God’s Junk Drawer
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4.0 • 13 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
From New York Times bestselling author Peter Clines, God’s Junk Drawer is a mind-bending tale of mystery and adventure set at the dawn of time.
Welcome to the valley …
Forty years ago, the Gather family—James, his daughter Beau, and his son Billy—vanished during a whitewater rafting trip and were presumed dead.
Five years later, Billy reappeared on the far side of the world, telling an impossible tale of a primordial valley populated by dinosaurs, aliens, Neanderthals, and androids. Little Billy became the punchline of so very many jokes, until he finally faded from the public eye.
Now, a group of graduate astronomy students follow their professor, Noah Barnes, up a mountain for what they believe is a simple stargazing trip. But they’re about to travel a lot farther than they planned …
Noah—the now grown Billy Gather—has finally figured out how to get back to the valley. Accidentally bringing his students along with him, he’s confident he can get everyone back home, safe and sound.
But the valley is a puzzle—one it turns out Noah hasn’t figured out—and they’ll need to solve it together if there’s any chance of making it out alive.
Pulling from Earth’s past, future, and beyond, Peter Clines has created a complex, dangerous world, navigated by a dynamic ensemble cast, and a story that is as thrilling as it is funny and heartfelt.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Clines (The Broken Room) crams unpredictable action and an inventive mix of fantasy and sci-fi elements into this surprisingly tender story of a brother's love for his sister. As a child Billy Gather disappeared along with his father and sister for five years. When Billy was found without the rest of his family, he described where he'd been as a valley full of dinosaurs (including a T. rex that killed his father), robots, Neanderthals, and a six-dimensional alien, a story that psychological experts wrote off as an elaborate coping mechanism spurred by trauma. But Billy, now an astronomy professor going by Noah Barnes, has spent his life figuring out how to return through a stable wormhole to save his sister, who he believes is still trapped in the valley. When he finally succeeds, however, a group of his grad students are sucked through with him, including no-nonsense Parker, strapping Logan and his discontented girlfriend, Olivia, and indoorsy Sam. Worse, the valley is not how Noah remembers it. When the explorers come across a fortified human village, the residents claim that Noah has arrived 400 years after when he left and his sister is long dead. Meanwhile, these humans are barely surviving, forced to pay tribute to the self-appointed "Empress." Clines maintains a light tone and brisk pace through all the zany chaos and smuggles in some real heart. It's a twisty and satisfying epic.
Customer Reviews
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Well done as most of his books are. Interesting premises and mostly a page turner. You’ll develop care for the characters. The ending…I complain but not explain. Ruin the satisfaction, I won’t.
BUT - I would have liked to hear more about what he did for her and where/when she went. Thus four stars.
Nope
Tooooo long. And all over the place. Liked the original idea and then it just gets long winded and twisty. I was bummed. I enjoy most of his other stuff. Some not so much. This will go in that bucket. I really didn’t like it