Stranger Things Suspicious Minds, Gwenda Bond
Stranger Things Suspicious Minds, Gwenda Bond
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Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds
The First Official Stranger Things Novel

Bestseller

Author: Gwenda Bond

Narrator: Kristen Sieh

Unabridged: 8 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/05/2019


Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • If you think you know the truth behind Dr. Brenner’s experiments at Hawkins Laboratory, prepare to have your mind turned Upside Down in the first official Stranger Things novel—“the prequel story that fans have been waiting for” (Kirkus Reviews).

It’s the summer of 1969, and the shock of conflict reverberates through the youth of America. As a student at a quiet college campus in the heartland of Indiana, Terry Ives couldn’t be farther from the front lines of Vietnam or the protests in Washington.
 
But the world is changing, and Terry isn’t content to watch. When word gets around about an important government experiment in the small town of Hawkins, she signs on as a test subject for the project, code-named MKULTRA. The remote lab, deep in the woods, contains a mystery Terry is determined to uncover.
 
Behind the walls of Hawkins National Laboratory—and the piercing gaze of its director, Dr. Martin Brenner—lurks a conspiracy greater than Terry could have ever imagined. To face it, she’ll need the help of her fellow test subjects.
 
Amid the rising tensions of the new decade, Terry Ives and Martin Brenner have begun a different kind of war—one where the human mind is the battlefield.

About The Author

Gwenda Bond writes YA and children’s fiction, among other things. Her novels include the Lois Lane series (Fallout, Double Down, Triple Threat), which brings the iconic comic book character front and center, and the Cirque American series (Girl on a Wire, Girl Over Paris, Girl in the Shadows), about daredevil heroines who discover magic and mystery lurking under the big top. She and her husband, Christopher Rowe, also co-write a middle-grade series, The Supernormal Sleuthing Service. Bond’s nonfiction writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Locus, and many other publications. She has an MFA in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky, with her husband and their unruly pets. There are rumors she escaped from a screwball comedy, and she might have a journalism degree because of her childhood love of Lois Lane.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Matthew on September 22, 2019

3 to 3.5 stars Are you a fan of Stranger Things? Have you seen at least a season of Stranger Things? Have you heard enough about Stranger Things from your friends or seen enough about it online that you think you understand what it is about? If your answer is no, step slowly and quietly away from this r......more

Sooooo....okay, I'm a big fan of Stranger Things. Naturally, I crave more while waiting impatiently for volume 2 to release. Which is why I decided to read some of the books. I will say this, if you are a fan, you get a bit more information into the past with Brenner and the lab. Leaving it at that......more

Goodreads review by exorcismemily on February 08, 2019

"What a beautiful little piece of evil." Suspicious Minds is a prequel to the Stranger Things show, and the story focuses on Eleven's mom, Terry Ives. It's set in the late '60s / early '70s in Indiana, and whether this is a Stranger Things book or not, I found it to be an easy story to get invested i......more

Goodreads review by samantha on January 14, 2020

Very interesting storyline. I love the show and after rewatching all 3 seasons for the 7th time I wanted something new from this world so I looked to see if they had any books I was so excited to see this. I get the ebook and read it in about 48 hours. It was so fun and interesting to read about I l......more

Goodreads review by Josh on March 01, 2019

I love the Stranger Things TV series and was very excited to see that the universe was being expanded to include a series of novels and comics with Suspicious Minds being the first official prequel novel published in February 2019. The themes that make the TV series so appealing are prevalent here th......more


Quotes

“You’re left hungry for more, but in the best way possible, as the book manages the balancing act between interconnected prequel and standalone story.”—Cinelinx
 
Suspicious Minds is the prequel story that fans have been waiting for.”Kirkus Reviews
 
“Highly recommended for those readers interested in expanding their knowledge of the Stranger Things’ universe, this book is also a dark and captivating story that will stick in the readers’ minds even if they are not fans of the franchise.”—The Unseen Library