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The Grace Year

By: Kim Liggett
Narrated by: Emily Shaffer
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Brought to you by Penguin.

The resistance starts here...

No one speaks of the grace year.
It's forbidden.
We're told we have the power to lure grown men from their beds, make boys lose their minds, and drive the wives mad with jealousy. That's why we're banished for our sixteenth year, to release our magic into the wild before we're allowed to return to civilization.
But I don't feel powerful.
I don't feel magical.

Tierney James lives in an isolated village where girls are banished at sixteen to the northern forest to brave the wilderness - and each other - for a year. They must rid themselves of their dangerous magic before returning purified and ready to marry - if they're lucky.

It is forbidden to speak of the grace year, but even so every girl knows that the coming year will change them - if they survive it...

The Grace Year is The Handmaid's Tale meets Lord of the Flies - a feminist dystopia about a young woman trapped in an oppressive society, fighting to take control of her own life.

©2019 Kim Liggett (P)2019 Penguin Audio Dark Fantasy Dystopian Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction

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Love this narrator she does such a great job with excellent expression and tones of voice.

The prose in this unique story is elegant and very emotive!

Highly recommend this read

Right up my street! Dystopian Genre is my favourite

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This was so unexpected and so, so
good! Narrator did an excellent job as well.

So good

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Loved it so much left wanting more no needing more
Needs to be a 2nd ASAP lol
Narrator was amazing 😻

Amazing

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Read it in one day it was so good, loved the Teirny & hated Kirsten ♥️

The story and narrator were fantastic

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Loved this. The story was so unusual and had lots of great twists. Great ending too. Thought at first it might be too young-adult, but teens and adults will enjoy it equally!

Engaging and exciting

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Really enjoyed listening to this, great performance and interesting concept. So many repeated phrases though!

Great book

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fairly entertaining story, narrator not bad although I'm not sure why she gave the main antagonist the most annoying valley girl accent of all time.

Overall entertaining

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This book is a interesting comment on the relationships between women. It delves deeply oppression and adversity can put us against one another or bring us together.
All the while being a complete page turner! I put it on when I went to bed and ended up staying up all night to finish it. Spectacular.

A YA handmaid’s tale

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Loved this book! So incredibly amazing! I really do wish there were more! Dystopian lovers dream in a book!

Absolutely incredible!

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The concept of young women having to suffer in order to purge their wickedness is taken to a brand new level. Up until the very end I wasn't sure if this is a sophisticated analogy, a magical story, or both - and I didn't care.
The pacing was stuttered at times, but still I spent every (rare) spare moment listening. The ending was a bit too perfect, so it's bittersweet.

it's a new Hunger Games

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