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Don't Let Me Go (Expanded Edition)
- Narrated by: Melody Craven
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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Summary
On top of battling the normal teenage angst that everyone goes through, Joanie is also reeling from her parents' bitter divorce and having to cope with her mother's new boyfriend and father's new family. Alone in a new town and without friends, she turns to passing the time by indulging in her longtime hobby of making toy models of soldiers and is both amazed and shocked when one of them comes to life.
Despite her millions of unanswered questions and having to make sense of new mysteries every day, Joanie comes to find a loyal and trustworthy companion in Adler, a lieutenant in the Wehrmacht and a member of the German Resistance during World War II who must also find a way to handle living in modern times on top of being invisible to most of the population.The two of them will have to fight several battles on many fronts in both the physical world and unseen realms as they both try to comprehend Adler's new existence and piece Joanie's broken life back together.
This expanded edition of Don't Let Me Go features bonus material including the short story that originally inspired this novel as well as two interviews with the author.
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- Adam Walker
- 13-04-23
Interesting concept with a fine performance
For somebody who has admitted to not being particularly fond of fantasy, the concept of a doll coming to life is a rather interesting one and the execution of it delivers; more so with the performance of the narrator.
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- Casey B
- 06-09-19
A really delightfully entertaining listen!
I had good fortune of being given this audio-book by Jamila Mikhail and found myself pleasantly surprised.
A succulent 'swimming through the murky waters of being a teenager', young Joanie's inner passions conjure up her very own spirit-keeper named Adler, a German soldier whose death leaves him trapped between parallel universes, and while a source for good, there is some bad. Read the book or listen it to find out exactly what.
Crafted well, Joanie's emotions are beautifully told as they resonate off the page by a gifted and sweet-voiced, Melody Craven. I liked the way Adler and Joanie's relationship is so charming and at times biting yet they held each other emotionally strong. They could keep one another up and sometimes pull one another down especially where events were difficult to control, and there are many of those too, where teenage anxiety about school, homelife, and pals, rear their challenging heads.
No doubt family and friends show 'concerns' over Joanie's 'keeper' which are cleverly intertwined in the story (particularly Rose's) and I could envision the audio-telling clearly. The ending's a cracker!
So yes, as someone who enjoys a more hard-hitting-story for my reads, this one left me delightfully embellished, oh, and the extended-version has a bonus, alternative-short, at the end. Good stuff indeed from such a young writer!
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- Dwayne
- 07-05-23
Best of the two
His is the best version of the two even if both were a joy to listen to. I’m glad I got to listen to it twice even if I enjoyed this version better. Thank you for the codes and I look forward to another book!
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