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The Sea of Tranquility
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne, Candace Thaxton
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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Summary
I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk.
Former piano prodigy Nastya Kashnikov wants two things: to get through high school without anyone learning about her past and to make the boy who took everything from her - her identity, her spirit, her will to live - pay.
Josh Bennett’s story is no secret: every person he loves has been taken from his life until, at seventeen years old, there is no one left. Now all he wants is be left alone and people allow it because when your name is synonymous with death, everyone tends to give you your space.
Everyone except Nastya, the mysterious new girl at school who starts showing up and won’t go away until she’s insinuated herself into every aspect of his life. But the more he gets to know her, the more of an enigma she becomes. As their relationship intensifies and the unanswered questions begin to pile up, he starts to wonder if he will ever learn the secrets she’s been hiding - or if he even wants to.
The Sea of Tranquility is a rich, intense, and brilliantly imagined story about a lonely boy, an emotionally fragile girl, and the miracle of second chances.
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- Reuven Nisser
- 11-09-13
One Of The Best
It is not often that you see a novel which is realistic in every way. It is sad to think that such things can happen. I loved them. Yes, I felt that I got to know them. I can understand their motivations. I can relate to them. In some parts of the book, I laughed outloud. Other times, I cryed. I can not recommend it strongly enough.
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- Annette
- 08-07-13
Fantastic Debut
Would you listen to The Sea of Tranquility again? Why?
I was hooked by the unique ‘voice’ of this novel from the very first line, the prose are captivating. The point of view switched between Nastya and Josh, but in both cases the sense of these characters was immediate and honest. I guess this narration was ‘The Death of Bees’ (random blurted thought) meets ‘Pushing the Limits’.
I would have liked more insight into Josh’s head in the second half of the novel and some of Nastya’s decisions seem to come from a far more self-destructive place than you anticipate, but the storytelling was fairly balanced otherwise. I enjoyed the slow growth of their friendship, the way they gradually slipped passed one another’s guard. The secondary characters like Drew and Tierney were well drawn, interesting and entertaining – they were pretty perfect and didn’t feel extraneous.
If you like smart observant characters, romance, heartache and stories to get lost in then this is a good bet. It’s not fantasy, or science fiction, or a Mills and Boon romance, but it will wreck you, steal your breath and your affections, your heart even. It will impress you.
This is a book that was worthy of a recommendation by Colleen Hoover.
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- summer
- 12-11-15
I absolutely love this book!!
read this book 3 times and it still doesn't fail to give me goosebumps and bring a tear to my eye. it's so well written and you just don't expect what happens..
defo one of my faves!!
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- Alison Egan
- 19-04-18
Exquisite
The characters, the story, the dialogue were all perfect. The narration was fantastic, especially from the female narrator. The male narrator was pretty good too, but felt a bit off in parts. After I fished the book I sat and thought for severally minutes, awed. Couldn't recommend it enough
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- E H Leather
- 25-06-19
Couldn't finish.
The characters seemed overly 'teenage' but portrayed in an awkward way, there was too much repetition I felt like the author had laboured a point but then laboured it again just for the sake of it rather than moving the story forward. That coupled with the narrators tone, both sounding unnatural it was altogether too painful to continue.
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