The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey audiobook

The Girl with All the Gifts

By M. R. Carey
Read by Finty Williams

Hachette Book Group 9780316278157

The Testing Trilogy: Book 2

13.07 Hours • Unabridged
Format : CD (In Stock)
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  • $45.00

    ISBN: 9781478901556

Melanieis a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her “our little genius.” Everymorning, Melanie waits in her cell to be taken to class. When they come forher, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap herinto the wheelchair. She thinks they don’t like her. She jokes that she won’tbite, but they don’t laugh. Melanieloves school. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outsidethe classroom and the children’s cells. She tells her favorite teacher all thethings she’ll do when she grows up. Melanie doesn’t know why this makes MissJustineau look sad. The Girl with All the Gifts is asensational thriller, perfect for fans of Stephen King, Justin Cronin, and NeilGaiman.

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Summary

Summary

Winner of the 2015 Audie Award for Best Paranormal Narration

A BookRiot Pick of 50 of the Best Thriller Audiobooks

One of Audible’s Best Audiobooks of 2014

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award

An Audible Editors Top Pick of Road Trip Audiobooks

Shortlisted for the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award

A BookRiot Pick of the Best Abnormal Paranormal Books

A USA Today bestseller

Selected for the June 2014 Indie Next List

Melanieis a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her “our little genius.”

Everymorning, Melanie waits in her cell to be taken to class. When they come forher, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap herinto the wheelchair. She thinks they don’t like her. She jokes that she won’tbite, but they don’t laugh.

Melanieloves school. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outsidethe classroom and the children’s cells. She tells her favorite teacher all thethings she’ll do when she grows up. Melanie doesn’t know why this makes MissJustineau look sad.

The Girl with All the Gifts is asensational thriller, perfect for fans of Stephen King, Justin Cronin, and NeilGaiman.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Narrator Finty Williams wisely sidesteps the sensationalistic tone that would be easy to bring to this novel…[and] makes it clear that Melanie is a child, full of wonder and curiosity…This zombie story is about self-discovery and finding humanity in unexpected places. And Williams’ performance is pitch-perfect. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” —AudioFile
“In less capable hands, this could have been a stock story with stock types, but the people here, and their relationships, are so compelling that they elevate the story into something worth caring about.” —RT Book Reviews (4 stars)
“You’ll fall in love with the main character instantly, considering how sweet and endearing she is. You’ll almost forget the fact that she’s a bloodthirsty zombie. Carey really explores notions of humanity in this post-apocalyptic adventure, never leaving you with a clear answer on who really is human—the monster, or us?” —BookRiot
“One of the more imaginative and ingenious additions to the dystopian canon.” —KIrkus Reviews
“Like Max Brooks did with World War Z, Carey turns the zombie genre on its head. While the setting is a stark dystopian future teeming with undead, this moving story’s real focus is the relationships and growth of the characters, not who or what they are.” —Library Journal
“Comics writer Carey delivers an entertaining take on several well-worn zombie tropes…[Carey] builds well-constructed characters—particularly Melanie, one of the zombified children, who comes across as cognitively and emotionally different from the other characters, without feeling like an offensive parody of a person with Asperger’s.” —Publishers Weekly
“A great read that takes hold of you and doesn’t let go.” —John Ajvide Lindqvist, author of Let the Right One In
“The story of Melanie and the people around her is so thoughtfully crafted, so heartfelt, remorseless, and painfully human that it takes the potentially tired trope of the zombie apocalypse and makes it as fresh as it is terrifying. The story spirals towards a conclusion so surprising, so warm, and yet so chilling that it takes a moment to realize it’s been earned since the first page, and even before. It left me sighing with envious joy, like I’d been simultaneously offered flowers and beaten at chess. A jewel.” —Joss Whedon, American screenwriter, film and television director and producer

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Author

Author Bio: M. R. Carey

Author Bio: M. R. Carey

M. R. Carey has been making up stories for most of his life. His novel The Girl with All the Gifts was a USA Today bestseller and is a major motion picture based on his BAFTA-nominated screenplay. Under the name Mike Carey he has written for both DC and Marvel, including critically acclaimed runs on X-Men and Fantastic Four, Marvel’s flagship superhero titles. His creator-owned books regularly appear in the New York Times bestseller list. He also has several previous novels, two radio plays, and a number of TV and movie screenplays to his credit.

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Available Formats : CD
Category: Fiction
Runtime: 13.07
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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