Incredibly well done!

This story and narration is very unique and provides a fully immersive experience for those who are inclined to enjoy audiobooks created in this enhanced style. Immersive audiobooks which employ sound design and musical elements are growing in popularity and are effectively a movie without visuals – or a movie in your mind. I found the production quality of this audiobook to be excellent. The level of detail and variety in the audio is incredibly well done. David Allen Vargo’s voice acting, as usual, is exemplary, the music is perfect, and the ambiance and sound effects transport you directly into the magical town of Seaspray and into the mind of the protagonist, Winslow Berkel. Vargo’s many individual character voices make it very clear who is speaking and allowed me to feel like I was a fly on the wall, eavesdropping on intimate and private conversations.

I am becoming a huge fan of audiobooks that contain more sonic elements than the voice alone. The added sound effects and ambiance make me feel like I’m in the story, as opposed to just listening to it. Doubtless, a great deal of attention to detail must take place in the creative process to produce such a gripping and ethereal atmosphere.

Seaspray falls into the category of Magical Realism and while the full story is too complex to cover here, it covers themes of domestic abuse, drug addiction, death and the afterlife, incarceration, and redemption – all stunningly depicted by author Rick R. Reed. But what I liked most was that as dark as it can get in this book, the Light is everywhere – sustaining, enfolding, encouraging, nurturing, and making things right. I found the story empowering and uplifting with a beautiful HEA. Well done to both the author and the narrator.