The Completionist, Siobhan Adcock
The Completionist, Siobhan Adcock
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The Completionist

Author: Siobhan Adcock

Narrator: Jacques Roy

Unabridged: 9 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/19/2018


Synopsis

One of Entertainment Weekly’s “10 prescient new feminist dystopias to read after The Handmaid’s Tale”; one of the “11 Best Summer Books Of 2018” by Women's Health; this “perfect beach book” (Entertainment Report) follows the search for a missing sister in a near-future world where infertility has produced a dangerous underground.

“Find her. You need to keep looking, no matter what. I’m afraid of what might’ve happened to her. You be afraid too.” After months of disturbing behavior, Gardner Quinn has vanished. Her older sister Fredericka is desperate to find her, but Fred is also pregnant—miraculously so, in a near-future America struggling with infertility. So she entrusts the job to their brother, Carter.

Carter, young but jaded, is in need of an assignment. Just home from war, his search for his sister is a welcome distraction from mysterious physical symptoms he can’t ignore, not to mention his increasing escape into the bottom of a glass.

Carter’s efforts to find Gardner lead him into a desperate underworld, where he begins to grasp the risks she took on as a Nurse Completionist. But his investigation also leads back to their father, a veteran of a decades-long war just like Carter himself, who may be concealing a painful truth, one that neither Carter nor Fredericka is ready to face.

“Fans of dystopian novels will love Siobhan Adcock’s disturbing speculation on just how bad things can get when resources are rare and personal lives are heavily policed” (Booklist). In the tradition of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Completionist is speculative fiction at its very best: it will “transport you to an entirely new world” (PopSugar) while revealing our own world in bold and unexpected ways.

About Siobhan Adcock

Siobhan Adcock is the author of the novels, The Barter and The Completionist. Her short fiction has been published in Triquarterly and The Massachusetts Review, and her essays and humor writing have appeared in Salon, The Daily Beast, and Huffington Post. She lives with her husband and daughter in Brooklyn.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary on June 26, 2018

⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5 The Completionist by Siobhan Adcock was such a strange book, and I think for that reason alone it will be pretty unforgettable. The Completionist is about Carter Quinn, a 24-year-old Marine back from an ongoing war against a rebel group. The place he lives is now called New Chicago and the......more

Goodreads review by Amy on June 23, 2018

2.5/5 Dystopian fiction can be a tricky genre for me, it either works incredibly well or it just flat out doesn’t most of the time and The Completionist sounded like it would be one that worked well for me. On the whole it was excellent and there were many aspects that I enjoyed, but I had enough iss......more

Goodreads review by Bandit on January 30, 2018

There has been a good amount of female authored dystopian fiction lately concentrated on babies. Fertility appears to be a fertile subject. Certainly a relevant one in these days of increasingly terrifying politics, but still it seems so gender specific, maybe a case of write what you know or even w......more

Goodreads review by Marjorie on June 07, 2018

In an America in the near future, there is little natural water and most is artificially engineered. The people have technological portals embedded in their skin, which keep track of their every movement. There’s a fertility crisis and those women who do become naturally pregnant are considered mira......more

Goodreads review by Eric on January 24, 2019

This book had such promise. A technologically oppressive post-collapse successor-state to the US sends troops to the ruins of the West Coast to protect shipments of engineered water that is having a direct effect on birth rates, leading to a suffocating social and economic apparatus that buries women......more