We've had the opportunity to listen
to the fast-paced, pretty exciting story of a brother and sister who get caught
up in one of those towns that gets locked down by the military because
something secret and spooky is going on.
Think Stranger Things meets
that Stephen King show about the domed town.
The stakes keep increasing at just about the right pace as the story moves on. If you're fan of the genre, this is one you'll probably want to give a go.
If you've got a holiday drive coming up in the next couple months, this would make a pretty good companion as the story is active, the pace is quick, and the bad guys are really bad.
As this is part of a blog tour for the book, check out what Karen said yesterday here.
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Audible,
the world’s leading provider of spoken-word entertainment, has secured
worldwide English language audio rights to Tom Bale’s audio-exclusive
new title The Stone Song, narrated by Raza
Jaffrey (Homeland, Code Black).
Audible
will produce and record The Stone Song in its Grammy
and Audie award-winning London studios. It will be released exclusively in
audio on 7 November 2019. It is now available to pre-order on
Audible here.
The Stone Song is a
dystopian sci-fi thriller set in a small Sussex village, by best-selling author
Tom Bale (See How They Run, All Fall Down, One Dark Night). With four
teenagers pitted against deadly opposition, this is a story of supernatural
menace that will appeal to fans of Stephen King and Stranger Things.
On a
sweltering summer’s night, teenage siblings Jack and Lily witness a helicopter
crash on the main road between Brighton and London. The next morning they wake
to find their village has been sealed off from the entire world. A terrorist
cell is holed up in Stenhurst – or at least that’s the official story, put out
by sinister government agent Wynter and his vicious sidekick, Major Kellett.
But later
that day, Lily and Jack stumble on the truth: the authorities are hunting for a
mysterious creature, labelled CatX, who escaped during the crash. Together with
their friends, Erin and Oliver, Lily and Jack take it upon themselves to defy
the lockdown and protect the creature, no matter what the risks.
The
stakes are raised still further when a team of American agents arrive with
their own unique technologies. Nobody who sees the CatX must be allowed to
survive, and yet it soon becomes clear that there is a much bigger secret
here...one that threatens the entire world.
The Stone Song features
an exclusive interview with narrator Raza Jaffrey at the end of the audiobook,
in which he talks about the narration experience, his career as an actor and
the things (and people) he loves to listen to.
The Stone Song joins a
host of best-in-class sci-fi Audible Originals released in recent months.
Highlights include The X-Files starring
Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, H.G. Wells:
The Science Fiction Collection starring David
Tennant and Hugh Bonneville amongst others, and Jeff
Wayne's The War of The Worlds: The Musical Drama, starring
Michael Sheen, Taron Egerton and Theo James.
1 comment:
I loved Stranger Things. This sounds like a winner.
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