What We Saw at Night, Jacquelyn Mitchard
What We Saw at Night, Jacquelyn Mitchard
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What We Saw at Night

Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard

Narrator: Rebecca Gibel

Unabridged: 7 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/08/2013

Synopsis

In a small hospital town, a trio of teens rebel against their fatal diagnosis of XP, an allergy to sunlight, with late night Parkour, an extreme sport of daredevil risks. On a random summer night, while scaling a building like any other, the three happen to peer into an empty apartment and glimpse an older man with what looks like a dead girl. A game of cat-and-mouse ensues that escalates through the underground world of hospital confinement, off-the-grid sports, and forbidden love. Allie, who can never see the light of day, discovers she’s the lone key to stopping a human monster.

About Jacquelyn Mitchard

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard has written ten previous novels for adults; six young adult novels; four children’s books; a memoir, Mother Less Child; and a collection of essays, The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship. Her first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was the inaugural selection of Oprah’s Book Club and later adapted for a feature film. Mitchard is a frequent lecturer and a professor of fiction and creative nonfiction at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier. She lives on Cape Cod with her husband and their nine children. Find out more at JacquelynMitchard.com.

About Rebecca Gibel

Rebecca Gibel (a.k.a. Kasha Kensington) is a audiobook narrator and stage actress who has performed in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Camelot (IRNE Award nomination), Urinetown (Denver Post Ovation Award nomination), and Othello. She won the Denver Post Readers’ Choice Award for Best Year by an Actress. She is a graduate of the Brown University Trinity Rep MFA acting program, where she was the Stephen Sondheim Fellow.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on March 13, 2015

What We Saw at Nightshould never have made my favorites list. It probably shouldn’t even be on my “like” list, because it just had somany problems. I didn’t like two of the main characters for most of the book (and still didn’t like one of them after I finished the book), I had to find the answer......more

Quotes

“Dangerously addictive, breathtakingly beautiful, terminally awesome.” Lauren Myracle, New York Times bestselling author

“What We Saw at Night is an engaging blend of real-world drama involving a life-and-death illness and a whodunit thriller. Imagine John Green’s recent The Fault in Our Stars in a mash-up with a Nancy Drew mystery. Plus some roof jumping and wall scaling.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“A contemporary thriller whose tension and excitement are tempered by coincidences, near misses, and credulity-stretching assumptions.” Publishers Weekly

“What We Saw at Night combines exhilaration, fatalism, and mystery in a gripping novel.” BookPage

“The fast pace is set from the beginning with Juliet’s dazzling jump across the buildings…Recommended for readers who enjoy a unique twist on realistic fiction.” VOYA

“This latest from Mitchard is quickly paced and intricately plotted, with flares of humor cobbled into the dialogue…The suspense will keep [readers] engrossed.” Kirkus Reviews

Awards

  • Indie Next List
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