Love Bomb

by Lisa Zeidner Narrated by Kate Rudd

Overview

In quaint Haddonfield, New Jersey, Tess is about to marry Gabe in her childhood home. Her mother, Helen, is in a panic about the guests, who include warring exes, crying babies, jealous girlfriends, and too many psychiatrists. But the most difficult guest was never on the list at all: a woman in a wedding dress and a gas mask, armed with a rifle, a bomb trigger strapped to her arm.

Lisa Zeidner's audacious novel Love Bomb begins as a hostage drama and blossoms into a far-reaching tale about the infinite varieties of passion and heartbreak.

Who has offended this nutcase, and how? Does she seek revenge against the twice-divorced philanderer? Or is her agenda political-against the army general? Or the polygamous Muslim from Mali? While the warm, wise Helen attempts to bond with the masked woman and control the hysteria, the hostages begin to untangle what connects them to one another, and to their captor. But not until the SWAT team arrives does “the terrorist of love” unveil her real motives....

Critics have praised Lisa Zeidner's prose for its “unforced edginess and power”; her fiction “shines with humor, wisdom, and poignancy.” In her most masterful novel yet, Zeidner gives us a tough yet tender social comedy, a romance with guts, a serious frolic written out of deep affection for all that it skewers.

Editorial Reviews

JANUARY 2013 - AudioFile

All hell breaks loose when an uninvited guest shows up at a wedding sporting a weird wedding dress, white combat boots, an ammo belt, a rifle, a bomb trigger, and a gas mask. The guests, many of whom are psychiatrists, are required to offer up an apology to prevent disaster without knowing if they are the target or to whom they are apologizing. Kate Rudd performs each principal, employing appropriate accents and voices. Rudd keeps listeners engaged as she portrays with wry humor the psychiatrists’ efforts to analyze the intruder. She also moves effortlessly through the more somber moments when the stories of the guests, and ultimately that of the intruder, are revealed. This clever and well-presented audiobook is both poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. A.C.P. © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine

JANUARY 2013 - AudioFile

All hell breaks loose when an uninvited guest shows up at a wedding sporting a weird wedding dress, white combat boots, an ammo belt, a rifle, a bomb trigger, and a gas mask. The guests, many of whom are psychiatrists, are required to offer up an apology to prevent disaster without knowing if they are the target or to whom they are apologizing. Kate Rudd performs each principal, employing appropriate accents and voices. Rudd keeps listeners engaged as she portrays with wry humor the psychiatrists’ efforts to analyze the intruder. She also moves effortlessly through the more somber moments when the stories of the guests, and ultimately that of the intruder, are revealed. This clever and well-presented audiobook is both poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. A.C.P. © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169527568
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	09/04/2012
Edition description:	Unabridged

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