It devours! / Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062476098
- ISBN: 0062476092
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (9 hr., 44 min., 7 sec.)) : digital.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : HarperAudio, 2017.
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Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Cecil Baldwin. |
Source of Description Note: | Hard copy version record. |
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Genre: | Fantasy fiction. Horror fiction. Paranormal fiction. Horror fiction. Fantasy fiction. Fantasy fiction. Fiction. Horror fiction. Paranormal fiction. Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
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- AudioFile Reviews : AudioFile Reviews 2017 November
For fans of the "Welcome to Night Vale" podcast, Cecil Baldwin's familiar voice immediately sets listeners in the mysterious desert town. Baldwin is in full command of the story--he knows these characters and this town, where secret police, killer librarians, and sentient patches of haze are part of everyday life. Even newcomers will find that Baldwin's conviction helps them believe in the strange world authors Fink and Cranor have created. In this second Night Vale audiobook, an otherworldly danger is threatening the close-knit town and its citizens, and scientists Carlos and Nilanjana are on the case. There are moments of humor, horror, and pathos, and Baldwin evokes them all with urgency and empathy. J.M.D. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2017 November #4
Listeners of
Copyright 2017 Publishers Weekly.Welcome to Night Vale will enjoy the familiarity of actor Baldwin, who provides the voice of the podcast, in the audio edition of Fink and Cranor's second standalone novel based on the podcast. The book opens as scientist Nilanjana Sikdar starts to investigate the source of a rumbling in the desert town of Night Vale. Nilanjana suspects that the creepy Joyous Congregation of the Smiling God has something to do with the bizarre noise even as she starts to develop an attraction to Darryl Ramirez, a member of the church. As the rumbling gets louder, buildings are destroyed and people start disappearing. Baldwin continues to be a clean, crisp narrator for the Night Vale universe, but he doesn't differentiate much between many of the main characters, who in the podcast are voiced by other actors. Furthermore, the production misses an opportunityâthe rumbling that is so central to the plot is only spoken of, rather than heard on the audio track. Nevertheless, the quirky story of Night Vale as told in Baldwin's friendly voice is enough to carry the audiobook for new listeners or fans of the podcast. A Harper Perennial hardcover. (Oct.)