Unraveller
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Unraveller
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Narrated by:
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Eleanor Bennett
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By:
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Frances Hardinge
About this listen
For fans of Leigh Bardugo and Neil Gaiman comes Frances Hardinge’s spectacular gothic novel Unraveller.
Welcome to your new fantasy obsession . . .
In a world where anyone can create life-destroying curses, only one person has the power to unravel them.
Kellen does not fully understand his talent, but uses it to help those who have been cursed, including his ally and closest friend, Nettle. But Kellen himself is cursed, and unless he and Nettle can release him, he is in danger of unravelling everything - and everyone - around him.
From Costa Award-winning author of The Lie Tree, Hardinge expertly weaves together mythology and mystery in a richly-detailed world besieged by curses.
‘Exquisite . . . sheer perfection’– Liz Hyder, author of The Gifts
‘Instantly engrossing, effortlessly clever, and completely magical’ – Freya Marske, author of A Marvellous Light
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Critic reviews
Beautiful narration, creative, original story about friendship and the complexity of hate and anger.
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Excellent Recording of an interesting book.
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Great world building, well written characters and interesting story. Here the book really takes off in the second half as the world turns out to be much more complex and unpredictable at that point. The story is gripping and often evolves in surprising directions.
My favourite books of hers are still The lie tree and The face of glass, but I think any Hardinge's book is worth reading.
Hardinge is a master of writing complex and well rounded female characters, something many male writers of similar books can't do to save their lives.
not just for young people
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Love the story, narrator takes a bit of getting used to
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Really enjoyed this book
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Melodic prose and beautifully written
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The plot, world and characters were so immersive and well-constructed that I felt like I was living the story in among with them and was physically unable to stop reading until I turned the last page.
This is a world where magic spiders can ‘gift’ a curse egg to those who are angry which, when fed with their hatred and misery, grows until the curse flies free with some hauntingly horrifying consequences. Images of people cursed into boats, clouds, birds and monsters are going to stay with me for a looooong, long time, so don’t say I have warned you… this is a darkly mesmerising fairy tale!
Narrator Eleanor Bennett captures the voices well, particularly the undercurrents of bitterness, resentment, tolerant humour and so on, that the reader picks up between the lines of the text.
Part mystery, part horror, part fantasy, this author’s books are officially classed as Young Adult fiction but as an adult reader (fat TOO adult these days, in my opinion!) I utterly adore them. I love all of the characters – main and side; good, bad and grey – and simply didn’t want the book to ever end.
I’ve already bought this in hardback format for my ‘keep’ shelf, where it will sit proudly with Deeplight, displaying their beautiful covers, while their mesmerising contents will sit permanently in my imagination.
A darkly mesmerising fairytale
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Highly recommended
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Dark Fairytale at it's best
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