Sisters Who Vanished, the Father Who Kept Searching, and the Adults Who Conspired to Keep the Truth Hidden
    The Girls Are Gone: The True Story of Two Sisters Who Vanished, the Father Who Kept Searching, and the Adults Who Conspired to Keep the Truth Hidden
    The Girls Are Gone: The True Story of Two Sisters Who Vanished, the Father Who Kept Searching, and the Adults Who Conspired to Keep the Truth Hidden
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    The Girls Are Gone: The True Story of Two Sisters Who Vanished, the Father Who Kept Searching, and the Adults Who Conspired to Keep the Truth Hidden

    Written by Michael Brodkorb and Allison Mann

    Narrated by Michael Brodkorb and Allison Mann

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    About this audiobook

    On the evening of April 19, 2013, Samantha and Gianna Rucki disappeared. Two of five children born to David Rucki and Sandra Grazzini-Rucki, the teenage sisters vanished in the midst of their parents' divorce.

    The girls' father, David Rucki, worked tirelessly with law enforcement to search day and night for his two missing daughters, following every lead while raising three remaining children at home. Their mother, Sandra Grazzini-Rucki, used her newfound freedom to vacation around the world, abandoning her children. And as the investigation intensified, catching the attention of the media, Sandra also disappeared.

    The Girls Are Gone is the true story of two sisters who went missing, the father who kept searching, and the adults who conspired to keep the truth hidden.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWise Ink Creative Publishing
    Release dateOct 7, 2019
    ISBN9781634892940
    The Girls Are Gone: The True Story of Two Sisters Who Vanished, the Father Who Kept Searching, and the Adults Who Conspired to Keep the Truth Hidden

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    • 3/5
      The story was good but very drawn out.. The readers made so many mistakes I am surprised that this could be published for people to listen to.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      My rating is for the readers more than the actual book. They need a lot of practice! They are a little too fast and they sound very mechanical. They have the same flatness you hear in a third grade Christmas play. Anytime you see parents watching their kid in a Christmas play in the movies you smile because you know the parents think their kid is a star despite that tone deaf presentation. Listening to that kind of reading is almost like watching a movie with a someone else providing a running commentary. You have to replay it in your head with the proper emotion attached in order to feel the story and by that time the reader has forged ahead. You end up processing two sets of information at the same time and not keeping up with either one. A really good reader is rare but they can make you forget you're even being read to, just as a really good book can make you forget you're reading. They need not be ashamed, but I'm shocked that the recording company not only didn't reject it but managed to hire two different readers with the exact same problem. So this writer"s work isn't really getting a fair presentation here and is taking an undeserved hit. I suppose for an audiobook review we're rating the entire product and might as well be honest.
    • 1/5
      These two are definitely not audiobook readers. Very boring and fast.
    • 3/5
      This book has value but the format is annoying. I can't discern the reason for the readers to flip back and forth from a man to a woman and the man reads so fast he slurs words together, even slowing the speed doesn't make it easier to understand. The last few chapters focus on their reasoning for writing and is not germane to the story. Overall, it would have benefitted from some major cutting and editing.
    • 2/5
      The reading of this book was some of the worst I have ever heard. The female reader reminded me of a high school drama student reading a part in a play. The male reader ran his words together and seemed in a rush to get through the book. The readers should stick to writing books - not reading them aloud.

      The story was a good one however, it was three times longer than it needed to be.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Way longer than it needed to be, this story was also read poorly and unedited by two narrators who could barely manage even the slightest inflection in their voices.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      The way the authors speak is so boring, I finally couldn't listen anymore.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Very captivating. The authors did an amazing job writing this story. It’s so heartbreaking what this family had to go through. If I didn’t have a Sandra in my life I don’t think I’d believe this to be true. The way these authors sacrificed and fought alongside the family for kids they didn’t know. Truly inspiring. The only downside is … the narration. It seemed very rushed at times. But you get so caught up in the story you’ll forget .

      1 person found this helpful