A Peculiar Peril, Jeff VanderMeer
A Peculiar Peril, Jeff VanderMeer
List: $44.99 | Sale: $31.50
Club: $22.49

A Peculiar Peril

Author: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrator: Raphael Corkhill

Unabridged: 22 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/07/2020


Synopsis

A Peculiar Peril is a head-spinning epic about three friends on a quest to protect the world from a threat as unknowable as it is terrifying, from the Nebula Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer.

Jonathan Lambshead stands to inherit his deceased grandfather’s overstuffed mansion—a veritable cabinet of curiosities—once he and two schoolmates catalog its contents. But the three soon discover that the house is filled with far more than just oddities: It holds clues linking to an alt-Earth called Aurora, where the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley has stormed back to life on a magic-fueled rampage across a surreal, through-the-looking-glass version of Europe replete with talking animals (and vegetables).

Swept into encounters with allies more unpredictable than enemies, Jonathan pieces together his destiny as a member of a secret society devoted to keeping our world separate from Aurora. But as the ground shifts and allegiances change with every step, he and his friends sink ever deeper into a deadly pursuit of the profound evil that is also chasing after them.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

About Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer is the author of Hummingbird Salamander, the Borne novels (Borne, The Strange Bird, and Dead Astronauts), and The Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), the first volume of which won the Nebula Award and the Shirley Jackson Award and was adapted into a movie by Alex Garland. He speaks and writes frequently about issues relating to climate change as well as urban rewilding.

About Raphael Corkhill

Raphael Corkhill is an award-winning stage, screen and voice actor. Born and raised in the UK, Raphael graduated from Princeton University then gained his MFA in acting from the University of Southern California. Raphael’s film and television credits include the Warner Bros. feature The Goldfinch, independent TV pilot Manny, and Burning at Both Ends alongside Cary Elwes. His extensive voice credits include billion-dollar video game franchises: Uncharted 4 (BAFTA “Best Game” winner), The Elder Scrolls Online and Titanfall 2, as well as the recent blockbuster ESO: Morrowind. Raphael has narrated numerous titles for Macmillan including The Fallon Trilogy and his audiobook performances have been described by Publisher’s Weekly as “terrific.”


Reviews

Goodreads review by luce (cry bebè's back from hiatus) on August 27, 2021

| | blog | tumblr | ko-fi | | EDIT: If you are a Jeff VanderMeer devotee or if you thoroughly enjoyed A Peculiar Peril, I'm happy for you. My review is not a positive one (I know, how dare I?) so if you are the kind of reader who gets 'ruffled' when someone criticises a book they love, please skip......more

Goodreads review by Nicholas on February 25, 2022

That took for forever!! How to describe A Peculiar Peril, Jeff VanderMeer's YA debut? Well, this book is what would happen if The Chronicles of Narnia and Alice in Wonderland had a one-night stand with each other, but both of their drinks were spiked by Lemony Snicket. Then, night months later The Ch......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on June 27, 2021

There are, frankly, a plethora of great descriptive terms for this Vandermeer, and while it absolutely falls in the wonderful WEIRD category, I should mention that it is also charming as hell, adventuresome, original, quirky, quirky, and sometimes silly when it isn't a tentacular mess for every pers......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on April 12, 2020

I received this ARC from Jeff after a wonderously weird trip my wife and I took to Tallahassee to a book signing at a brewery followed by a tour around his home. This preamble is not meant as some boast, but rather a confession on my part, as I'm not fully convinced that I didn't crash my car on the......more

Goodreads review by Trish on July 02, 2021

How to sum up such an impossibly great book? 16-year-old Jonathan is brought to England to his late grandfather's estate. He is told he can keep everything if he just catalogues his gradfather's possessions. Naturally, that is just a ruse. Because within the estate lies one of the secret entrances to......more


Awards

  • Locus Awards - Nominee
  • Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year