Questland, Carrie Vaughn
Questland, Carrie Vaughn
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Questland

Author: Carrie Vaughn

Narrator: Erin Bennett

Unabridged: 9 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 06/22/2021


Synopsis

""Questland is a thrill ride . . . Richly imagined, action-packed, maximum fun."" — Charles Yu, New York Times bestselling author of Interior ChinatownYOU FIND YOURSELF IN A MAZE FULL OF TWISTY PASSAGES . . .Literature professor Dr. Addie Cox is living a happy, if sheltered, life in her ivory tower when Harris Lang, the famously eccentric billionaire tech genius, offers her an unusual job. He wants her to guide a mercenary strike team sent to infiltrate his island retreat off the northwest coast of the United States. Addie is puzzled by her role on the mission until she understands what Lang has built: Insula Mirabilis, an isolated resort where tourists will one day pay big bucks for a convincing, high-tech-powered fantasy-world experience, complete with dragons, unicorns, and, yes, magic.Unfortunately, one of the island's employees has gone rogue and activated an invisible force shield that has cut off all outside communication. A Coast Guard cutter attempting to pass through the shield has been destroyed. Suspicion rests on Dominic Brand, the project’s head designer—and Addie Cox's ex-boyfriend. Lang has tasked Addie and the mercenary team with taking back control of the island at any cost.But Addie is wrestling demons of her own—and not the fantastical kind. Now, she must navigate the deadly traps of Insula Mirabilis as well as her own past trauma. And no d20, however lucky, can help Addie make this saving throw.“Gamers rejoice! Carrie Vaughn has conjured up a fun and fast-paced story filled with elves, d20s, and Monty Python riffs.” — Monte Cook, ENnie Award-winning creator of the Numenera roleplaying game

About Carrie Vaughn

Carrie Vaughn survived her air force brat childhood and managed to put down roots in Colorado. Her first book, Kitty and the Midnight Hour, launched a popular series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk-radio advice show. She is also the author of Voices of Dragons, her debut novel for teen readers. Ms. Vaughn lives in Colorado.


Reviews

Goodreads review by rebecca | velvet opus on July 06, 2021

Westworld meets Jurassic Park... Unicorns. Dragons. Elves. These are a few of my favourite things. I love fantasy and literature and all those things rolled into one so Questland, about a literature professor sent on a quest to take back a fantasy island seemed like an actual dream. It wasn't quite w......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on January 15, 2021

Carrie Vaughns trek into LitRPG territory is a solid run even if it feels like a half-attempt to legitimize the sub-genre by giving it fairly extensive SF roots, a real-world base, and economic "reasons". Of course, most of the LitRPGs I've read don't bother with any of that. They just go straight in......more

Goodreads review by Craig on August 07, 2021

This was a fun, fast read, but really not as good as I expected. It's something of a blend of Crichton's West World or Jurassic Park with Dream Park by Niven and Barnes. (As many of the other reviews have said, but true nonetheless.) There are many genre pop culture nods, some subtle and some not so......more

Goodreads review by Mary on April 05, 2022

Our narrator is a college professor in literature who is called in to help a team penetrating an island where a magical theme park is being built with futuristic tech, and which is cut off from the world. Despite being the survivor of a shooting with PTSD. In part because of the literary elements, but......more