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The Wonder State
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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The Wonder State
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Publisher's Summary
From the author of Girl One comes a spellbinding adventure about a strange power lurking in the Arkansas Ozarks, and the group of friends obsessed with finding it.
Five friends arrive back in Eternal Springs, the small town they all fled after high-school graduation. Each of them is drawn home by a cryptic, scrawled two-word letter: You promised.
It has been fifteen years since that life-changing summer, and they're anxious to find out why Brandi called them back, especially when they vowed never to return.
But Brandi is missing. She'd been acting erratically for months, in and out of rehab, railing at whoever might listen about magic all around them. About a power they can't see. And strange houses that appear only when you need them . . .
Told in two enthralling time lines, The Wonder State is a stunning, immersive follow-up to Girl One. Sara Flannery Murphy has created another dazzling, genre-blurring novel―an adventure story laced with nostalgia and magic, exploring belonging and the lasting power of community.
What the critics say
“Narrator Jesse Vilinsky adeptly manages a range of Ozarkian accents and vocally distinguishes class levels; she even ages the more mature voices in the modern timeline. Recommend to fans of speculative mysteries and coming-of-age tales, as well as to readers of Alice Hoffman and Sarah Addison Allen.”—Library Journal
"Richly imagined and vividly rendered . . . Magical, moving, and gripping, this is a special book indeed."—Kristine Huntley, Booklist (starred review)
"The latest standalone thriller from [Sara Flannery] Murphy gets its hooks into readers from the opening chapter and doesn’t let go . . . With echoes of I Know What You Did Last Summer, this gives a familiar trope new life."—Publishers Weekly
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Ashlynn
- 2023-11-09
good although it didn’t fit my original expectations
Although this was not the thriller I thought it would be, I did enjoy this story it was very captivating! I truly wish we can know more about what happened in the characters life’s those 15 years in between and the few years after though!!
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- LDanna
- 2023-07-22
Not for an adult reader.
I'm tired of books being marketed as adult fiction that are set in adolescence. When more than 90% of a novel's content takes place in childhood, as this one does, it should be categorized as YA. That way those of us looking for mature/adult content could avoid it. This story relies heavily on its readers' willing suspension of disbelief. If you are an adolescent who can wrap their head around magic houses appearing and vanishing in a small town without the townspeople knowing, and scars that spurt blood because some childhood friend 4000 miles away wills them to, it should be right up your alley. That said, the audiobook is proficiently narrated by Jesse Vilinsky.
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