Borderline, Mishell Baker
Borderline, Mishell Baker
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Borderline

Author: Mishell Baker

Narrator: Arden Hammersmith

Unabridged: 11 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/21/2016


Synopsis

A cynical, disabled film director with borderline personality disorder gets recruited to join a secret organization that oversees relations between Hollywood and Fairyland in this Nebula Award–nominated and Tiptree Award Honor Book that’s the first novel in a new urban fantasy series from debut author Mishell Baker.

A year ago, Millie lost her legs and her filmmaking career in a failed suicide attempt. Just when she’s sure the credits have rolled on her life story, she gets a second chance with the Arcadia Project: a secret organization that polices the traffic to and from a parallel reality filled with creatures straight out of myth and fairy tales.

For her first assignment, Millie is tasked with tracking down a missing movie star who also happens to be a nobleman of the Seelie Court. To find him, she’ll have to smooth-talk Hollywood power players and uncover the surreal and sometimes terrifying truth behind the glamour of Tinseltown. But stronger forces than just her inner demons are sabotaging her progress, and if she fails to unravel the conspiracy behind the noble’s disappearance, not only will she be out on the streets, but the shattering of a centuries-old peace could spark an all-out war between worlds.

No pressure.

About Mishell Baker

Mishell Baker is the author of the Nebula and World Fantasy Award Finalist Borderline, which was also a Tiptree Honor book, as well as the second and third books in The Arcadia Project, Phantom Pains and Impostor Syndrome. She is a 2009 graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, and her short stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Redstone Science Fiction, and Electric Velocipede. She has a website at MishellBaker.com and frequently Tweets about writing, parenthood, mental health, and assorted geekery at @MishellBaker. When she’s not attending conventions or going on wild research adventures, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 26, 2017

This was an unexpectedly good Urban Fantasy novel with Fae and a differently-damaged protagonist that sets it apart from most by dealing with mental illness. What? Mental illness? What kind? BORDERLINE Personality Disorder. :) Just think unstable and you've pretty much got it. It makes for hell on al......more

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘ on May 10, 2021

The rating? We start at 5 stars: +1 star: I totally love the setting with all the Echo thing and norium and turning into wizards and... Lovely! +1 star: A tortured heroine (Ironbones!) going through the phase of learning to live in the aftermath of her suicide attempt, while struggling with bipolar di......more

Goodreads review by Philip on February 08, 2017

4.5ish stars. This is a 400-page book that feels short. I honestly could have read 100 more pages and not complained. I was that into this. The setting, plot, sequence of events are pretty straightforward and not particularly deep. But I couldn't put it down. The Hollywood aspect of the story is glit......more

Goodreads review by karen on January 02, 2021

fulfilling book riot's 2020 read harder challenge task #21: Read a book with a main character or protagonist with a disability (fiction or non) <--- one day too late, but who's counting? put more like this in front of me, and i could easily become an urban fantasy fan. review to come.......more

Goodreads review by Justine on March 22, 2016

Borderline is an amazing book in every way. While the story is fairly straightforward, Mishell Baker has made it something special in the telling. Borderline is fillied with deeply flawed characters, but Baker lets them be who they are without any apologies and the story is that much richer for it. H......more