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Playing Dead
- A Memoir of Terror and Survival
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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Summary
Monique, the daughter of San Diego Chargers football great Earl Faison, married her high school sweetheart soon after she discovered she was pregnant with his child. Her relationship with Chris was shaky from the start, but turned tumultuous as he became verbally and physically abusive. When she could no longer put up with the abuse, she left him with their children. That was when the stalking and genuine threats began. Nothing stopped him - not protection injunctions, police warnings, or even arrests. One fateful Monday morning, Chris kidnapped Monique in front of her children and drove off on a nightmarish car ride that involved car crashes and rape. He mercilessly beat her on the head with a shovel and abandoned her brutalized body in the woods in the rain. He left, presuming she was dead . . . but was she?
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- Fee-G ✨️ 💜
- 17-04-23
Excellent
very interesting and narrated well. eye opening and hard hitting story. Easy calming listen & well told
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- Anonymous User
- 31-05-20
excellent
I thought this was a very good read, how most times justice will prevail even if it takes years, the truth always comes out, the author is an amazing person to have gone through so much came out the other end, I would recommend
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- Bevvers
- 11-10-23
Overly long
A story of courage & survival. What Monique went through doesn't bear thinking about & she was lucky to survive.
It made me shudder a few times, the behaviour of her husband has more than a touch of sadism. I've been on the receiving end of that behaviour (NOT to this extent, thankfully!) so I can understand just how toxic these men can be.
However, I felt that the first half of the book was caught up in way more detail than was really necessary, making it overly long & a little tedious - that’s not to say that what happened to Monique was tedious, just that I don't think we needed to know the full background of her parents & childhood to understand.
I'm so glad she survived her attack & got away from this awful man.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-04-23
Good book
Good narration. It is proven once again that the law and the judicial system are too complicated and justice only comes when disaster strikes.
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- SZB
- 24-09-23
A tale of survival
This author captures her story with an air of calmness, her story is one that is repeated throughout the land and to those on the outside looking in makes them scream ‘leave him’. The story is compelling and I couldn’t stop listening. A worthy story for the price of a credit.
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- Linda T
- 22-03-23
Playing dead
Enjoyed this . Lady is ever so lucky to be alive. Well written and well narrated
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- CMS
- 04-09-23
Couldn’t finish it
It goes without saying that any right thinking person would be very pleased that somebody survived an awful event, but I simply couldn’t get that far in the story, sadly. I made it to chapter 5 then gave up because the life story was unremarkable and frankly a bit boring, and the author’s tone was weirdly self aggrandising in places.
I’m happy her outcome from whatever the traumatic event was was positive and wish her well.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-10-23
The story is so so so dull and slow
Talk about padding put a story! the title makes you believe it'll be a harrowing story of abuse. it may be.... eventually. To get there though, you have to endure the daily doldrums of a bore.
The narrator talks as if something bad is or has just happened when absolutely zero of any interest whatsoever has..
I'm persevering just because I've paid. There had better be a twist that'll take my breath away as otherwise I'm done.... so crap halfway through....
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