Never After The Thirteenth Fairy, Melissa de la Cruz
Never After The Thirteenth Fairy, Melissa de la Cruz
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Never After: The Thirteenth Fairy

Author: Melissa de la Cruz

Narrator: Imani Jade Powers

Unabridged: 7 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2020


Synopsis

"Narrator Imani Jade Powers sets a vibrant tone for this first audiobook in the middle-grade adventure series..Her clear delivery emphasizes the storytelling, which skillfully takes listeners from one suspenseful chapter to the next." -- AudioFile Magazine

Real life and fairy tales collide in Never After: The Thirteenth Fairy, book one in the new middle-grade Never After series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Descendants series, Melissa de la Cruz.

Nothing ever happens in Filomena Jefferson-Cho’s sleepy little suburban town of North Pasadena. The sun shines every day, the grass is always a perfect green, and while her progressive school swears there’s no such thing as bullying, she still feels bummed out. But one day, when Filomena is walking home on her own, something strange happens.

Filomena is being followed by Jack Stalker, one of the heroes in the Thirteenth Fairy, a series of books she loves about a brave girl and her ragtag group of friends who save their world from an evil enchantress. She must be dreaming, or still reading a book. But Jack is insistent—he’s real, the stories are real, and Filomena must come with him at once!

Soon, Filomena is thrust into the world of evil fairies and beautiful princesses, sorcerers and slayers, where an evil queen drives her ruthless armies to destroy what is left of the Fairy tribes. To save herself and the kingdom of Westphalia, Filomena must find the truth behind the fairytales and set the world back to rights before the cycle of sleep and destruction begins once more.

A Macmillan Audio production from Roaring Brook Press

About Melissa de la Cruz

Melissa de la Cruz is the #1 New York Times, #1 Publishers Weekly, and #1 IndieBound bestselling author of over 70 books for readers of all ages including Disney’s Descendants, Blue Bloods, Alex and Eliza and Witches of East End (also an hourlong drama on Lifetime). Her Hallmark movies include Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe (based on her novel); Sense, Sensibility and Snowmen; Christmas in Angel Falls; and Angel Falls: A Novel Holiday. Her books are published in over thirty countries and translated in twenty languages. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.

About Imani Jade Powers

Imani is an actor and screenwriter who has appeared on and off Broadway, and has narrated about 120 audiobooks of all genres, mostly in the YA, fantasy/sci-fi, mystery, and non-fiction genres. She speaks French, has great facility with accents (specifically regional UK accents) as she's lived in Paris, London, and New York, and is constantly working on mastering new dialects. Her narration style is conversational, intimate, and warm and she’s been the recipient of an Audie and three Earphones Awards. She's been an avid reader since her childhood, so to get to marry her two loves of performing and reading in narration is a dream!


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gavin

I spent a week reading all of the Goodreads Choice Awards finalists in the Middle Grade category, complete with my entire thoughts on each book, and which books I think should have won and in what order. You can check out my vlog here: [URL not allowed]......more

Imagine being 12 years old and rushing to the bookstore on release day to FINALLY get the final book in your favorite series only to find out the book mysteriously wasn’t published. And on your way home, you’re almost killed by one of the creatures from that same series. Oh that’s just the life of F......more

Goodreads review by Darlene

The first clue that Filomena Jefferson-Cho finds that something is wrong is when the thirteenth book in her favorite series fails to arrive at the bookstore as promised. She is disappointed, to say the least. But when characters from the series start following her, she is downright scared. Does Filo......more

Goodreads review by Kate

The plot is cute, but I hated the writing style. The rhymes were bad and the narration, written in the present tense, was cumbersome. It completely pulled me out of the story every time the author switched from large chunks of dialogue, written in the past tense, to narration, written in the present......more

I listened to an audiobook and seem to think it would have been better in print. The narrator did a fine job of projecting the different characters, but somehow I felt that something was missing to get the flavor of the story. The plot isn't complicated and what made the story interesting is the re-i......more