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    Riverland
    Riverland
    Riverland
    Audiobook9 hours

    Riverland

    Written by Fran Wilde

    Narrated by Suzy Jackson

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    About this audiobook

    When things go bad at home, sisters Eleanor and Mike hide in a secret place under Eleanor's bed, telling monster stories. Often, it seems those stories and their mother's house magic are all that keep them safe from both busybodies and their dad's temper. But when their father breaks a family heirloom, a glass witch ball, a river suddenly appears beneath the bed, and Eleanor and Mike fall into a world where dreams are born, nightmares struggle to break into the real world, and secrets have big consequences. Full of both adventure and heart, Riverland is a story about the bond between two sisters and how they must make their own magic to protect each other and save the ones they love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 9, 2019
    ISBN9781980033127
    Riverland
    Author

    Fran Wilde

    Two-time Nebula Award-winner Fran Wilde’s novels and short stories have been finalists for six Nebula Awards, a World Fantasy Award, four Hugo Awards, three Locus Awards, and a Lodestar. They include her Nebula- and Compton Crook Award-winning debut novel Updraft, and her Nebula award-winning, Best of NPR 2019, debut Middle Grade novel Riverland. Her short stories appear in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, Nature, Uncanny Magazine, and multiple years' best anthologies. Fran teaches for the Genre Fiction MFA concentration at Western Colorado University and the Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She also writes nonfiction for publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Tor.com. You can find her on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and at franwilde.net.

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    • 3/5
      Eleanor and Mike are sisters who seek each other out when the “magic” fails at home. The house is “magicked” when there is no trouble, the rules are being followed and Poppa is not angry and hitting. A mysterious river presents itself under Eleanor’s bed after an abusive episode and the girls dive in to discover a fantasy world that is in trouble and may be the source of trouble above. The girls learn that the Favre family line has long had a boundary agreement to protect the river. Now it is up to the girls to repair the agreement and stop the trouble from leaking into their world.
    • 4/5
      This is a YA / middle grade book that deals with violence in the home and uses a portal fantasy framework for the sisters to deal with what happens at home. A portal to Riverland appears under Eleanor’s bed and both girls tumble into a river basin area where so many things are made up of trash that has come through from our world. Turns out there is a compact between Riverland and sister’s family that goes back generations, but no one knows about it now. Now Eleanor must try and keep up a facade of peace at home and solve the problems of Riverland and still do well at school. This was a bit of a hard read because the anger isn’t glossed over that the girls go thought and there is no perfect solution the problems, but it certainly makes for a better book because of it.

      Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss
    • 4/5
      This is a great and difficult book. Not difficult to read. It's well written and there is magic--real Alice-down-the-rabbit-hole magic. Only it's NOT all a dream. It's difficult because the children are victims of abusive parents and it's agonizing to watch them escape from the coping mechanisms imposed on them as they face their challenges in two worlds. Interesting world-building and very suspenseful as the children examine what's real, what their resources are, and whom to trust. This is staying with me beyond finishing the book.