The Book of Accidents: A Novel (Unabridged) The Book of Accidents: A Novel (Unabridged)

The Book of Accidents: A Novel (Unabridged‪)‬

    • 3.6 • 41 Ratings
    • $14.99

Publisher Description

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A family returns to their hometown—and to the dark past that haunts them still—in this masterpiece of literary horror by the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers

LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • “The dread, the scope, the pacing, the turns—I haven’t felt all this so intensely since The Shining.”—Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Public Library, Library Journal

Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his family what happened there.

Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn’t have—and is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures.

Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of their hometown in rural Pennsylvania.

Now, Nate and Maddie Graves are married, and they have moved back to their hometown with their son, Oliver.
 
And now what happened long ago is happening again . . . and it is happening to Oliver. He meets a strange boy who becomes his best friend, a boy with secrets of his own and a taste for dark magic.

This dark magic puts them at the heart of a battle of good versus evil and a fight for the soul of the family—and perhaps for all of the world. But the Graves family has a secret weapon in this battle: their love for one another.

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
NARRATOR
XS
Xe Sands
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
16:49
hr min
RELEASED
2021
July 20
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
536.1
MB

Customer Reviews

Soycitygamer ,

If you like King, you will like this book.

This book has a bit of a slow start and I wasn’t sure where it was headed, but when it picked up, it was very reminiscent of a good Stephen King novel and I couldn’t stop. It went from “quasi paranormal” to “a whole new world”…or maybe many of them.

As for the narrators, I know some felt the dual narration was distracting. This didn’t bother me once I understood the pattern and story telling style. I did feel the male narrator sounded dismissive and flippant in his reading style. The female narrator sounded very affected with a little false gravel. But overall, the story itself was good…. so just get used to it.

I really enjoyed this and loved the way it all came together in the end. Highly recommend!

shalemaa ,

Idk

Soo I didn’t finish the book, I’m about half way through. This book literally scared me to the point of nope.

galloway35 ,

Nope

This was the 62nd novel I have finished this year. This was the worst of those 62. I really enjoyed Wanderers and Wayward but this was an idea that should have been discarded. Pass on it.

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