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Midnight Robber
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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Summary
It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival - until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime.
Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree. Here monstrous creatures from folklore are real, and the humans are violent outcasts in the wilds. Tan-Tan must reach into the heart of myth and become the Robber Queen herself. For only the Robber Queen's legendary powers can save her life...and set her free.
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- GIWI
- 25-12-18
Performance was fantastic!
Anansi meets Sci-fi! Very enjoyable listen. Would recommend it to any Anasi fan. Performance was fantastic!
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- Kindle Customer
- 25-03-21
Heart rending and imaginative fantasy/sci-fi
A sumptuous novel beautifully read as always by Robin Miles. Tan Tan is a gripping and sympathetic main character and I loved ChiChi Bird and the Dwen.
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- Lavinia
- 20-04-19
No Words
This. Right. Here.
So deeply beautiful, The references. The light patois. The weaving of stories you heard as a child with references to places you've stood, the air you've breathed, memories long forgotten of generations past.
I've never been in love with a book before. I've enjoyed stories, had moments of new learning and understanding from books but never love until now.
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- Rudy Lorentz
- 05-09-16
Great book and reading
This is a great book, really nice that it's partly patois. Such an enjoyable story overall (although there's a couple of horrible sexual violence bits). And the reading of it fitted perfectly.
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-12-19
YOU HAVE TO HEAR THIS!
Gorgeous writing, beautiful performance, can't-stop story. The first sci fi story I've read/heard in Jamaican Patwah, albeit an Anglo dialect easy for a any English speaker to understand without problems (and ditto for the moderately accented reading). Poetic phrasing and rhythms that give a folkloric feel to what is basically a YA coming-of-age story in a classic "colony world" setting. Threaded through with "Anansi stories" (not actually about Anansi but true to the mode). Listening on headphones during long walks I truly couldn't keep from out-loud laughs, tears and the occasional whoop of triumph (would have embarrassed myself if I hadn't been so caught up). I want to stand on the rooftops and say "get this!!"
TRIGGER WARNINGS FOLLOW
STOP NOW TO AVOID PARTIAL SPOILERS.
T/W for child abuse, rape, self-blaming. At times this was an undeniably difficult listen. It's handled extremely well but also doesn't skirt around details.
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- Oma
- 21-09-23
excellent
one of the best! reminds me of mixed family patois, voices you don't hear when you leave, and also the best emotional science fiction and hopeful imagining. class act.
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