Best of All Worlds, Kenneth Oppel
Best of All Worlds, Kenneth Oppel
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Best of All Worlds

Author: Kenneth Oppel

Narrator: Barrett Leddy

Unabridged: 12 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/03/2025

Synopsis

From award-winning author Kenneth Oppel a startling, can't-wait-to-talk-about-it-with-someone novel that defies genre to create a survival thriller unlike any you've read before. For fans of Leave the World Behind, A.S. King, M.T. Anderson, and Margaret Atwood.Xavier Oaks doesn't particularly want to go to the cabin with his dad and his dad's pregnant new wife, Nia. But family obligations are family obligations, and it's only for a short time. So he leaves his mom, his brother, and his other friends behind for a week in the woods. Only... one morning he wakes up and the house isn't where it was before. It's like it's been lifted and placed... somewhere else.When Xavier, his dad, and Nia go explore, they find they are inside a dome, trapped. And there's no one else around...Until, three years later, another family arrives.Is there any escape? Is there a reason they are stuck where they are? Different people have different answers -- and those different answers inexorably lead to tension, strife, and sacrifice.In this masterpiece, award-winning author Kenneth Oppel builds to a heart-stopping pitch in drawing a story that feels very much of our moment, where our very human choices collectively lead to humanity's eventual fate.

About Kenneth Oppel

Kenneth Oppel is the author of numerous books for young readers. His award-winning Silverwing trilogy has sold over a million copies worldwide and been adapted as an animated TV series and stage play. Airborn won a Michael L. Printz Honor Book Award and the Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award for children’s literature; its sequel, Skybreaker, was a New York Times bestseller and was named Children’s Novel of the Year by the London Times. He is also the author of Half Brother, This Dark Endeavor, Such Wicked Intent, and The Boundless. Born on Canada’s Vancouver Island, he has lived in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, Canada; in England and Ireland; and now resides in Toronto with his wife and children. Visit him at KennethOppel.ca.

Reviews

Goodreads review by coty ☆ on March 28, 2025

Thanks to NetGalley and Scholastic for a chance to read an ARC; all opinions are my own One of the worst reading experiences is a great introduction to a story that only loses itself immediately afterward, and BEST OF ALL WORLDS is the most recent example for me. We don't tread much new ground regard......more

Goodreads review by Brandy on February 10, 2025

Welcome to THE DOME dun dun dun SUMMARY: We follow Xavier Oak, a 13 year old boy with a blended family. He is currently on a summer trip with his father and pregnant stepmother at their lake cottage. He is NOT happy with this as he wanted to stay home with his mother and brother and play D&D with notab......more

Goodreads review by D. B. Grace on February 16, 2025

Well, this was an interesting little sci-fi read. A teenager and his blended family are on vacation by the lake. When they wake up, the lake is gone and they find themselves alone on a curiously contained farm. Is it a fever dream? Alien abduction? A parallel universe? A government conspiracy? They h......more

Goodreads review by Jaclyn on February 10, 2025

An extremely thought-provoking read tackling concepts both youth and adults are struggling with now more than ever. How do we know what we know, how do we communicate with those who have different truths than us, how do we know what is right, what is wrong, or what can only be accepted as unknown? U......more

Goodreads review by LittleBookLoves on April 13, 2025

The plot of Best of All Worlds was interesting, which was why I was interested to read this story. Honestly, I assumed it would have some similarities to Under the Dome by Stephen King solely based on the description. Unfortunately, this story was lackluster. The story is solely told from Xavier's p......more

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