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Children of the Different
- Narrated by: Stephen Briggs
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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Summary
Nineteen years ago, a brain disease known as the Great Madness killed most of the world's population. The survivors all had something different about their minds. Now, at the start of adolescence, their children enter a trance-like state known as the Changeland and emerge either with special mental powers or as cannibalistic Ferals.
In the great forest of South West Australia, 13-year-old Arika and her twin brother Narrah go through the Changeland. They encounter an enemy known as the Anteater who feeds on human life. He exists both in the Changeland and in the outside world, and he wants the twins dead.
After their Changings, the twins have powers that let them fight their enemy and face their destiny on a long journey to an abandoned American military base on the northwest coast of Australia...if they can reach it before time runs out.
Children of the Different is a post-apocalyptic fantasy novel set among the varied landscapes and wildlife of Western Australia.
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- Diane Severson
- 10-05-18
Psi-powers and mass viral infections
This is a really interesting concept and a very good first novel.
First off: I received this audio book in exchange for an honest review. Life got in the way and I am just now (2 years after the fact) holding up my end of the bargain.
I found the setting really refreshing. Not many of the books I’ve read, especially Speculative fiction have been set in Australia. Plus the narrator is Australian, which was perfect, of course.
I loved the dreamscape of the Changeland, where anything could happen and things do change weirdly and seemingly at random, although none of it is, in fact, random.
Because the 2 main characters are a set Of psychically linked twins, and they are basically on alternate quests to save one another, there’s quite a lot of repetition from both perspectives. The second time through the events could’ve been executed better with more brevity, but the story didn’t suffer.
The narrator was quite good, changing his voice subtly to give the characters more identity, but it wasn’t over-done, which I appreciate. Only Zara’s cadence was a bit hard to take after a while. By the end the narration suffered only slightly by a lack of variety in the cadence. All the lines had the same melody, if you will. But I’m not sure it was entirely his fault. I noticed that most of the sentences were very short and with little variation in the sentence structure, it would be difficult to create variety in the cadence of your voice.
That said, it didn’t bother me that much, I just noticed it.
Over all, I feel this was a very strong debut novel with an interesting and refreshing story. I’m looking forward to what Flynn comes up with next.
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