The June Boys, Court Stevens
The June Boys, Court Stevens
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The June Boys

Author: Court Stevens

Narrator: McKenzie Fetters, Gabe Wicks, Court Stevens, Rick Jones, Ruta Sepetys

Unabridged: 8 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 03/03/2020


Synopsis

This audiobook edition includes:The full-length, stand-alone Young Adult suspense novelA bonus scene with one of the Gemini Thief survivorsA Q&A between Court Stevens and Ruta Sepetys, New York Times bestselling author of Fountains of SilenceFrom award-winning and highly acclaimed author Court Stevens comes a gripping, emotional story of small towns, rumors, and thirteen missing boys.The Gemini Thief could be anyone.For nearly a decade the Gemini Thief, a serial kidnapper who abducts three boys on June 1st, has terrorized Tennessee. The June Boys being held captive endure thirteen months of being stolen, hidden, observed, and fed before they are released, unharmed, by their masked captor. The Thief is a pro, managing to elude authorities while abducting over twelve boys over the past ten years. No one knows why—but they do know they don’t want to be next.Now Thea Delacroix has reason to believe the Gemini Thief has taken a thirteenth victim: her cousin, Aulus.But the twisted game begins to change: one of the kidnapped boys turns up dead. With the help of her best friends and her boyfriend Nick, Thea is determined to find the Gemini Thief and the remaining boys before it’s too late. Only she’s beginning to wonder something sinister, something repulsive, something unbelievable, and yet, not impossible:What if someone she knows is the Gemini Thief?Praise for The June Boys:“Stunning twists and turns. Hang on tight.” —Ruta Sepetys, international bestselling author“Not only a terrifying story of the missing, but a heartbreaking, hopeful journey through the darkness.” —Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author of The Last House Guest“A gripping suspense that hooked me from the first sentence.” —Colleen Coble, USA TODAY bestselling author of One Little Lie and the Lavender Tides series

About Court Stevens

Court Stevens grew up among rivers, cornfields, churches, and gossip in the small-town South. She is a former adjunct professor, youth minister, and Olympic torchbearer. These days she writes coming-of-truth fiction and is the director of Warren County Public Library in Kentucky. She has a pet whale named Herman, a bandsaw named Rex, and several novels with her name on the spine: Last Girl Breathing, We Were Kings, The June Boys, Faking Normal, The Lies About Truth, the e-novella The Blue-Haired Boy, Dress Codes for Small Towns, and Four Three Two One. Find Court online at CourtneyCStevens.com; Instagram: @quartland; Facebook: @CourtneyCStevens; X: @quartland


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on November 29, 2020

What an astonishing, captivating, complex, dark, dazzling, deep, dreary story! After you read its blurb you may imagine how a book’s story can affect you so deeply and put your emotions everywhere. Not easy to read, absorb for every reader! There is a Gemini thief out there taking three boys and hold......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on February 24, 2020

I have read and loved a few Courtney Stevens books in the past so I expected to feel the same about this one, but that was so not the case. This was.. extremely disappointing :( The story was SO hard to follow and I kept tripping myself up because it is told in a somewhat nonlinear format but I didn......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on February 17, 2020

Well, that's disappointing. Part of the reason this was so difficult to read is because of the same issue that multiple other readers stated in their reviews-the formatting of this e-arc is almost unreadable. There are random pictures inserted in the middle of words, creating a jumbled mess and disru......more

Goodreads review by Lucy Tonks on March 13, 2021

"You don’t owe your truths to everyone." What the hell just happened here? My thoughts in this book are literally everywhere. And after two weeks since I read this book, they still are. Where do I even begin talking about this book? Every year, the Gemini Thief takes three boys from June 1st until Ju......more

Goodreads review by Dannii on March 25, 2021

Every June, on the first day of the month, a boy is taken. Every June, on the last day of the month and a whole year later, a boy is given back. This concept intrigued me and yet I remained a little underwhelmed by its execution. The finger was pointed at the correct perpetrator a little under halfw......more