The Unfamiliar Garden, Benjamin Percy
The Unfamiliar Garden, Benjamin Percy
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The Unfamiliar Garden

Author: Benjamin Percy

Narrator: Will Collyer, Mela Lee

Unabridged: 7 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 01/04/2022

Synopsis

The night the sky fell, Jack and Nora Abernathy’s daughter vanished in the woods. And Mia’s disappearance broke her parents’ already fragile marriage. Unable to solve her own daughter’s case, Nora lost herself in her work as a homicide detective. Jack became a shell of a man; his promising career as a biologist crumbling alongside the meteor strikes that altered weather patterns and caused a massive drought.It isn’t until five years later that the rains finally return to nourish Seattle. In this period of sudden growth, Jack uncovers evidence of a new parasitic fungus, while Nora investigates several brutal, ritualistic murders. Soon they will be drawn together by a horrifying connection between their discoveries—partnering to fight a deadly contagion as well as the government forces that know the truth about the fate of their daughter.Award-winning author Benjamin Percy delivers both a gripping science fiction thriller and a dazzling examination of a planet—and a marriage—that have broken.

About Benjamin Percy

BENJAMIN PERCY has won a Whiting Award, a Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, an NEA fellowship, and the iHeartRadio Award for Best Scripted Podcast. He is the author of the novels The Ninth Metal, The Unfamiliar Garden, The Dark Net, The Dead Lands, Red Moon, and The Wilding; three story collections; and an essay collection, Thrill Me. He also writes Wolverine and X-Force for Marvel Comics. He lives in Minnesota with his family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on June 19, 2021

I absolutely love feeling this gleeful after reading a novel. Wickedly gleeful, that is. First, let me get something out of the way. While the first novel in the series (The Ninth Metal) shares a common event with it -- the world-changing post-meteorite chaos -- it only does so obliquely and both are......more

Goodreads review by Octavia on December 30, 2021

This book was so weird! It starts fast paced and exciting with the apocalypse coming, but then it turns out the apocalypse drags and also maybe there's alien mushrooms?! Also, there's a murder mystery serial killer side plot with a cult! AND THEN there's a whole other plot about a cop's missing daugh......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on January 01, 2022

The Comet Cycle, a three-part look at the effects of a devastating meteor fall, began with the 2021 release of The Ninth Metal (reviewed here). The premise of this trilogy is chilling: A comet passes by earth, close enough that people around the globe gather to celebrate and enjoy the beautiful sigh......more

Goodreads review by hope on April 13, 2023

okay i don't understand....why this book is getting so many good reviews. i gave it two stars just because i thought the fungi parts were cool and i enjoyed how like visceral and gross the fungi body horror was, because y'know i'm reading this book FOR the fungi body horror - but everything else was......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on March 30, 2022

A fast, crazy ride! I'll never look at mushrooms the same again, haha. The parents of a missing child get up close and personal with an extraterrestrial fungus that turns people into killers. A smooth mix of mystery, thriller and sci-fi; and only about 150 pages.......more

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