Booklog 53/2023: Jodi Taylor: White Silence – Elizabeth Cage #1 (Audiobook)

[jacey]

This is a re-read, or rather a re-listen. It’s the first Elizabeth Cage book, and most unusually for a Jodie Taylor audiobook, this time not read by Zara Ramm, but by Katie Scarf. She makes a good job of the reading. Elizabeth Cage can see colours surrounding people – their auras, though she doesn’t use that term. She can tell their moods and their state of being, whether they are happy or unhappy, troubled or serene, good or evil. When her husband Ted dies she is tricked by Sorensen, his boss into staying over at the Sorensen private clinic and is kept there under threat of being sectioned. Sorensen, it turns out, has been curious about Elizabeth’s abilities and has been watching her for years. Now he has the opportunity of finding out what she can do. Enter Michael Jones, another inmate at the clinic – or is he? Well, yes he is, but he’s more than that. No spoilers. Elizabeth begins to trust him, but should she? The ending is not quite cliffhanger but it’s definitely open to a follow-up.