Bridge to Bat City, Ernest Cline
Bridge to Bat City, Ernest Cline
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Bridge to Bat City

Author: Ernest Cline

Narrator: Felicia Day

Unabridged: 5 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/09/2024


Synopsis

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ernest Cline comes a mostly true tall tale about an unexpected friendship between a young girl and a music-loving colony of bats. After losing her mother, thirteen-year-old Opal moves in with her uncle Roscoe on the family farm. There, Opal bonds with Uncle Roscoe over music and befriends a group of orphaned, music-loving bats. But just as the farm is starting to feel like home, the bats’ cave is destroyed by a big mining company with its sights set on the farmland next. If Opal and the bats can fit in anywhere, it’s the nearby city of Austin, home to their favorite music and a host of wonderfully eccentric characters. But with people afraid of the bats and determined to get rid of them, it’ll take a whole lot of courage to prove that this is where the bats—and Opal—belong. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Courtney on August 11, 2024

Dedicated to Austinites, even ‘winged ones’ lol. ‘Never yuck anyone else’s yum.’ The main character Opal is adorable. ‘Cosmic cowboys’ - wonder if that was a nod to his other sci fi books 😂 It hits all the Austin highlights. The ‘Scratchbook’ interludes are cute. The bat names being streets of Austi......more

Goodreads review by Beth on May 31, 2024

Cute, but soft-pedals too much. Full review to come. *** This is a middle grade-level book about a 13-year-old girl named Opal who loses her mother and moves with her uncle to Austin, Texas. Accompanying them to their new city are a colony of Mexican free-tailed bats who have lost their home to indust......more

Goodreads review by Nicholas on July 16, 2024

I probably would have genuinely enjoyed this if I were 30 years younger. Cline's best book since Ready Player One, for what that's worth.......more

Goodreads review by Nisha on May 07, 2024

I read this book because it takes place in Austin and I recently moved to Austin and I was looking for a feel good local story. The characters and plot were uninspired and uninteresting. It feels like Cline's books progressively get worse. I don't think I'm going to bother reading any of his future......more

Goodreads review by Joshua on May 09, 2024

Read this for the podcast 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back. There are some sweet moments to this book, but it felt like it was constantly talking down to the reader, and at about the three quarters mark it basically becomes Forest Gump except localized just to Austin with the protagonist running into......more